Teen and Young Adult (TAYA) Lounge
The program aims to empower and support the youth by providing basic needs, positive role modeling, information, and on-going assistance via case management, mentoring, group work, advocacy etc.
Protection Starts Here
The program provides continuity to the expansion of the training offering via the introduction of Darkness to Light’s “Recognising and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect” module and invests in ongoing capacity building initiatives by up-skilling the PSH Programme Coordinator through participation and certification of the Praesidium Guardian programme.
Family Support Program
The programme seeks to assist families in developing healthy stable supportive home environments by working with the family to set goals to get the youth back home and keeps the family together and providing assistance in accessing services and effective coordination among service providers.
Family Recource Center
HFC suppotrs the delivery of the intervention and preventative parenting services, addressing some of the barriers experienced by this vulnerable group, by meeting some of their basic needs though monthly stipends, securing sponsorship for free childcare and free transportation in order to attend parenting programs, therapeutic services, employment training and opportunities.
Child Abuse Intervention & Treatment Program
The program’s targets all children presenting to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Services. It aims to improve the efficiency of the diagnostic process by using standardized, validated instruments to screen for potentially co-morbid disorders in new patients, and to monitor treatment response at pre-determined intervals.
YMCA Prvent & Protect
The program aims to create a community that openly acknowledges the prevalence of child abuse and neglect.
Teen and Young Adult (TAYA) Lounge
Empower and support the youth by providing basic needs, positive role modeling, information, and on-going assistance via case management, mentoring, group work, advocacy etc.
Protection Starts Here
The project is intended to address the unchallenged social and cultural norms which protects perpetrators of violence against children within area shores via the implementation of the Darkness to Light public training schedule, the delivery of the policy development workshop, etc..
Family Support Program
The program assists families in developing healthy stable supportive home environments by working with the family to set goals to get the youth back home and keeping the family together, providing assistance in accessing services and effective coordination among service providers, etc.
Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Through the delivery of the intervention and preventative parenting services, FRC works diligently to support clients in addressing some of the barriers experienced by this vulnerable group, by meeting some of their basic needs though monthly stipends, securing sponsorship for free childcare and free transportation in order to attend parenting programs, therapeutic services, employment training and opportunities.
Child Abuse Intervention & Treatment Program
The program’s targets all children presenting to the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Services to improve the efficiency of the diagnostic process by using standardized, validated instruments to screen for potentially co-morbid disorders in new patients, and also to monitor treatment response at pre-determined intervals (individualized to the patient) using standardized, validated symptom measures to track progress and readily identify emerging concerns.
YMCA Prevent & Protect
The program aims to create a community that openly acknowledges the prevalence of child abuse and neglect and is equipped with the skills needed to ‘prevent and protect’ against child abuse and neglect.
TAYA Lounge
TAYA is the Crisis Centre's Teen and Young Adult lounge, a drop-in center that provides a safe space for at-risk youth; includes one 6-month grant for 2020-2021 grant year
Mobile Health & Wellness Checks for Vulnerable Children & Protection Starts Here
COVID-19 response program & virtual child abuse prevention training pilot project; includes two 6-month grant periods for 2020-2021 grant year
Habakkuk House: Sensory Room
Safe learning space where at-risk children with physical and mental disabilities can be with DCFS staff for learning, therapy and sensory activities; includes one 6-month grant for 2020-2021 grant year
Family Resource Centre (FRC)
Prevention/intervention services to address teenage behavioral, emotional and developmental problems by enhancing parents' skills and confidence; includes one 6-month grant for 2020-2021 grant year
COVID-19 Response to Vulnerable Groups
Needs assessment survey to better address material and service needs of vulnerable children with disabilities and their families; includes one 6-month grant for 2020-2021 grant year
Trauma Sensitive Approach to the Care and Education of Early Childhood & Group Home Residents
*An organisation-wide program; includes one 6-month grant
YMCA Prevent & Protect
Provides at-risk youth and families with social and emotional skills needed to navigate COVID-19 crisis and learn about child protection; includes one 6-month grant for 2020-2021 grant year