Outcomes Report 2018-2019
Staff provide services in a safe and supportive environment consisting of an accepting and protective atmosphere, and provide resource information to help women explore their options and define their goals. 350 women were served in 2018-2019
Language Spoken
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English
Punjabi
Hindi
Series1
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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INTERVENTION PROGRAM (DVIP) DVIP delivers specialized therapeutic intervention services to perpetrators of domestic violence that promotes the safety of their children and partners. Services to perpetrators of domestic violence involve thorough assessments of risk and safety planning, with relapse prevention plans for the perpetrators. The program provides one-to-one therapeutic intervention, a 17-week therapeutic group, Caring Dads, focused on parenting without violence or coercion, a 15-week therapeutic group, Men Transforming Our Relationships (MenTOR). In addition, this program also offers a bi-weekly drop-in group for individuals on a waitlist and bi-weekly drop-in group for individuals who have graduated from the Caring Dads. Therapeutic groups are co-facilitated by male and female group facilitators/trained clinical counsellors.
146 individual counselling session provided
“I learned a lot in the workshop, how to control your emotions and behaviour while going through some bad time.”
3 Caring Dad’s Groups (17 sessions) offered with 25 clients graduating from group 1 MenTOR group (15 sessions) offered with 7 clients finishing program
These 4 groups were offered over a 6-month period of time as this was the first year of the new program.
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