Family Violence Initiative
COMPENDIUM OF PROMISING PRACTICES TO REDUCE VIOLENCE AND INCREASE SAFETY OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN IN CANADA
HISTORICAL LEGACY
Healing and Renewal of Family Roles and Responsibilities
- Program Name:
Wahbung Abinoonjiiag Inc.
- Organization/Community:
Wahbung Abinoonjiiag Inc.
- Location:
Winnipeg, Manitoba
- Website:
- Goals and Objectives:
To empower children and families to break the cycle of violence through holistic healing.
- Target Group Description:
Women and children
- Program Description:
Offers three core program sessions running twice a week for ten week durations. Children's program: incorporates attachment and trauma theories that strengthen the families' social skills. Youth Program: Focuses on cultural teachings, healthy social interaction, self-identity and fostering normal development. Woman's program: Provides information, support and advocacy. Fosters the creation of a healing/sharing network among clientele. All programs are based on the Medicine Wheel teachings. The four sessions offered each year are attached to the four directions of the Medicine Wheel.
- Program Successes/Impact:
Graduates of the one year program can return and facilitate new groups in the program.
- Key Lessons/Challenges:
Transience of clientele. Difficulty in procuring core funding.
- Program in operation since:
1994.
- Program:
Ongoing.
- Date modified: