This 6 week group is intended to build and expand on the information provided in the PEACE Parent Orientation and to facilitate connections with other parents/caregivers. Each Session will be divided into two parts: 1) Understanding Impacts: provides a deeper look at how domestic violence can impact the development of children/youth and the roles of parents/caregivers. 2) Helping Children Heal: will provide parents/caregivers with strategies that can support their children in their healing journey.

Details: 

• This is a weekly group from Nov.6th to Dec. 11th, 2024 from 9:30 - 11:30 am

• Closed group - Registration Required

• Coffee, tea and light snacks provided

• No cost to participate

This camp offers children & youth, impacted by domestic violence offers valuable psycho-education to children opportunities for:

• Understanding what abuse is, that they are not alone, and that the violence is not their fault

• Identifying support networks and develop a safety plan

• Identifying their feelings and express them in healthy ways

• Recognizing their strengths and increase their self-confidence

Details:

• Weekly group running Nov. 5th - Dec. 10th, 2024 2:00pm to 4:00pm

• No Cost

• Intake must be completed prior to start of group - Book Now

Understanding Our Trauma is a 10 week group facilitating awareness and tools to understand and respond to healing from trauma. Some of the topics include trauma responses, managing triggers, emotional & body regulation, and methods of healing. The group features psycho-education, discussion and exercises. The practice activities provide tools for helping to regain a sense of empowerment over our own bodies and facilitate personal healing and growth.

DETAILS:

• 10 Week Group, running October 17 to December 19 2024, 9:30 - 12:00 pm

• No Cost

• Closed Group - Registration Required email: programs@cythera.ca for more information

Mindful practice is all about you – learning from your own experiences and observations about your own mind, your own body, and your own life. This fun and unique workshop offers mindfulness-based techniques that can help you find the strength you didn’t know you had to help keep stress from getting the best of you because what we do today matters most.

DETAILS:

• 10 week group, Tuesdays from October 15th - December 17th, 2024, 9:30 am - 11:30 am

• No Cost

• Closed group - Registration Required

When Love Hurts offers women a unique opportunity to evaluate their relationship and experience with abuse. Participants will build connections with other women and learn more about relationship abuse and its impacts on their lives. Registration is required.

12 Week Group, running September 25th - December 11th, 2024, 4:30 - 6:30 pm

• No Cost

• Closed Group - Registration Required

The Parent-Child Mother Goose Program® is a group experience for parents and their babies and young children. The program introduces adults and children to the pleasure and power of using rhymes, songs, and stories together.

Parents gain skills and confidence which can enable them to create positive family patterns during their children’s crucial early years. Children benefit from enjoyable, healthy early experiences with language and communication.

Details:

• No cost to participate

• For parents & Caregivers with infant children

• Registration Required

Let’s come together for a little “R & R”

Join us each morning in learning to understand the dynamics of abuse and how it impacts your mind and body (Recognition). We will discuss various topics including the Cycle of Abuse, impacts and myths and misconceptions about abuse. Stay for the afternoon where we will explore various mindful practices and coping strategies to soothe your soul (Restoration). This workshop is a hybrid of our Coping Skills and When Love Hurts groups.

DETAILS:

• 1 week workshop, from July 22 to July 26, 2024 - 9:30-4:00pm.

• No Cost

• Light snacks provided, must bring own lunch.

• Closed group -Registration FULL

This camp offers children & youth, impacted by domestic violence offers valuable psycho-education to children opportunities for:

• Understanding what abuse is, that they are not alone, and that the violence is not their fault

• Identifying support networks and develop a safety plan

• Identifying their feelings and express them in healthy ways

• Recognizing their strengths and increase their self-confidence

Details:

• Week long camp from July 15-19, 2024 2:00pm to 4:00pm

• No Cost

• Intake must be completed prior to start of group - Book Now

Join us Friday mornings, with your children ages 0-6, to play and connect with other families in the community. This group will offer unstructured play time and an opportunity to connect and share with other parents as well as our group facilitators.

This is a drop-in program, however we have designated a few registered spaces each week, registration opens Tuesdays each week.

Details:

• No cost to participate

• For parents & Caregivers with children ages 0-6 years

• Light snacks provided

• Registration Here

• Group Not Running On: July 19th and July 26th 2024.

Our Parents & Caregivers drop-in support group is a safe place to share experiences, make connections, find understanding and empower each other. Facilitated by PEACE Counsellors, this group provides support, psycho-education and advocacy.

Details: 

• Drop-in group, no registration required

• Coffee, tea and light snacks provided

• No cost to participate

• Group Not Running on: July 17th, 24th and August 28th, 2024.

Our Women’s drop-in support group is a safe place to share experiences, make connections, find understanding and empower each other. STV Facilitators provide support, psycho-education and advocacy.

Details: 

• Drop-in group, no registration required

• 9:30 am to 11:30 am every Tuesday unless otherwise noted

• Coffee, tea and light snacks provided

• No cost to participate

• Open to all women in the community

• Group not running on: July 16th and July 23rd 2024

Our Parents & Caregivers drop-in support group is a safe place to share experiences, make connections, find understanding and empower each other. Facilitated by PEACE Counsellors this group provides support, psycho-education and advocacy.

Details: 

• Drop-in group, no registration required

• Group runs each Wednesday from 9:30-11:30am

• Coffee, tea and light snacks provided

• No cost to participate

This group offers children & youth, impacted by domestic violence offers valuable psycho-education to children opportunities for:

• Understanding what abuse is, that they are not alone, and that the violence is not their fault

• Identifying support networks and develop a safety plan

• Identifying their feelings and express them in healthy ways

• Recognizing their strengths and increase their self-confidence

Details:

• Weekly group, from September 8th to October 13th, 2023 - 2:00-4:00pm

• No Cost

• Intake must be completed prior to start of group - Book Now