Enhanced Wellness Program
The Enhanced Wellness Program provides additional enhanced supports to refugee and newcomer children, youth (6-18) and their families to increase mental health and overall wellbeing through evidence-based interventions.
Program Components Include:
- Delivery of a trauma informed and culturally appropriate curriculum in group-based sessions that teach children and youth about identifying big emotions, learning about the brain and survival responses (flight, fight, freeze) as well as self-regulation and coping strategies.
- 1-on-1 supports for children and youth to meet the need of challenges they are currently dealing with such as conflicts, school, or work-related stressors, recognizing and responding to big emotions within themselves and coping strategies.
- Increase refugee and newcomer children and youth school connectedness through homework supports
- FREE Circle of Security Parenting groups to parents and caregivers with interpretation available
- FREE Circle of Security Parenting groups to parents and caregivers delivered in the following first language: Arabic, Amharic, French, German, Mandarin 6. Russian, Somali, Swahili, and Tigrinya.
- Training for service providers and education professionals to meet the needs of refugee and newcomer children and youth in Making Sense of Trauma through webinars