Educational Groups
Educational groups encourage personal growth, provide work-related skills training, teach the group process, and include:
- Personal growth groups to teach participants how to explore concepts in an intellectual or conversational format
- TC job skills groups to teach participants about specific jobs required in the TC and the proper way to perform these jobs
- Clinical skills groups to teach new participants how to use group process tools via simulated or mock encounter groups
- Life skills groups to teach specific skills that participants need to succeed in mainstream society
- Re-entry groups (e.g. Step-down) to prepare participants to move back into the community.
Clinical Groups
Concern Groups:
To help raise participants awareness of their self-defeating behaviours and attitudes.
Open Groups:
Space for community members to address issues which may be affecting the community as a whole, or any other issues which may be relevant or important.
Clan Groups:
Typically, each staff member is assigned a number of clients as a caseload; these clients form Clan Group and meet weekly to discuss more sensitive or personal issues in a small group format. This is a space normally reserved for reading and exploring and individuals life story.
Peer Groups:
Group meetings which are facilitated by the TC members without staff. These groups allow community members to speak freely about personal issues.
Anger Management:
Workshops are held weekly using a Cognitive Behavioral Approach and runs for 12 weeks. All participants receive a Coolmine certificate of completion.
