Shediac, N.B. crisis centre hopes to open trauma-informed daycare with Women’s Run funds – New Brunswick | 24CA News
The Courage Centre, a useful resource centre in Shediac, N.B., serving to households in disaster, is hoping to construct the province’s first trauma-informed daycare utilizing funds raised at their Women’s Run on Sunday.
Courage Centre govt director Kristal LeBlanc mentioned the group is hoping to boost round $113,000 via runner registrations and sponsorships.
“It’s like a regular daycare but it’s really specialized toward children that have had a negative, adverse event,” she mentioned of the proposed facility.
“It could be that the child’s been exposed to domestic violence or they’ve been a victim of abuse themselves, or maybe they’ve even lost a loved one to cancer.
“They require a specialized daycare with a lot of art therapy and specialized counselling.”
Roughly 850 runners participated within the run, which is a part of a sequence of runs to profit girls’s psychological well being organized by Shopper’s Drug Mart.
Courage Centre Board of Directors President Lise Cormier was happy with the turnout on Sunday.
“After COVID it was kind of slacking,” she mentioned of attendance on the annual occasion, “but it’s getting back to the hype. Today I felt more of the enthusiasm.”
Cormier mentioned whereas nothing has been set in stone, they’re hoping to open the daycare “in the next couple of years.”
“Depending on the amount of space that we have, we should have probably around 40 to 50 (spaces),” she mentioned.
Lou McNarin college trainer Aimee Lockie ran within the occasion for the primary time this 12 months and mentioned it was a really worthwhile trigger.
“We know it’s for a trauma-informed daycare and that’s really important to us as teachers,” she mentioned.
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