Men's Intervention Programs
New Start
1568 Hollis Street, #210, Halifax, Nova Scotia, B3J 1V3
Ross Young, Co-Director of Administration
Tel: 902-423-4675
Fax: 902-431-3033
e-mail: newstart@eastlink.ca
New Start Counselling is a non-profit community based program offering education and counselling to men who have used abuse toward their female partners. It also offers education, counselling and support to the partners of the men involved as well as community workshops and public education.
Second Chance
440 George St., Suite L170, Sydney, NS B1P 1K3
Mark Sherlock, Executive Director
Tel: 902-567-0979
Fax: 902-567-6923
e-mail: programsecondchance@hotmail.com
Second Chance Society is a Men's therapeutic/ educational Domestic Violence Counselling Program, clients must be a minium of 19 years of age to enter into the Program. If you are or have been violent in your relationships please call to speak with a counsellor.
New Direction
P.O. Box 1141, Amherst, Nova Scotia, B4H 4L2
Agnes Douglas
Tel: 902-667-1344
Fax: 902-667-4500
e-mail: autumnhouse@ns.aliantzinc.ca
Group support for abusive men who choose to change their behaviours, including safety planning and information on programming for abusive partners, public awareness and public education programs in schools, businesses and various community groups, information and referral programs and services.
Alternatives
PO Box 131, 29 Victoria Road, Bridgewater, N.S., B4V 2W8
Art Fisher, Program Coordinator
Tel: 902-543-7444
Fax: 902-543-0932
e-mail: alternatives@ns.sympatico.ca
New Leaf
P.O. Box 661, New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, B2H 5E7
Bob Whitman & Ron Kelly, Co-Directors
Tel: 902-396-2440
Fax: 902-396-2441
e-mail: newleaf@ns.sympatico.ca
New Leaf offers group counselling for men on the issue of domestic violence, referral to counselling services to women who have been impacted by domestic violence, counselling adolescent males who are showing signs of becoming abusive and doing school presentations on dating violence, healthy relationships, and sexual harassment.
Bridges
2-670 Prince Street, Truro, Nova Scotia, B2N 1G6
Tod Scott, Coordinator
Tel: 902-897-6665
Fax: 902-897-0569
e-mail: bridges@bridgesinstitute.org
Bridges offers anger management and domestic abuse counseling. Bridges is committed to helping people move away from abuse and toward respectful and caring relationships. Bridges focuses on how the decision to use abuse is often influenced by sexism, racism, homophobia and so forth. Bridges is a non-profit organization funded through the Nova Scotia Department of Community Services and private funding.