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Jeff Green | Jan 05, 2006

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New Womens Support Group in Verona

The North Rural Women’s Program of Land O’ Lakes Community Services, the Women’s Counselling Program of K3C Community Counselling and the Family Services Program of Rural VISIONS Centre are pooling their resources to offer a support group for women in and around the Verona area.

Women and Relationships: Building Healthy Connections in our Lives is a support group for women who are experiencing or have experienced abuse (verbal, emotional, financial, sexual or physical). The women will explore, through discussion groups, a variety of topics including (but not limited to), how abuse in relationships affects us, self-care and beginning to build healthy relationships with ourselves and others.

Co-facilitators for the group are Corinne Burke, a counsellor with the North Rural Women’s Program and Manijeh Moghisi, a counsellor with K3C Community Counselling Centres.

Meetings will be on Tuesday mornings from 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. at the Verona Free Methodist Church. The program will run for 6 weeks beginning on January 17, 2006. There is no cost to attend and childcare and transportation can be provided. To register, or for more information please contact Corinne Burke at (613) 279-3151, extension 110 on Mondays or Tuesdays.