Brighter Hours Brighter Days is designed for individuals who are feeling overwhelmed by life’s stressors and the impact it might be having on their daily lives. This workshop, will allow the women to navigate these negative impacts and form connections to their mental health. Women will be provided tools and resources by staff that will help them build transferable skills to self-manage, cope, and heal.

Solutions to Anger is a program that provides individuals with tools to effectively resolve anger and to regulate their emotions. In six different modules we talk about solution based approaches to anger. The program teaches women how to identify their feelings and communicate them effectively and appropriately to provide them with the best possible situational outcome.

This programs is from female identifying individuals who have experienced gender based violence. Rethink, Reframe Reclaim will give participants hands on skills on how to cope with symptoms of adverse experiences while simultaneously offering a supportive environment where individuals can feel safe and empowered. This program is offered with a trauma informed lens and strives to make connections between gender based violence and the long lasting impacts on women. The information offered and explored in this program involves coping after trauma, breaking trauma bonds, safety planning, instilling boundaries, creating support networks, building healthy relationships and applying effective communication.

In this two part employment and financial management program participants will develop employment readiness skills to help obtain and maintain employment. Participants will engage in workshops such as resume and cover letter building, interview preparation, employment exploration, career planning and self-improvement. The goal of the program is to enable individuals to reach their employment goals as well as succeed in personal development.

In part two of the employment and financial management program, we will discuss spending plans that balance spending with income, allowing participants to work towards their financial goals and address financial barriers. This financial preparation program aims to provide individuals and their families with skills to become self-sufficient and financial stable by acquiring budgeting tools, money and debt management resources, income and expenditures suppor

Ready to Rent: Certification after completion of program

This program aims to help participants achieve their safe and affordable housing goals, become successful renters, identify challenges in rental history and take action to improve their ability to rent. With the exploration of landlord and tenant rights, financial preparation plans, rental applications and criteria contracts, this knowledge will support the development of participant’s skills and will help individuals improve chances to obtain rental housing and prepare for successful independent living.

This program will empower participants to clearly create, state, and maintain healthy boundaries. It will provide women with tools for boundary awareness, confidence building, effective communication, and conflict resolution. With the enhancement of their current skills and development of new ones. This program allows for personal and future growth strategies, which brings awareness to the importance of healthy relationship building, and allow for participant to develop an understanding of creating more meaningful relationships with themselves as well as the relationships in their lives.

This program will have participants navigate and find their own balance of well-being. With discussion on the 7 key dimensions of wellness that contribute to overall health and quality of life, individuals will be able to do wellness mapping discovering areas of strengths and weaknesses. The program will provide tools for coping skills, mindfulness practices, self-care strategies, and hygiene routines that aim to achieve their mindbody wellness goals.

This program will support the development of client’s household and living space responsibilities as well as their confidence and familiarity with food preparation. Participants in the program will be provided the appropriate knowledge and tools to implement daily household routines, task completion and goal organization. With proper nutritional training, meal planning and food preparation activities, participants will become confident with their newfound skills in the kitchen. The program aims to give participants both a sense of belonging and pride in their living space but also in their own capabilities to contribute to a healthier lifestyle.