UNDERSTANDING THE PAST, BUILDING THE FUTURE
43 years of promoting the safety of women, children, and youth in the Alberni Valley.
Children's Supportive Counselling
P.E.A.C.E. Program: Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling & Empowerment.
T: 250-736-0706
C: 250-206-1108
E: celines@sagehavensociety.org
Our children’s counsellor provides individual supportive counselling and group education for children and youth, ages 3 through 18 years, who have been exposed to family violence and other relationship violence.
The primary goals of the program are:
- To support children/youth to feel safe, respected, valued, and heard
- To support parents/caregivers to feel respected, empowered, confident, and effective
- To support children/youth and their parents/caregivers establish a healthy relationship and ways of communicating
- To reduce isolation, and to let children/youth know that they are not alone
- To identify and develop social skills and strategies
- To educate non-violent ways of resolving conflict
- To support emotional health and self-esteem
- To view emotions and responses not as pathological, but rather as a natural response to traumatic events.