Main Street Community Services

Individual Counselling
Counselling is provided to individuals and families experiencing personal, social or familial difficulties. Through a research-based approach, the primary focus is on improving the quality of an individual's or family's functioning and life satisfaction. This service may involve enhancing established coping skills, learning new ones, or even coaching an individual through difficult times.

Social Skills Enrichment Training
This program is offered to children ages 4-14 years. In small interactive group sessions, children learn many essential pro-social skills such as understanding and expressing feelings, conflict resolution and problem solving. Using a pro-active and cognitive-behavioural approach to learning, the sessions enable children to build self confidence and develop satisfying relationships by enhancing skill proficiency in areas that foster social competency.

Overnight Respite
Main Street Community Services provides 5 unique developmental respite homes (a home away from home) for children between the ages of 5-18 years with special needs. The goal is to provide parents with a much needed break from their child. Our goal is to support renewed energies and provide a new perspective for families. In a safe and nurturing home environment, children have the opportunity to grow emotionally, socially and cognitively. Our program can also include an extended respite program where children can be provided respite for longer periods of time. During this longer term stay, an individual treatment plan will be designed and implemented. A plan for re-integration back into the home will also be designed for the family.

After School Social Skills Program
The after school program benefits those children needing social skills enrichment. In a fun, safe and therapeutic environment where their individuality and uniqueness is respected and nurtured, children will have the opportunity to develop satisfying interpersonal relationships by enhancing skill proficiency in a variety of areas that foster social competency. Each child and youth will be provided opportunities for sports, recreation, arts and crafts, relaxation, yoga, martial arts and much more. Services will be provided on site and are available from 2 to 6 pm Monday to Friday.

Summer & March Break Camps
At Main Street Community Services, we run two camps throughout the year. First is our larger Discovered Treasures Day Camp which runs for 6 weeks in the summer and serves over 200 children each year. Our Discovered Treasures Summer Camp offers children a chance to enjoy a number of sports; recreation and leisure activities; Martial Arts; arts and crafts; as well as relaxation training to help the children improve skills in related areas such as mental imagery, focus and shifting focus. All elements of the program are inclusive of the cost of registration and are made available to every child over the course of the summer. Second is our March Break Camp, which has limited enrollment. This camp offers the same opportunities as the Discovered Treasures Summer Camp, including sports and recreation, leisure activities, Martial Arts, and relaxation training to help improve social skills. Registration for March Break Camp begins in January of the new year.

CAMP STAFF — All staff are university/college educated and trained (including dedicated Developmental Service workers, Social workers and Teachers) with several years of direct experience in this field. The Executive Director, a clinical counsellor and a behavioural specialist are on hand always and have a Master’s level of education.

Developmental Day Program
Our Developmental Day Program serves children with higher, complex needs such as non verbal children with Autism, Acquired Brain Injury and Developmental Disabilities. This program focuses on identifying the individual child’s needs and strengths. In a highly structured, supportive and predictable environment, children will have opportunities to develop qualitative play skills and daily living skills by enhancing communication, socialization and decreasing challenging behaviours. This program involves a 2:1 ratio, child to staff.

Interpersonal Communications Skills Training
Improve personal and/or professional relationships by actively participating in group discussions and exercises designed to develop effective verbal, listening and nonverbal skills. Enhance the impact and outcome of your communication through active listening and by learning various simple yet effective strategies that result in better comprehension and improved confidence.

Teen Talk
Teen talk is a group mediated program lead by a qualified clinician. Youth between the ages of 15-17 years will have opportunities to meet with other youth and discuss topics and issues that they face in their everyday adolescent lives. Topics may include: stress and coping, self esteem, depression, teen dating, peer pressure and much more.