Our Work
Group Programs
Getting Real
This course deals with the need to get real with our identity, our past, our present, our relationships and our future.
The Key2Me!
This course deals with how the words we speak have power; how to get out of the blame game and how to thrive rather than just cope.
Power Lines
This course defines what a healthy boundary looks like and feels like.
Overcoming
This program defines how criminal behaviour can be overcome by intentional healthy choices based on personal values and a solid philosophy of life.
The Art of Communication
This program teaches tools for being a better communicator as well as provides practical solutions for overcoming challenges in communication.
Pathways to Success
This course, from a book by Dr. Henry Cloud, paints a picture of 10 healthy options that will keep a person from Never Going Back to destructive patterns of behaviour.
Moving Forward Baggage Free
This course, from the book by Friedman and James based on the Grief Recovery Method, helps one recognize emotional baggage left over from past relationships and brings completion to unfinished losses.
How to Avoid Falling for a Jerk(Ette)
This course is based on the book by the same name, provides simple techniques to finding out who is partner material—and who is not.
Personal Mentoring
Our staff are called Mentors. Mentoring is a formal relationship where client and mentor work 1-1 on getting to the root of negative repetitive behaviour. It is individualized to the client’s needs and goals.
A Mentor is
- Further down the road than you
- Going where you want to go
- Willing to help you get there
- Doesn’t let you stay where you are
- Believes in you when you don’t believe in yourself
- Has permission to speak into your life
- A truth teller
- A cheer leader
Transitions into Community
Lack of trust is a tangible road block for many marginalized women. At Open Door we use backpacks of personal hygiene products and emergency clothing to let women know that we are available to them with no strings attached.
As women are being released from Corrections, Open Door is a community connection. Many women have little or no access to support in the community. Open Door provides a safe place for women to land where they will find staff who are supportive, encouraging and helpful in the release process. We help facilitate the transition back into the community as well as provide long term support.
Female Chaplaincy
Our role for chaplaincy with females in the Provincial Correctional Centre involves but is not limited to weekly Chapel services, group and individual Bible discussions, group mediation/soaking and spiritual direction for any woman of any faith or belief.
We have been called to heal wounds, to unite what has fallen apart and to bring home any who have lost their way. - St Francis
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