Programs
Coverdale Centre for Women offers skill building programs to women accessing our residential and shelter services and to women in the community. Our program goals are to improve transferable skills that will promote successful independent living and employment readiness program acceptance, or employment procurement success. We have a core set of programs that we rotate through based on the needs of the women currently accessing services, and also offer them individually for those who prefer to have one to one support. Coverdale's Program Facilitator also works with individuals to source information and resources that are beyond the scope of our core programs. We make referrals to other agencies to help fill gaps and provide a continuum of care that will support women and increase confidence. ​
Program Facilitator: Chanelle Morgan
Contact: coverdaleprograms@gmail.com, 506-634-0812
Our Programs
Boundaries
What are boundaries, how we have developed or failed to develop boundaries throughout our lives and the various influences impacting our sense of boundaries and ability to defend them, the different areas in our life where boundaries can and should be established, recognizing when our boundaries are being violated and when we may be violating someone else’s, strategies to improve our boundaries, and why boundaries are important to our well-being
Healthy Relationships
Explores what constitutes a healthy vs. unhealthy relationship, warning signs, types of abuse, values, intimacy and bonding. Recently updated to include the effects of emergencies and pandemics on already volatile relationships.
Your Financial Toolkit
An in-depth exploration of financial practices including insurance, financial planning, investment, mortgages, retirement planning, and fraud protection.
Assertiveness
Focuses specifically on the assertive style of communication, what it is, how it differs from aggressive communication, how we can practice and develop our assertive communication.
Financial Basics
A workshop covering financial practices including budgeting, credit, consumerism, loans, etc.
Improving Self-Esteem
Begins with an overview of how low self-esteem develops, how it is maintained, and how we can begin to change and improve our sense of confidence and self-worth.
Communication Skills
There are 4 types of communication: passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive, and assertive. This program provides information about all 4 types, promotes reflection on participants personal communication style, and wraps up with the healthiest of the 4, assertiveness, what it looks like to be assertive, how we can begin to change our style and become more assertive including standing up for our own rights and needs while respecting the rights and needs of the other person in the exchange
Anger Expression
An overview of the anger emotion, positive and negative anger, when anger becomes a problem, the “pressure cooker” anger analogy, anger as a secondary emotion, strategies to manage anger more effectively.
Mind Over Mood
The Mind Over Mood Program works through the Mind Over Mood workbook within a group or individualized program format. Mind Over Mood teaches tools and skills to manage moods by making changes in 5 key areas.
Mastering Your Worries
Self-reflection on the role worry plays in our lives, how worries are maintained, negative and positive beliefs about worry, the effects of excessive worry on our well-being, experiments, and strategies to control worry.
Transition to Work
This program prepares women for the job search, the application process, the interview, and maintaining a job once obtained. It also includes concerns that may arise in the workplace and how to handle them appropriately. Information regarding health, nutrition to fuel the day, mental health, and the effects that abusive relationships can have on a person’s work life are also incorporated.
Facing Your Feelings
Explores distress intolerance, provides opportunity for self-reflection on our ability to handle distress, describes common ways individuals use to avoid distress (and their feelings), and offers tools to begin to face our feelings and learn to experience and manage them in a healthier way.
Healthy Living on a Fixed Budget
Provides information about wants vs. needs, flyer shopping and price matching, unit pricing, the Canada Food Guide, reading labels. It includes a meal planning session, a trip to carry out a grocery shopping trip on the city bus, and a cooking session.