Family Violence Initiative
COMPENDIUM OF PROMISING PRACTICES TO REDUCE VIOLENCE AND INCREASE SAFETY OF ABORIGINAL WOMEN IN CANADA
INTERACTIONS WITHIN COMMUNITIES
Healthy Relationships: Children and Youth
- Program Name:
The Naomi Society
- Organization/Community:
Transition House Society of Canada
- Location:
Antigonish, Nova Scotia
- Website:
- Goals and Objectives:
To preserve and promote safety, dignity and human rights through direct services to women and their children who are victims of family violence.
- Target Group Description:
All women and children, boys and girls up to 18 years of age.
- Program Description:
The program offers safety planning for client needs and second stage housing for women and children leaving an abusive relationship where they can live for up to one year. The program offers confidential support, detailed safety planning, crisis intervention and support, counselling services, information on access to medical, legal, shelter and financial services and acts as a referral agency to other resources. The program does outreach in local schools through a six week prevention program for grade nine boys focussed on healthy relationships, addictions, and bullying.
- Program Successes/Impact:
Providing support and services and safety planning to those in need. Successfully keeping facility open and operational despite funding and staffing difficulties.
- Key Lessons/Challenges:
Transportation between office and reserve is a challenge as many clients do not have access to transportation.
- Program in operation since:
1983.
- Program:
Ongoing.
- Date modified: