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HerWay Home Program: HerWay Home Program: Comprehensive Programming for Comprehensive Programming for Women and Children in VictoriaWomen and Children in Victoria
Presented by: Jill DavorenBetty Poag
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Queen Alexandra Hospital Foundation for Children
Victoria General Hospital- Perinatal Program
Blanshard Community Birth Project
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Review of the literature
Identify best approach to ensure broad, “low threshold” support for women
Comprehensive, coordinated, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary
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Current Membership Includes:
Over 30 community and health service agencies
Over 85 individuals
2 Ministries
Several community members
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Theoretical Frameworks that guide our service delivery model:
Woman-Centred & Child-Centred
Trauma Informed
Harm Reduction
Services “mapped” to stages of change (Transtheoretical Model)
Staff will have training in Motivational Interviewing to work more effectively with clients.
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Services:
Housing
Primary Health Services/Perinatal Services
Infant/Child Services
Drug and Alcohol Counselling
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Services cont’d:
Woman Abuse Response Services
Parenting Support and Advocacy
Nutrition/Food security
Pragmatic Supports
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Mother’s
Alcohol Use
Mother’s nutrition
Mother’s stress level
Mother’s access to prenatal
care
Mother’s use of other drugs
Mother’s overall health
Poverty Stigma and Racial Discrimination
AgeContext/Isolation
Experience of Loss
Policy on Mothering, ethics of funding
Resilience
Experience of Violence
Genetics
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Poole, N. (2003). Mother and Child Reunion: Preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder by Promoting Women's Health. Vancouver, BC: BCCEWH
Physical environment, housing
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HerW ay HomeHousing Program (phase 2)
- e m erg e n cy- sup p orted
HerW ay Home"Drop-In Centre"
- p ro gra m s- se rv ices
HerW ay Home Stabilization Housing
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"All labour that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken
with painstaking excellence."
Martin Luther King Jr.
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Thank you for your time and attention!
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