About Family Resilience Program - WJS
WJS Canada provides social services to children, youth, adults and families facing difficulties. We take a personalized, trauma-informed approach to care in an environment of cultural respect and support.
This is a voluntary program that supports families with children 0-18 years of age. We offer in-home family support; however, it can also be in your community, at a coffee shop or the library, and over the phone or even virtual at the family’s request. This voluntary program focuses on various areas but is not limited to: improving parental capacity, communication skills, sibling rivalry, conflict resolution, the understanding of different parental styles, child behavioral issues, positive strategies with difficult behaviors, co-parenting for separating or already separated families, blended family cohesion, parent-teen mediation, mental health concerns, positive strategies with difficult behaviors, enhancing family connection, school concerns, advocacy/working collaboratively with other services providers (this may include accompany participants to appointments with other service providers, emotional and personal support for parents, referrals to other resources and/or supports or collaborative transition planning from one program to another as well as aftercare supports to ensure that families are continuing down their path of success.
This program is free to all clients, and referrals can be from various organizations or self-referrals. At WJS we can also meet with youth separately, however our style of working with youth may be different than other organizations that are working with youth. We do not look at ourselves as youth workers but as Family Support Coaches helping youth accomplish their goals and ultimately be part of their family.
Therefore, should we get a referral that list the youth from ages 12-18 as the individual needing support, we will conduct an assessment to ensure that a holistic approach is used to work with the youth, but with family participation to support the goals. As a whole, we very much believe the involvement of family can often be the key for the youths’ success. Our goal is to ensure that youth are an active part of their family, so that they will have an opportunity to grow long and sustainable relationships with their families as they mature into adulthood. The parent will join the program in at and/or around the 3-month mark to work on goals for themselves, with meetings alternating youth, caregiver and youth, caregiver, until the youth has accomplished their goal(s) and/or the parent has the ability and desire to continue to take over the support of their youths’ goal(s).
This program is free to all clients, and referrals can be from various organizations or self-referrals. At WJS we can also meet with youth separately, however our style of working with youth may be different than other organizations that are working with youth. We do not look at ourselves as youth workers but as Family Support Coaches helping youth accomplish their goals and ultimately be part of their family.
Therefore, should we get a referral that list the youth from ages 12-18 as the individual needing support, we will conduct an assessment to ensure that a holistic approach is used to work with the youth, but with family participation to support the goals. As a whole, we very much believe the involvement of family can often be the key for the youths’ success. Our goal is to ensure that youth are an active part of their family, so that they will have an opportunity to grow long and sustainable relationships with their families as they mature into adulthood. The parent will join the program in at and/or around the 3-month mark to work on goals for themselves, with meetings alternating youth, caregiver and youth, caregiver, until the youth has accomplished their goal(s) and/or the parent has the ability and desire to continue to take over the support of their youths’ goal(s).
For more information, please contact Teri Campbell, Program Manager, at [email protected] or 587-990-2457
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