With a strong increase in that program over the past four years, the centre now begins a new 15-week group every second to third month. Calgary is very unique, because it s not often acceptable to work with women who have been abusive. Our belief is that we re all impacted by domestic violence, we all perpetrate at some point, we re all human. Ultimately we like to work with both the men and the women. We also have groups for children.
Parents are increasingly concerned about kids behaving violently.
Our programs are preventive in that we want to reach these kids when they re young. We want to stop it before it gets worse. Trailblazers in their own right, and with the added benefit of initials behind names to back them up, they were also the first agency in town who started working with abusive men in 1981. But we re so far beyond that now.