Dragonfly Children's Healing Centre

Service provides:

• programming with a trauma-informed therapeutic approach to nurture, protect, enrich, educate, and heal children and youth who are, or have been, exposed to domestic violence, homelessness, and suicide

Identified outcomes include:

• to build adult, child, and youth resiliency to face social, psychological, and economic challenges
• to increase adult parenting capabilities and improved parent / child bond
• to prevent suicidal ideation for either the child or the parent
• to prevent family breakdown and mitigate the impact of trauma on the entire family

Programs include:

• Kid Power - an 8 week play therapy group, offered 6 times a year, for children ages 5 to 11 who have been affected by domestic violence, with a parent's group that runs at the same time as the children's group
• Youth Boundaries - a psychoeducational support group offered 3 times a year and 1-to-1 support for youth ages 14 to 17 who want to learn about creating healthy boundaries within dating relationships, with parents, with friends, with teachers, and with others in their lives
• Play Therapy / Therapy - therapy sessions for children ages 3 to 11 experiencing trauma because of domestic violence, homelessness, and suicide
• Snoezelen Room - a multi-sensory therapy room with the capacity to serve 250 children in a year

• 3 to 17 years

• contact for more information, including dates and times, or to enroll / make an appointment

There may be a waitlist depending on program.

• Children / Families - Child Abuse Counselling and Support Groups
• Mental Health Supports - Alternative Therapies
• Mental Health Supports - Counselling / Therapy
• Violence / Abuse - Child Abuse
• Violence / Abuse - Counselling for Abuse Recovery
• Youth - Youth Mental Health

Closed for lunch between 12:00 PM and 1:00 PM. Closed on statutory holidays.