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The PEACE Program Training video provides an overview and framework for working with children and youth who have experienced violence, including guidance about working from a psycho-educational approach. The video shares information about the PEACE mandate, stages of service, suggestions for structuring sessions and examples of potential activities, considerations for different developmental ranges, and ideas about how to open and close sessions. The training video was developed with new counsellors in mind, but we hope that all PEACE Program counsellors will find it helpful and relevant.
The Getting Home Project: Overcoming Barriers to Housing after Violence is a three-year, community-based project, focusing on reducing barriers to safe, secure and affordable housing for women and their children experiencing violence in BC.
This community needs assessment is designed to gather research on the local, provincial and national level. While the scope of our research is to identify the needs and gaps for women accessing affordable housing in BC, we also looked to global and national research to gather information on best practices and well-documented gaps that housing researchers have already acknowledged in other jurisdictions.
This guide offers sample policy templates to assist anti-violence organizations to develop specific “use of technology” policies for the Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling and Empowerment (PEACE) Programs for Children and Youth Experiencing Violence. These policy templates were created to ensure that the way technology is used in our collective work to support women, children and youth experiencing domestic violence does not negatively impact the privacy, confidentiality and safety of the women, youth and children who access our services. The policy templates included in this resource specifically address the use of technology by board members, employees (including the Executive Director), sub-contractors, service providers, volunteers, trainees, and work placement and student interns working within the PEACE program.
