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June 21, 2025 - Provides support, information, early intervention, and referral to other services for parents with youth ages 12-17 who are experiencing parenting challenges or parent/child conflicts. Service is strength-based, family-centered, and offered in individual or group formats. Sessions include: providing effective boundaries, communication strategies, problem solving, negotiation, and conflict resolution. John Howard Society of Hamilton, Burlington & Area: Main Office
654 Barton St. East
Hamilton, ON
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June 21, 2025 - Offers low cost, twice-per-month transportation for visitors to the federal institutions in the Warkworth and Kingston areas. Operated primarily by volunteers, allows for direct family contac that would not ordinarily be possible. John Howard Society of Hamilton, Burlington & Area: Main Office
654 Barton St. East
Hamilton, ON
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June 21, 2025 - Designed to provide support, information, early intervention, and referral to other services for parents with youth 12-17 who are experiencing parenting challenges or parent/child conflicts. Service is strength-based, family centered, and offered in individual or group formats. The goal is to assist families to find positive solutions to conflicts and concerns by identifying and using family strengths, creating greater understanding between parents and youth with a skills building process for parents of youth. John Howard Society of Hamilton, Burlington & Area: Main Office
654 Barton St. East
Hamilton, ON
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June 21, 2025 - Provides two different group sessions, one for parents with children aged 5-12, and the other for parents of teens. Sessions are ongoing and run from September to June each year. Each group session is eight weeks long and runs for 2.5 hours. Parents in this program have the opportunity to enhance their parenting skills and learn best practices for establishing effective communication skills, while helping to teach self-reliance and responsibility to their children. Goals include replacing power struggles with cooperative family decisions. Video-based content is included along with the provision of workbooks for each participant. A certificate of completion is…Read More

June 21, 2025 - A 25 hour facilitated, educational and peer supported program for dads experiencing separation or divorce to expand their support network, strengthen relationships with their children, and develop healthy interpersonal, parenting and co-operative parenting skills. Clients talk to our program support staff for pre-screening followed by an appointment with a counselor for assessment and goal setting. Clients are referred by various community services such as: lawyers, courts, probation, employers, child protection workers, medical and social service workers, mental health workers, self, family or friends. Funding is provided by the United Way. John Howard Society of Durham Region: Main Office
75 Richmond…Read More