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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