RESPECT | BUFFALO

Buffalo Spirit – Kichi’ ‛inendamowin: Respect
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Prevention Services Unit

Prevention Services

At Sagkeeng Child and Family Services we support and empower our families and community. Services we provide include workshops in traditional skills that are powerful anchors to our culture. Some of those teachings have been recorded in videos.

In addition we help parents identify their strengths and build upon those skills. They can access resources they need to better care for their children such as:

in-home supports
parenting programs
adolescent supports
individual and family counselling
life skills training
family mediation
youth programs
healing and cultural teachings
elder services
family recreation
mentoring
advocacy
and family support.

The Prevention Program provides services for individual families that begins with a voluntary assessment.

The Prevention Program also develops programs, workshops, and activities that are open to all community members and work collaborative with other community organizations.

To see upcoming Prevention Services events and programs click here.

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Program and Services

Prevention Services Unit offer the following for both the Sagkeeng and Winnipeg Offices:

Training:

Budgeting
Transportation – out of community shopping

Programs:

Domestic Violence
Traditional Parenting
Healthy Choices
Mentoring Program
Grief and Loss
Anger Management/Anti-aggression
Youth
Life Skills
Advocacy

Community Engagement

The Prevention Services Unit strives to break down the barriers and strengthen relationships between Child & Family Services and members of the Sagkeeng Community.

The following Prevention Service Initiatives have been undertaken:

Winter outerwear donations for both schools in Community (jackets, mitts, toques)
Back to School BBQ
Back to school backpacks with supplies
Hygiene packs

Prevention Services Unit also contributes to the following:

Various community events
Merchandise bingo fundraisers, (i.e. high school graduation/Jr. High Christmas Bingo)
Youth/We Day
Off-reserve Member Christmas Feast
Annual Pow Wow Celebration
Christmas food hampers

The Prevention Services Program consists of:

1 Supervisor
1 Prevention Administrative Assistant
2 Prevention Workers
2 Prevention Service Facilitators

The prevention program is a short term family focused program that assists families in crisis by providing support services to prevent children from coming into agency care.

The program is voluntary and strength based, which provides a range of prevention and early intervention services that includes but not limited to: