WITS Primary Program

This is a school program aimed at children in the first to third grades of elementary school who are at risk of peer victimization.
Teachers take part in a mini-training course online with access to children’s books, activities to reinforce the program’s messages in the classroom, and information on literacy techniques, vocabulary-building, songs, and other activities.

Domestic Abuse Intervention Project (DAIP) - The Duluth Model

This is an cross-sector program to monitor victims of domestic violence and their aggressors.
The criminal and civil justice sectors and social assistance and humanitarian service providers coordinate actions to make communities safer for victims at two levels of attention:
1) Coordinated community response, where protection and rehabilitation services aimed at providing care to women and their families are activated;

KEEP (Keeping Foster and Kinship Parents Supported and Trained)

A psychoeducation program for adoptive parents that provides effective strategies for dealing with their children’s behavioral and emotional problems.
Parents learn methods for creating a safe environment, encouraging children’s cooperation, establishing consequences for children’s behavior, and setting effective limits. There are also sessions on managing difficult problems, including covert behaviors, promoting school success, promoting positive peer relationships, and strategies for managing stress caused by institutional care.

Nurturing Parenting Program for Parents and Their School-age Children 5 to 11 Years

This is a program for families with children from 5 to 12 years old aimed at developing parenting skills and preventing violence against children.
Parents and their children attend separate groups that meet simultaneously. Before and after the intervention, caregivers complete two validated tests to measure its effect. The therapist discusses the results with the family and proposes an intervention plan.

Sobriety Treatment and Recovery Teams (START)

This is an intensive child protection program to monitor families with substance use problems and a history of child maltreatment.
The intervention seeks:
1) To ensure the child’s safety;
2) To keep children at home with their parents whenever safe and possible;
3) Permanence of the child preferably with one or both parents, or, if this is not possible, with a family member;
4) Parents’ sobriety in time to meet program requirements;
5) To improve parents’ ability to care for their children and perform essential life tasks;

Pace Center for Girls

This service offers a set of gender-sensitive prevention and early intervention programs and activities to address the multiple risk factors for adolescent girls’ involvement in the justice system, such as academic failure, chronic absenteeism, and dropping out of school.
It follows a method focused on trauma and the emergence of associated behavioral problems, and prioritizes the formation of a supportive environment that pays more attention to adolescent girls’ strengths rather than their weaknesses.

Support for Students Exposed to Trauma (SSET)

This is a school program with a cognitive behavioral approach and group activities aimed at children and adolescents between the ages of 10 and 16 who have been exposed to traumatic events (neglect, abuse, violence, accidents, environmental tragedies) and who show symptoms of post-traumatic stress. The aim is to reduce the symptoms of post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depression, among others.