Children

Empowering Children

Many children grow up in environments where they witness abuse, and this can have serious affects them.

Our PEACE Program provides individual and group counselling for children ages 3-18, who have been exposed to this form of trauma.

Programs we offer include:

PEACE (formerly Children Who Witness Abuse Program)
Our program helps children and youth understand their experiences and develop skills and capacities that will enable them to deal with their histories in healthy ways.

Communities we serve:

Children who are exposed to physical violence in their homes are more than twice as likely to be physically aggressive as those who have not.

*McCreary Centre Society. Healthy Connections: Listening to BC Youth, 1999, p. 17.