Services for Women Experiencing Abuse and Violence
Abuse / Neglect, Mental Health - Adult & Senior, and Victim Services
Provided by Quesnel Women's Resource Centre
Provides a variety of programs to support women who have experienced violence and abuse.
All programs offered at the Quesnel Woman’s Resource Center are free of charge. The following programs are offered:
- Stopping the Violence Counselling: Provides counselling services to groups or individual women who have experienced sexual assault, violence/abuse, or historical abuse.
- Drop in Support Service: The Drop-In Program plays an important role in the community by providing a safe haven for women needing connection and/or support with the challenges of life, which often coincide with the still present gender inequality issues in society and rising numbers of women experiencing isolation or abuse.
- Outreach Support Services: Provides counselling, advocacy, and support to people in our community. The program also provides information about resources in the community and facilitates peer support groups for women with a history of domestic abuse and violence.
- Respectful Relationships: This program runs in partnership with School District #28. The goal of this is to reduce the incidence of relationship violence in the lives of youth by helping them to develop skills and attitudes that are needed healthy and respectful relationships.
- Compass Counselling: Offers counselling to adult individuals, families, and couples who need support with mental health issues, stress, addictions, and other daily life challenges. We provide one on one counselling, group counselling, outreach counselling, and community integration services with the goal of reaching underserved populations. It is a program that has been developed to offer counselling services to people who may have difficulty accessing other counselling in the community. Offered In-person (individual/ group) counselling, by telephone and web-based counselling and in community and to rural and remote areas.
- Making Connections Program: The Making Connections Program is a facilitator training program designed to provide training in the areas of domestic violence, lateral violence and trauma to participants from Indigenous and rural and remote communities.
- Gender Equality Program: This program is designed to provide support and information regarding increasing capacity within specific groups, including: young women, teens, LGBTQ community, and women who have experienced separation and divorce. The project is delivered in workshops and groups, to provide information and strategies to address gender-based inequality.
250-992-8472
Public email: qwrc@shawcable.com
Website: https://www.qwrc.ca/programs-services
690 McLean Street, Quesnel, British Columbia
Monday - Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Service is available in English.
Cost: No cost
Availability
Service area: Quesnel
Service Types Provided
Abuse / Neglect
Mental Health - Adult & Senior
Victim Services
Ways to Access
- Provided 1:1 in-person
- Provided by phone
- Provided in a group in-person
The listing of this service in Pathways is not a recommendation or endorsement by Pathways.