Enhancing the well-being of
children aged 0-6 PROGRAMS: Aboriginal Health &
Wellness Centre (English) Andrews Street Family
Centre (English) Child Family Resource
Centre (English) Futures (English) Growing Years (English) In a Good Way (English) Interagency FAS
Program (English) Manitoba Association of
Women’s Shelters (English) The Laurel Centre (English) The Pas Family Resource
Centre (English) Wahbung Abinoonjiiag
(English) (English) Young Parents Resource
Centre (English) CAPC Community Action Program for
Children Manitoba
Association of Women’s Shelters (Province-wide) Services
offered in English Dedicated
to the Elimination of Violence Against Women and Children. The Manitoba Association of
Women's Shelters (MAWS) operates and sponsors a CAPC project called
Enhancement and Expansion of Children's Programs at ten member shelters
across
The project
serves clients of these shelters with children age 0-6 and their families.
It was conceived as a way to address the limited staffing of children's programs
in shelters across the province, which had been identified by shelters as
the association's biggest service gap. The project was instituted at eight
shelters in 1994, and two more shelters joined the project at the beginning
of the 1997-2000 funding period. The MAWS
project enhances the services that shelters provide to children who are
witnesses to or victims of family violence. The project is an attempt to
provide consistently high-quality programs for children at all
participating shelters. The project also provides outreach and follow-up
programming, to maintain contact with and supports for families after they
have left the shelter. The outreach component has expanded to include
public awareness presentations on family and relationship issues to service
providers, parent groups and schools. Flexibility
is an important feature of the MAWS project approach. The ten shelters
operate under a common goal, but because they vary in size and program
focus, CAPC programs are implemented differently at each shelter - like 10
CAPC projects in one. "What I liked
the most is that there was always someone there at all times Contact:
to watch the children play safe." - Parent
Jennifer Hagedorn : Program Manager
Ph: 897-3907
Fax: 831-9722
maws@maws.mb.ca