KiT’S PLACE
Kit’s Place is a community-based centre providing services to sexual assault victims and their families. Using a client-centred approach in a child-friendly, safe environment, Kit’s Place is designed to be a one-stop service model, which means families can access all the services they need in one place. This ensures collaborative, coordinated help for victims and their families, and minimizes the trauma by limiting the number of interviews with the victim.
Our services are delivered by a partnership of trusted agencies, who have the proper resources for investigation, treatment, management, and prosecution of child and youth sexual abuse.
What is a CYAC?
A CYAC, is a safe place for children and families, providing community-based, culturally-competent, child and youth-focused multidisciplinary services with respect to the investigation, treatment and prosecution of child and youth sexual maltreatment and abuse.
Kit’s Place is New Brunswick’s second CYAC, and it serves the greater Saint John region in Southwestern New Brunswick. Planning for the centre began in 2019, when the Canadian Department of Justice announced funding in support of the development of a Saint John-based CYAC with Family Plus as the lead agency (opening in 2022).
Kit’s Place’s one-stop service delivery model means victims and families can access all the services they need, in one location, including:
· Medical examinations and follow up
· Mental health therapy and counselling
· Social work supports
· Access to legal services
· Access to educational supports
· Victim’s rights advocacy
Here is what some of our partners have to say:
Kennebecasis Regional Police Force
Family Plus Board of Directors
Scott DeJong, Co-Chair
Dept. Justice and Public Safety
Keri Goldsworthy, Victim Service Coordinator
Department of Social Development
Christine Brittain, Program Delivery Manager
Saint John Police Force
Sgt. Lori Magee, Family Protection Unit
New Brunswick: Crown Prosecutors
Kennebecasis Regional Police Force
Insp. Anika Becker, Senior Leadership Team
Child and Youth Advocate’s Office
Christian Whalen, Deputy Advocate, Senior Legal Council
Anglophone South School District
Zoë Watson, Superintendent
Saint John Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Program
In New Brunswick a police report is filed about the sexual maltreatment of a child almost every single day.*
*In 2016 Statistics Canada reported 342 cases of either sexual assault or sexual violence against children aged 0-17 years.