Gloria Jean’s Program

General Information

Foxvalley Counseling Services Inc. will provide services to the City of Regina. Our agency will provide services to all people regardless of their race, nationality or gender. The agency and its staff are respectful of the individuality and views of others and recognizes the value of diversity in our community.

The purpose of Foxvalley Counseling Services Inc. is to promote and maintain the integrity of the family as a basic unit of society. The Agency strives to contribute to harmonious family relationships, strengthen positive values in family life and to promote healthy interpersonal relationships. It believes that the family is the most significant factor in producing healthy well-functioning individuals. The Family Support Program will provide support to families and their children through culturally appropriate, holistic, healing and preventative services. These services will address parenting skills, addictions, healing through traditional ceremonies with Elder guidance. The Agency also has a therapist involved in all aspects of positive change and growth with families and children involved with Foxvalley Counseling Services Inc.

In order to carry out this purpose, the staff and Board of Directors will:

Utilize their expertise and commitment in the direct service to others on a remedial and preventative basis.
Facilitate the development of the talents and the capacity of others to voluntarily give of themselves in service to families.
Bring a positive attitude to the service of those in need based on understanding, justice, culture and compassion.

Program Overview

Provide access to 24 hour emergency and temporary respite to children and families as required.
Work with the Ministry to (re) integrate the child/youth into family, school, and or community.

More specifically, this would involve the provision of:

Family Counselling: Therapeutic counselling services to families, couples and individuals in crisis whereby they are assisted to better utilize the spiritual, emotional, social and physical resources available to them.

Family Advocacy: Identifying, stimulating and acting upon social issues which have an impact on the capacity of families to sustain them in a healthy and viable state.

Traditional Counselling: The counselling is provided by the Elders, the keepers of the Sweat Lodges, and the Pipe Carriers, who have preserved the traditions. The specific goals of traditional practise will include increased knowledge (cultural protocol, life skills and self-management). Enhancement of personal responsibility and accountability.

In House Services to Parents

As a matter of efficiency and also in an effort at group building, Gloria Jean’s would provide limited in house group oriented services directed to the theoretical aspects of parenting and the development of parenting skills. The staff of Gloria Jean’s would offer traditional and non-traditional parenting classes/program related to early childhood. In addition, once the program is operative, special parent groups could be set up to deal with issues within the family unit as a whole.

It is recognized that some of the families referred to Gloria Jean’s House, are in need of other services and could utilize an outside agency. For this purpose, it is suggested that the house staff provide an advocacy service to these clients to assist them to access other community services.

This service is based on the premise that many clients do not have the skills or knowledge required to access available services. Family workers would also provide this service to their regular clients.

Program Objectives

To provide a place of safety for children who would otherwise come into care.
Reduce the number of children coming into the care of the Ministry.
To support the preservation of the family unit.
To provide a home like environment that is a place of safety.
To have the families served experience Gloria Jean’s House as a beneficial and supportive service.

Monitoring and Evaluation

Case management meetings involving Gloria Jean’s House staff and the Ministry of Social Services personnel will be held on a monthly basis. The purpose of these meetings will be to review case plans, progress in case to date, and closure summaries.
The Board of Directors will meet on a monthly basis to discuss implementation or ingoing program issues.
FoxValley Counseling Services Inc will be implementing a statistical package with a limited monitoring capacity. Such a statistical package would contain an evaluation component measuring the service satisfaction both from the perspective of the worker delivering the service and from the client receiving the service.
FoxValley Counseling Services Inc. will provide the Ministry of Social Services with comprehensive statistical information relative to the program on a quarterly basis, together with an annual statistical summary.

Program Outcomes

Families where children are at risk of coming into care will have access to emergent, safe and temporary care services.

At risk children will have a place of safety during period’s time when family members are unable to care for them.

Children will not come into care of the Ministry.

The Agency will provide care, supervision and support to children and families members when children are admitted to the program.

Families and children will be supervised by the staffs, who work in the home.

The program shall be culturally sensitive

Every effort will be made to have program staff proportionally reflect the ethnic and cultural populations being served by the program.
The cultural values, beliefs and the ability to address the families and children’s physical, emotional, social and spiritual growth are important factors in the positive difference that families learn to incorporate into their lifestyles.
Ability to match Elder with family.