Core Value – Service Excellence

We offer high quality, accessible, inclusive and flexible services. We commit to providing information and resources which will enable people to make informed decisions.

Core Value – Enhanced Community Capacity

We commit to deliver services that respond to changing needs and demonstrate best possible outcomes. We foster community participation, collaboration, and action.

Core Value – Professional Team

We work in a supportive environment where knowledge, experience, strengths and skills are shared. We pursue continuous improvement and operate with fairness, honesty and the highest ethical standards.

Our Mission

To provide education, support and professional counselling programs to individuals and families to build and sustain more positive futures.

Core Value - Strong Agency Capacity

We believe in transparency, sustainability, and innovation. We commit to being a good steward of resources.

Women’s Counselling (Stopping the Violence)

This Women’s Counselling program provides counselling for women ages 19+, in Fort St John and area who have experienced sexual assault, any form of violence or abuse in a relationship, child abuse, and/or childhood violence.
Where no other suitable services are available, women under the age of 19 who are leading an adult life style may also access the program. Services include individual and group counselling, support groups, and referrals to other services.

PROGRAM FOCUS

What is Relationship Abuse? The easiest forms of abuse for us to recognize are physical and sexual abuse; however, women can be abused in other ways that can be just as frightening and damaging to their sense of self.

Some examples of other abusive behaviours are:

Using threats and intimidation; making or carrying out threats to do something to hurt you; making you afraid by using looks, actions, gestures, smashing things, abusing pets, displaying weapons.
Using emotional abuse: putting you down; making you feel bad about yourself; humiliating you.
Using isolation: controlling what you do, who you see and talk to, what you read, where you go; using jealousy to justify actions.
Minimizing, denying, and blaming: saying you are responsible for the abuse; making light of the abuse and not taking your concerns about it seriously.
Using the children: saying he will take the children if you leave.
Using male privilege: treating you like a servant; acting like the “master of the castle”.
Using economic abuse: preventing you from getting or keeping a job; making you ask for money; taking your pay cheques; withholding money from you so that you have no food or cannot get necessary medical treatment.

If you have been a victim of abuse, you may be feeling: