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  Yearly recap

  19-Dec-2024

  Dear friends of the clinic,

  2024 has been an exciting year for staff and students here!  We have moved into a new space of our very own and have been busy making it home.  Our services became fully hybrid, and all clients now have the option of attending in-person, virtual, or telephone sessions.  Our group room technology has been working well and our hybrid groups have allowed us to increase access to people who live outside of the Halifax area.  We have participated in a pilot with the Office of Mental Health and Addictions focused on universal access to mental health care.  This work has let us demostrate our value to the larger system and we are expecting to deepen our partnership with that office in 2025.  Whereas in previous years our focus was on sexual and intimate partner violence, in 2024 we shifted resources, attention, and time to more general community-based mental health service delivery.  Our free counselling services have been incredibly popular in that context.  That is not to say we have stopped serving people who experience, or perpetrate, sexual or intimate partner violence.  Our work with the Department of Justice and other agencies on the Halifax Domestic Violence Court Programme has continued to grow.  We have also continued to offer and strengthen ManTalk, our group for male-identified victims of sexual abuse.  This trauma-specific therapy service has been very popular and we continue to receive new referrals from various community partners in addition to self-referrals from men who want help.  The year ahead will bring more expansion and more partnerships with allied agencies.  We plan to branch out into new areas of forensic assessment.  We also hope to focus more on public education and offering training opportunities to other agencies and individuals.  We look forward to working with you all in 2025!

  -James          

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