Donations:
Thank you to all the donations we have recieved in the first 6 months of 2011.
One such donation of $1,237 was recived from the Canadian Women's Foundation for Crossroads Women's Shelter & Resource Center . The donation was a portion of the proceeds from the seventh annual CWF Shelter from the storm campaing.Working with their parntners Winners and Home Sense and Roger's Media, the campain took place from April11 to May 8th, 2011. To learn more about the Shelter from the Storm, please visit www.shelterfromthestorm.ca
Fall Programs
Women's Support Group
Tuesday and Friday mornings at 10:30 am, weekly call to register:780-835-5550 must be 18, no childcare on premises
90 minutes of Becoming self-aware, Building Resillency and dealing with life issues making pro-active choices. We can change our lives by changing our thouhts throughempowerment and acceptance.
Carefully watch your thoughts, for they become your words.
Manage and watch your words, for they will become your actions.
Consider and judge your actions, for they become your habits.
Acknowledge and watch your habits, for they shall become your values.
Unerstand & embrace your vlues for they become your Destiny!
Anger Education& behavior managment classes: 8 weeks
must be 18 yrs of age, no childcare on premises,
The first step to managing anger approriately in our personal relationships, is the identification of the mistaken attitudes & convictions that
pre-dispose us to being excessivly angry in the first place! Learn to de-stress by understanding your anger cues & triggers.
People are not born with angry genes.
Violent behavior is often modeled within the family, community or media
Violence does not usually occur because of a lack of caring...
It is often a result of feeling out of control; the violence becomes a way of regaining some control.
Positive Disipline Parenting Workshop: January10,2012 from 7-9 pm ,
Basement of the Fairview St Helen's Anglican Church Every Tuesday night, for 4 weeks
no child care on premises, Positive Disipline, What it is and how to do it. (Joan E. Durrant, Ph.D.)
"Nothing is more important inthe world today than the nurturing that children receive in the first three years of life, for it is in these earliest years that the capacities for trust, empathy and affection originate. If the emtional needs of the child are not met during these years, permanent emtional damage can result" - Elliott Barker
Circle of Friends :
The Circle of Friends is an outreach program for youth. This program has the following objectives
and can facillitated to one or many at the same time.
- To recognize their own resilience
- To recognize behaviors that interfere with friendship.
- To identify friendship behaviors they would like to develop
- To learn new stratagies to deal effectively with kids that bully others
- To learn positive assertive skills and enhance self-esteem.
- To learn respect of self and others.