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NSDP provides information and support for men who want to enhance
their intimate relationships, change self-destructive behaviour,
or get help with issues of past or present violence or abuse.
Please note that our services for men, as expressed on this page, may not be available due to eligibility requirements and/or program funding challenges. Please e-mail or call us for the current status of these programs.
Do You...
- Want to develop closer intimate relationships, but aren't sure how?
- Often feel angry, frustrated, or on the verge of losing control with the people you love?
- Feel afraid or uncertain about your ability to parent your children?
- Find it difficult to communicate or express your feelings with loved ones?
- Find it difficult to manage your stress, anger or ability to deal with conflict
in a positive and constructive manner?
- Use physical abuse or violence in the home?
- Act physically or verbally abusive towards your partner or children?
If you answered YES to one or more of the above questions, you
could benefit from our group support services...
To assess the health and quality of your relationships with others
consider the following:
- Do you feel like you hurt the people you love?
- Do you question your ability to cope with stress, feelings of
anger, or conflict in your relationships with loved ones?
- Do you want to increase intimacy and improve your ability to
communicate with your partner or other family members?
- Do you want to learn healthy and constructive strategies that
will help rebuild or strengthen your intimate relationships?
If you answered YES to one or more of these questions, we may
be able to help... During group counselling sessions, we help men:
- look at the stereotypes and myths surrounding relationships
- learn new skills to rebuild avenues of communication and remove
barriers to intimacy,
- learn to use tools and strategies to become the individuals
they have the potential to be.
Parenting Support
Our group counselling includes fathers
who want to improve communication and enhance their relationships
with their children. Our counsellors can assist you with various
parenting issues and concerns, including:
- Understanding your fears, expectations, and responsibilities
as a parent,
- Understanding child development and what role fathers play in
their children's health and growth,
- Getting to know your kids and helping them cope with personal
challenges or problems,
- Understanding anger and its affect on children,
- Dealing with power struggles, and
- Becoming the role model and father you want to be.
Caring Dads Program:
Caring Dads in an intervention program designed for men who have abused or neglected their children orexposed them to abuse of their mothers. Developed and piloted over five years, this 17-session group program draws from best practices in the fields of batterer intervention, parenting, behavior change, child maltreatment, and working with resistant clients.
Goal 1: To develop sufficient trust adn motivation to engage men in the process of examining their fatherhood
Goal 2: To increase men's awareness of child-centered fathering
Goal 3: To increase men's awareness of, and responsibility for, abusive, and neglectful fathering behaviours and their impact on children
Goal 4: Consolidating learning, rebuilding trust, and planning for the future
Coping with Separation
or Divorce
NSDP's group counselling provides support for men who are going through a separation
and/or divorce. As there is significant grief and anger involved
in separation and divorce, we help men develop coping skills and
strategies with which to contain and normalize these feelings. Men
are given the information and practice to acquire the skills needed
to help them communicate with their ex-partners and the children
they share. With a view to future relationships, we search out patterns
of behaviour that were harmful in the past and teach new skills
that will enable men to have respectful and loving relationships
in the future.
Healing Past Abuse
Confidential group support is available for men who have been victims of historical
abuse. With peer support, men are encouraged to work through the grief and anger
associated with their trauma. Containment skills are taught and
practiced. We can help men acquire skills helpful in managing a healthy intimate
relationship.
Ending Domestic
Violence and Abuse in the Home
Confidential services are available for men who use violence or
abuse in their intimate relationships. Men are shown
techniques directed at eliminating the use of violence and abuse
against their partners. Men are encouraged to take responsibility
for their use of violence and see it as a choice, not as an uncontrolled reaction
to their past, to their anger, or to their lack of skills to adequately
cope with conflict, stress, or feelings of anger, helplessness,
or frustration.
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