About...
MAS Social Service Foundation
has trained volunteers from various educational and ethnic backgrounds
to offer peer counseling. Training was conducted by well known experts
and scholars such as Drs. Ekram and Rida Beshir who wrote numerous books
on parenting and marriage; Shahina Siddique, President of the “Islamic
Social Services Association” of Canada; and Dr. Sameera Ahmad, a
clinical psychologist, formerly with Muslim Family Services, Detroit,
MI. Monthly training sessions were also conducted where volunteer peer
counselors practiced role playing, watched counseling videos, enhanced
communication skills, studied ethics code, and listened to guest
speakers in the field.
MAS Social
Services Foundation
is providing a peer counseling service to our community in the following
areas:
§ Parenting Counseling;
§
Marriage
Counseling;
§
Teen Counseling.
Peer counseling services are
offered in English, Arabic, Urdu, Hindi, Fijian, French, Spanish,
Somali, Sinhales, Tamel, Farsi, Pashto, and Sign Languages.
Leave a
message and a counselor will contact you shortly to assess your needs
and make a convenient appointment.
Strict confidentiality is maintained and referral to specialists
and professionals are used for complex counseling cases.
Fees: $10
per counseling session
MAS Social
Service Foundation
is also offering a pre-martial course for engaged and/or married couples
in their first year of marriage. This one-on-one course, 6 sessions – 2
hour each, deals with:
·
Basis of
marriage;
·
Communication;
·
Self-awareness;
·
Spirituality;
·
Finance and
values.
Leave a message
and a counselor will contact you to schedule the course at your
convenience.
Fees: $100 including materials
Long term
plans are being developed to include other areas of counseling.