- Brampton: (905) 450-1608
- Mississauga: (905) 897-1644
- Dufferin: 1 (888) 940-0584
Catholic Family Services is pleased to offer a variety of groups and workshops that reflects our mandate to help families and to help stop family violence.
Our group programs support:
- Women who are survivors of trauma and abuse (past and present)
- Men who have assaulted their intimate partners
- Mothers and their children surviving abuse together
- Adolescents who have been exposed to woman abuse in their families
Groups are designed to provide:
- Mutually supportive group setting
- Information and education
- Strategies for survivors to help reduce trauma-related symptoms
- Assistance for men to help them develop non-abusive behaviours
- Parenting strategies when children have been exposed to abuse
Language specific women's support groups are offered in Spanish, Polish, Punjabi and Portuguese.
Cultural Interpreters are available for groups offered by the PAR program.
Workshops & Groups Available
Family Life Education: Mindfulness Based Therapeutic Group for Managing
Anxiety and Depression
April 13, 2010 - May 18, 2010 (10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
This group is being offered for men and women who are experiencing anxiety and/or depression. It is designed to facilitate group members creating a Mindfulness-based practice in order to manage repetitive thoughts, overwhelming feelings, and body sensations, related to anxiety and depression. The group will begin with thirty minutes of gentle Yoga stretching to enhance the mind-body connection, and to prepare for group sitting Mindfulness-based meditation exercises. Mindfulness-based exercises involve noticing thoughts, feelings, & sensations in a non-judgmental way, as they arise in the present moment. This cultivates self-awareness, acceptance, and compassion towards yourself. As a result, there is an increased ability to experience greater well-being.
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Brief Description: A support group for women of Portuguese descent who have experienced intimate partner violence.
Nature of Group: Open
Current Facilitators: Ana Rocha & Sandra Bergantim (Catholic Family Services Peel-Dufferin and Catholic Crosscultural Services)
Criteria for Eligibility: Women who have experienced intimate partner violence.
Differential Criteria: Group will be delivered in English with Portuguese translation provided if necessary
When: Starting March 25, 2010
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Family Life Education
We offer training and workshops in life skills, bereavement care, self-esteem, parenting, creating healthy families, spirituality and many other topics which support families in building loving relationships.
Please click here for the 2010 Family Life Education Calendar
Awakening From Within
Awakening from Within is a 7 week open group for women that combines bioenergetic exercises and yoga to offer survivors of trauma the opportunity to work with their own body in a safe and respectful environment without expectations or demands.
March 25, 2010 - May 6, 2010
Thursday mornings, weekly in Mississauga
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
To register please call and speak to a caseworker.
Anxiety and Depression
April 13, 2010 - May 18, 2010 (10:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.)
This group is being offered for men and women who are experiencing anxiety and/or depression. It is designed to facilitate group members creating a Mindfulness-based practice in order to manage repetitive thoughts, overwhelming feelings, and body sensations, related to anxiety and depression. The group will begin with thirty minutes of gentle Yoga stretching to enhance the mind-body connection, and to prepare for group sitting Mindfulness-based meditation exercises. Mindfulness-based exercises involve noticing thoughts, feelings, & sensations in a non-judgmental way, as they arise in the present moment. This cultivates self-awareness, acceptance, and compassion towards yourself. As a result, there is an increased ability to experience greater well-being.
Circle of Healing:
March 29th-July 5, 2010 (6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.) Mondays
Circle
of Healing is a mindfulness based group for adult women who have
experienced trauma and abuse in childhood. This group program provides
women who have already been involved in a healing process an
opportunity to:
- Deepen connection to self and others
- Be supported in developing greater acceptance, compassion and non-judgement
- Learn the skills of moment-to-moment awareness
- Experience enhanced 'presence' in all aspects of living
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Group for Women who
have experienced Intimate partner violence.
Portuguese translation provided if
necessary
Brief Description: A support group for women of Portuguese descent who have experienced intimate partner violence.
Nature of Group: Open
Current Facilitators: Ana Rocha & Sandra Bergantim (Catholic Family Services Peel-Dufferin and Catholic Crosscultural Services)
Criteria for Eligibility: Women who have experienced intimate partner violence.
Differential Criteria: Group will be delivered in English with Portuguese translation provided if necessary
When: Starting March 25, 2010
Click here for English Flyer
Click here for Portuguese Flyer
Family Life Education
We offer training and workshops in life skills, bereavement care, self-esteem, parenting, creating healthy families, spirituality and many other topics which support families in building loving relationships.
Please click here for the 2010 Family Life Education Calendar
Awakening From Within
Awakening from Within is a 7 week open group for women that combines bioenergetic exercises and yoga to offer survivors of trauma the opportunity to work with their own body in a safe and respectful environment without expectations or demands.
- Courage, Empowerment, Wholeness
- Connection, Inspiration, Transformation
- Intuition, Acceptance, Healing
- Voice, Assertion, Truth
March 25, 2010 - May 6, 2010
Thursday mornings, weekly in Mississauga
9:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
To register please call and speak to a caseworker.
To register or to get all scheduling information about our group programs and
workshops, please call and speak to one of our caseworkers at: 905.450.1608 X 112
