North Kootenay Lake Community Services Society is a registered charity. Please help support our work through a tax deductible donation. You can make a donation by mailing it to the address above or donate online right now by clicking above.
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Counselling
Child, Youth & Families Counselling
We offer counselling to families as well as art and other expressive therapies for children and youth.
Children Who Witness Abuse
The CWWA program involves education and counselling aimed at ultimately breaking the cycle of violence against women and children.
Sexual Abuse Intervention Program
At NKLCSS we provide a number of direct and indirect specialized services to children and youth who have been sexually abused; to their caregivers and families and to others in their day-to-day environment. We believe that child/youth vicitms of sexual abuse will experience less behavioral and emotional difficulties as a result of the Sexual Abuse Intervention Program.
Family Support Service
Offers outreach counselling, in-home support and crisis intervention for children, youth and families. Helps families strengthen parenting, communication, conflict resolution and anger management skills. Provides workshops and educational activities in community settings.
Addictions
Addictions services consist of intervention, support counselling, referrals to detox and residential treatment education and prevention activities in school and community settings.
Mental Health
We offer outreach and support services for person's with chronic and persistant mental illness.
Community Counselling Service
The Counselling team provides confidential emotional support and promote positive growth and healing for individual adults, children, youth and families. This includes crisis response, short term and long term counselling services. The team includes professionals with expertise in play therapy, addictions, family violence, sexual abuse and womens' and mens' issues.
The Counselling service also provides some outreach to communities at the north end of the lake and educational programs in community settings.