Onyx Brochure

SAFFRON staff are aware of the need for propro-active services in the community to address the vulnerability of today’s youth, and the challenges they face in present society when dealing with issues of sexual violence. By creating strong, independent, and empowered young women, they will be able to withstand negative influences of sexual connotations and learn the skills necessary to make positive decisions for themselves and their future.

Preventing Sexual Violence

It is said that ONYX is the stone of endurance and guides positive decision making in challenging times. This reflects the goals of the ONYX program: to empower young women to learn how to be assertive and set healthy relationship boundaries as they are bombarded daily with mixed messages through media, music, and print.

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#44, 48 Brentwood Blvd. Sherwood Park, AB T8A 2H5 Phone: (780) 449449-0900 Fax: (780) 416416-2393 www.saffronwww.saffron-ssac.com Email: info@[email protected]

The Canadian Women’s Foundation, in partnership with The Body Shop STOP Violence Against Women Fund, the HBC Foundation Fund, the Royal LePage Shelter Foundation Fund, the Scotiabank Fund, the Shelter from the Storm campaign, supported by campaign partners Winners and Home Sense, Rogers Media Group, BMO Financial Group and W Network, the Social Justice Fund at Tides Canada Foundation and the Canadian Women’s Foundation Violence Prevention Fund, supported by Aimee Quitevis Memorial Fund, The Tony McNaughton Memorial Fund, The Joan and Clifford Hatch Foundation and many individual donors across Canada.

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10 Weeks, 1.5 hour sessions OR 5 day week, 4 hour sessions per day. $20 per participant (subsidies available)

Participants take a closer look at their selfself-esteem and sense of identity. ONYX will also explore body awareness and how the media influences today’s young women’s personal beliefs. The program also covers labels that are put on groups or certain people, and how to see and deal with them

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This session will focus on dating. The young women will learn how to differentiate between a healthy and unhealthy relationship, and what to do if they find themselves in difficult situations. The participants will also learn how to set healthy sexual boundaries, that will help them through school and life.

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The participants will share experiences about their relationships with family and friends, and will learn appropriate skills to make new friends. This will be helpful to those youth who have had experienced abusive or hurtful relationships. Many young women use bullying or peer pressure to intimidate soso-called friends into doing what they want. This is discussed in the group, to help participants deal with the pressures of friendship.

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Seeing as the ONYX program touches on some sensitive issues for young women, SAFFRON has made sure that a Youth Therapist is available to all participants in need of short term intervention. This therapist can appropriately decide on a course of action after seeing the young woman, and can adequately refer to an appropriate service within the community. Five sessions are available to the girls, free of charge for those who require additional support.

The participants will learn and teach one another different healthy methods and skills for dealing with anger, stress and other emotions. They will learn how to recognize the signs their bodies reveal when feeling these emotions, and how to apply the coping skills that they will learn.

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