The Journey Project - NL

05/06/2026

Our St. John's staff are heading back to End Sexual Violence NL on Wednesday, May 20th for another Community Care session.
It's been a hard season for so many - collective care helps resist collective trauma.

📣Join us for an afternoon of Community Care 📣

Sexual Violence impacts us all. Maybe you're going though something personally, maybe you're overwhelmed by stories of sexual violence in the media, or maybe you just want to make a rad button that shows your support to survivors. Whatever that case we're here for you!

End Sexual Violence NL and The Journey Project - NL are teaming up to host an afternoon of support, healing, and connection for survivors and supporters. There will be snacks, crafts, and folks available to chat.

⏰When: Wednesday, May 20th 2026 from 1pm-4pm

📍Where: 15 Hallett Crescent, Suite 101

⚧ Who: Everyone is welcome!

♿️Accessibility: While our office is fairly physically accessible, there is a small (1inch) lip at the font door.

05/04/2026

🔷Trauma-Informed Practice - For Lawyers - *CLE Opportunity
Friday, May 15, 2026
9:00am - 12:30pm

✨The Journey Project Legal Support Service (JPLSS) is a collaboration between the Journey Project team and trained lawyers who are interested in supporting survivors of sexual violence and intimate partner violence in Newfoundland and Labrador.

🌿The JPLSS offers survivors 4 hours of free-to-them legal advice from trained, private practice lawyers. Lawyers are compensated for their time spent directly consulting with clients referred by the Legal Support Navigators.

📑Lawyers who wish to participate in this program must participate in a free half-day training session on supporting survivors through a trauma-informed lens. A virtual training is being offered on Friday, May 15 from 9:00am – 12:30pm. This training offers a unique opportunity to build the skills and knowledge of legal professionals and make practicing lawyers eligible to join the Journey Project Legal Support Service.

📍Training will cover:
- identifying and understanding trauma and its impacts
- the neurobiology of trauma
- rationale and principles of trauma-informed lawyering
- trauma-informed responses to disclosures
- burnout, empathic strain, and vicarious trauma

🆓This seminar is free and, *subject to the provisions of the Law Society's Mandatory Continuing Legal Education Requirements, may constitute 3.5 hours of eligible CLE activities.

To register visit:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/May2026TIL

For more information contact
Janet Lee, Provincial Director
📱709-986-2801
💻[email protected]

04/29/2026

Please be advised that we believe one of our email accounts ([email protected]) was recently compromised.

If you have received an unexpected or unusual email from this email address, or from any other Journey Project or Public Legal Information Association of Newfoundland and Labrador (PLIAN) email, particularly one that includes a suspicious link, please do not click any links or download any attachments.
We recommend deleting the message.

We are actively addressing the issue and have taken additional steps to secure our systems. We are working with IT support and are continuing to monitor the situation closely out of an abundance of caution.

If you’re unsure whether a message is legitimate, feel free to contact us directly at 709-722-2805.

Thank you for your understanding and we apologize for any inconvenience caused.

04/16/2026

🧐Looking to learn more about Clare’s Law & Emergency Protection Orders (EPOs)?

💻Join us virtually for a free information session! We’re offering the same session 6 times, so you only need to register for one date!📅

April 22, 2026 | 10:30 AM NDT / 10:00AM ADT
April 30, 2026 | 2:30 PM NDT / 2:00 PM ADT
May 7, 2026 | 6:00 PM NDT / 5:30 PM ADT
May 13, 2026| 10:30 AM NDT / 10:00AM ADT
May 20, 2026 | 2:30 PM NDT / 2:00 PM ADT
May 28, 2026 | 6:00 PM NDT / 5:30 PM ADT

🔷Register by scanning the QR code on our poster, or by using the link here: https://bit.ly/TJPClareEPO

🔶These sessions will be held in Zoom webinar format to support privacy. Participants will not be visible to one another, and audio/video will remain off. Chat and questions will go directly to the hosts only.

💜Open to survivors, community members, and service providers.

📲For more information, contact Martina by
Call or text – 709 217 6824
Email – [email protected]

📍Learn more about EPOs here: https://journeyproject.ca/epo/

04/13/2026

"LEAF-NL is partnering with The Journey Project for an informative workshop and community social in celebration of Equality Day. Join us in-person this Friday, April 17th from 10am – 12pm at the St. John’s City Hall Foran Room for a free event!

Ashley MacDonald and Janet Lee with The Journey Project will be presenting their workshop Parallel Paths – Reclaiming Stories, Redefining Justice, a mixed-media presentation exploring how survivor-lead, trauma-informed legal supports and creative expression intersect to help survivors of gender-based violence reclaim their stories and redefine justice. After the workshop Ashley and Janet will be available for a Q&A session.

RSVP & Details available here - https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/leaf-nl-equality-day-event-workshop-with-the-journey-project-tickets-1985521532352

04/08/2026

We want to send a big thank you to our two Bachelor of Social Work students who have just completed their final placements with the Journey Project!

Hailing from Burgeo on the southwest coast of Newfoundland, Jordan (she/her) completed a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology before pursuing social work. She completed her first social work practicum at The Gathering Place and has a strong interest in theory and its connection to practice. During her time at the Journey Project, Jordan was grateful for the opportunity to learn more about legal systems through hearing directly from clients, and how to better support survivors of intimate partner violence and gender-based violence. Her final presentation focused on decoloniality in social work practice and practicing allyship with Indigenous survivors. In her free time, Jordan enjoys watching pop culture commentary videos, playing video games, and reading on her Kobo.

Coming to our St. John’s office all the way from Mount Pearl, Lauryn (she/her) completed her first BSW placement at Stella’s Circle and continued working at The Gathering Place as a guest support worker during her time with us. These experiences have fostered a strong passion and commitment to community-based social work practice. While at the Journey Project, Lauryn built meaningful connections with survivors, working from a trauma-informed lens and advocating for access to justice. Her final project focused on expanding training for teaching and childcare professionals on providing supportive responses to disclosures of sexual violence from children. In her downtime, you can find her playing with her dogs, listening to Fleetwood Mac, or tending to her ever-growing plant collection.

We are so grateful for the care, thoughtfulness, and dedication Lauryn and Jordan brought to their placements. We wish them all the best in their next chapters!

03/31/2026

Our organization, Public Legal Information Association of Newfoundland and Labrador, is hiring a Youth Justice Camp Coordinator for the summer!
This position is based in our St. John's office and, while there's lots to do, they will be primarily responsible for organizing and facilitating Youth Justice Camps in St. John’s and Happy Valley-Goose Bay this summer!
For more information, see the PLIAN post below!

The Public Legal Information Association of NL (PLIAN) is welcoming applications for a dynamic, motivated, and independent student to work […]

02/12/2026

🎉We are deeply relieved to share that one-time funding will allow the Journey Project to continue providing services without interruption until at least March 2027. This means survivors will continue to have uninterrupted access to trauma-informed legal navigation, plain-language legal information, and free legal advice while navigating complex legal systems.

🔷We also want to acknowledge the uncertainty of the past months and how not knowing if our services would continue may have caused anxiety or a sense of instability. We felt it too. Survivors of sexual violence and intimate partner violence deserve consistent, reliable legal support they can trust. This news provides essential short-term stability and allows us to keep showing up in the ways you have told us matter most.

🔶At the same time, we want to be transparent. Long-term, sustainable investment is still needed. Since launching in 2018, our legal support service has supported more than 1,675 survivors while working alongside communities to increase access to justice in every corner of Newfoundland & Labrador. We will continue to advocate for stable, long-term funding so this program can not only continue, but grow to meet the needs of survivors across the province.

✨We also want to thank every person and community partner who wrote letters of support and shared their voices. Your advocacy and care made a difference.
Above all, we thank the survivors who teach us how to hold on to hope on the hardest of days. You have taught us how to do this work. Thank you for trusting us. We are so grateful to still be here for you.

💜The Journey Team

02/09/2026

✨We’re excited to share a new resource for survivors navigating family court after intimate partner violence.

🔷This guide brings together plain language legal information about safety planning, family law, court processes, and related legal issues in Newfoundland and Labrador. If you’re not sure whether it’s the right fit for you, a short summary is available on our website outlining what each section covers, with links to a downloadable copy if you want to go deeper.

🔶Whether you’re just starting to look for information or supporting someone else, this resource is here to help make a complex system a little more understandable.
Visit https://journeyproject.ca/family-court-beyond-a-guide-for-survivors-of-intimate-partner-violence-navigating-family-court/ to access the guide!

💛We are incredibly grateful to our Ontario partners at Luke's Place Support & Resource Centre for Women & Children for making this publication possible. A significant amount of content within this resource has been adapted with permission from Luke’s Place to align with the needs of people in Newfoundland and Labrador.

12/22/2025

👋We’ve been quieter than usual here over the past couple of months. Much of our time and energy has been focused where it’s most needed - supporting active clients and advocating with funders for the continuation of our services.

🌟While we don’t yet have any substantive updates about what things will look like in the spring, the survivors we work with every day remind us that the only way forward is one step at a time.

🌿As the year winds down, we want to share a few important resources and reminders:

📌Holiday Office Closure
The Journey Project office will be closing for the holidays at 12:00 p.m. on December 23, and will reopen at 9am on January 5.

✨The holidays can be a complicated time for many people, for many different reasons. If you need support during this time, please know that you are not alone and that there are people you can talk to.

📞24/7 support options include:
• End Sexual Violence NL: 1-800-726-2743
• Domestic Violence HelpLine: 1-888-709-7090
• Kids Help Phone: 1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868
• Provincial Mental Health Crisis Line: 811
• Emergency Housing Line: 1-833-724-2444
• Su***de Crisis Helpline: Call or text 988
• First Nations & Inuit Hope for Wellness Help Line: 1-855-242-3310

📞Additional support options:
• LifeWise Peer Support Warm Line (non-emergency): 1-855-753-2560
• First Responders Warm Line: 1-709-237-4180
• 2SLGBTQIA+ Warm Line: Call or text 1-866-230-8041

Legal information and publications are always available on our website www.journeyproject.ca

Take care of yourselves and each other - we’ll be back in the new year with more updates to share. 💜