Family Counselling and Support - For Children and Youth at Risk
Caregiver Support, Child Services, Family / Parenting, Housing / Shelter, Indigenous Services, Mental Health - Adult & Senior, Mental Health - Child & Youth, and Youth Services
Provided by Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
Provides family counselling, programs, and support for children, youth, and families at risk of involvement, involved in, or affected by the justice system.
Growing Great Kids: An empathy-based, curriculum led parenting program for new and expecting mothers that covers complex concepts such as secure attachments, parental empathy, brain science and solution-focused skill-building strategies into easily understood highly interactive modules.
JustKids: Aimed at mitigating the long-term negative impacts of parental incarceration through an umbrella of programs, educational initiatives and research.
Future Bright Program: Offers low income families free, hands-on assistance in accessing federal and provincial grants for their children’s post-secondary education – totaling up to $3,200.
Burnaby Integrated Family Program: Intensive counselling helps families stay together or reunite after a separation. Through individualized or family therapy, parent education and training EFry gives families in crisis the support and tools necessary to make home a safe and caring place to be.
New Westminster Integrated Family Program: Clinical Counsellors see families in their homes, or at office locations in each city. The counsellors provide short term family counselling to support families address serious conflict issues and intimate partner violence with the goal of lowering the risk to the child, of having their child apprehended.
Am’ut Aboriginal Youth Program: A culture-based, full-time attendance program helping female Indigenous youth change the direction of their lives by learning to make healthy choices and develop new skills.
Christmas Holiday Programs: EFry brings the holidays to nearly 2,000 people each year through our Christmas dinner, JustKids lunch with Santa and in-prison celebrations.
Spring and Summer Camps: EFry brings the holidays to nearly 2,000 people each year through our Christmas dinner, JustKids lunch with Santa and in-prison celebrations.
Camp Counsellor Training and Employment Program: Children ageing out of Blue Sky Summer Camp are provided with the opportunity to receive job training and employment as camp counsellors. This provides older teens with valuable job experience and income, as well as support continuity for themselves and positive role modelling for younger campers.
Saturday Club: When Blue Sky Camps are not in session, children aged six to 15 enjoy day-long supporting activity programs similar to a day camp.
Elizabeth Gurney House: Located in New Westminster, Elizabeth Gurney House is a temporary shelter home for 12 homeless women and their children. Support workers provide awake around the clock support and management of the site for residents providing assistance and support to make plans to address their immediate crisis needs and housing plans. Staff and residents participate in the day-to-day living tasks involved in communal living.
604-545-0437 (Head Office)
Toll Free: 1-888-879-9593
Public email: info@elizabethfry.com
Website: https://efry.com/we-can-help/programs...
402 E. Columbia Street, New Westminster, British Columbia, V3L 3X1
Cost: No cost
Associated Programs/Services
Also offered by Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver:
Just the closest matches listed. Click to see more!- Housing and Support - For women recovering from addiction or transitioning out of the justice system
- Parenting and Support Programs - For women with children in the justice system
- Emergency Shelter and Supported Housing - For women with addictions and/or at risk of homelessness
Availability
Service area: Anmore, Bowen Island, Burnaby, Coquitlam, Delta, Langley, Lions Bay, Maple Ridge, New Westminster, North Vancouver, Pitt Meadows, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Richmond, Surrey, Vancouver, West Vancouver, White Rock + show cities
Service Types Provided
Caregiver Support
Child Services
Family / Parenting
Housing / Shelter
Indigenous Services
Mental Health - Adult & Senior
Mental Health - Child & Youth
Ways to Access
- Provided 1:1 in-person
- Provided at multiple locations
- Provided in a group in-person
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