This group has been designed for children and youth who are having difficulties controlling their frustration and anger.

Through fun filled activities and practice sessions, children and youth learn how to understand a variety of emotions and the resulting physical and emotional responses. Practice sessions help to identify the consequences of impulsive behaviour and angry outbursts and teach positive conflict resolution.
Children and youth learn to understand how anger causes tension in the body and to recognize their anger triggers. By recognising the triggers, new responses and behaviours can be developed.

Groups are available for children and youth aged: 4-7, 8-12, and 13-15.

The Child & Adolescent Crisis Service is a mobile crisis intervention service providing immediate telephone counselling and, if necessary, on-site crisis intervention in the home, school, hospital, or other community location. It operates 7 days a week, 24 hours a day for children and youth up to the age of 18 and their families. Counsellors have access to psychiatric and psychologist consultation.

Crisis Staff are able to go out to a crisis situation after information is collected over the phone and an on-site intervention is assessed as appropriate.

Services Include:

. Crisis Counselling
. Family Support
. Referrals to Resources
. Advocacy
. Community Information, Workshops
. Access to psychiatric consultation
. Crisis Bed

Two full day care programs are offered at the Western Hill and Central ELPP (7:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.) centres.

We offer developmental screening to ensure children have reached appropriate milestones and assist with referrals to other community services where needed, such as speech and language services or services for children with special needs.

We also help families locate counselling services, housing centres, women's shelters or other helping community agencies.

Children will enjoy age appropriate creative activities, music and movement, science and discovery, stories and many other educational and enjoyable activities that will assist in their healthy development.

Residential Services provides a home-like atmosphere away from home when children and youth cannot function within their own home for a time. Counselling and treatment is provided for the children and youth along with support and educational workshops for parents. The goal is to strengthen the family and provide coping strategies so the child/youth can return home.

Residential Services provides a home-like atmosphere away from home when children and youth cannot function within their own home for a time. Counselling and treatment is provided for the children and youth along with support and educational workshops for parents. The goal is to strengthen the family and provide coping strategies so the child/youth can return home.

Through fun filled activities and discussion, children and youth learn to to recognise their personal strengths and the strengths of others. A series of skills are taught to help children and youth begin and continue conversations, build friendships, ask for help, follow direction, and problem solve. The results are improved social skills, increased self-esteem and confidence.

This group would be beneficial for children who may be timid, shy, withdrawn or have trouble making friends.

Groups are available for children and youth aged: 4-7, 8-12, and 13-15.

(S.T.O.P.) is a mental health treatment based program for children/youth ages 4 to 18 who are exhibiting sexual behaviour problems or have been charged with a sexual offence.

Research shows that the average age of a victim is slightly over four years of age and a child with sexualized behaviour problems will have 3.5 victims by the age of 10. Without behaviour specific treatment, these children/youth are at much greater risk to continue offending, often increasing the number of victims and the severity of the sexual offence.

The S.T.O.P. program has a proven success rate of over 90%. Great attention is paid to ensure extensive safety planning, comprehensive assessment, and high quality treatment in co-operation with professionals and agencies within Niagara and beyond. The sooner sexualized behaviour in children and youth is identified and treated, fewer victims will have to suffer significant trauma.

Our Youth Justice program addresses the needs of the Community and the position of the Victim. The three components of our work are:


Extra Judicial Measures — Pre–Charge
Partnering with the OPP, we assist the young person through a pre-charge program while holding them accountable for their actions. We contract with the young person and provide them with sanctions to complete prior to having any formal measures taken. The outcome of the individual file is reported to the OPP.

Extra Judicial Sanctions — Post–Charge
Partnering with the Crown’s Office, Police, and Probation, we assist the young person through an alternative to a formal court procedure. We contract with the young person and provide them with sanctions to complete, that enable them to payback the community for any wrong doings in which they may have participated. Assisting the young person in coming to terms with having made a wrong decision, we encourage them to make a positive change in their future.

Probation
The Community Service Program assists the young person in finding a suitable Community Placement in which they can fulfill their obligation to the Court and complete their Community Service Hours. With the Probation Officer, we monitor the young person’s performance, report any issues that might arise, and terminate the file at the completion of the Community Placement.