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A’mut is a culture-based, full-time attendance program helping aboriginal girls change the direction of their lives by learning to make healthy choices and develop new skills. Operated from a spacious house on a residential street in Surrey, A’mut is a four-bed residential program designed with the needs and interests of female Indigenous youth in mind. Offered as an alternative to incarceration, A’mut is staffed by a caring team of gender-responsive, trauma-informed professionals that includes a clinical counselor, an art therapist and a First Nations elder. 

Practicum student shadows staff to learn and experience the day-to-day interactions with our population of self-identified female, Indigenous, adjudicated youth, the daily routines of the program and engage in the variety of activities offered.

Located in Burnaby, Transition to New Beginnings, supports pregnant and new moms and babies assessed as having low substance use needs. Workers provide support throughout the day (total 63hr/wk) with case planning, psychoeducational and life skills support, linkage to community resources, housing and transition planning. Women who participate in this program have a self-identified goal of abstinence from substance use, and are supported in this semi-independent living environment.