Searching for Shelter For Abused Women

• Provides a 24-hour crisis line
• Offers short-term support counselling and transitional housing
• Provides advocacy and referrals to appropriate community supports and resources
• Provides outreach services such as understanding options in making life choices and offering assistance in accessing housing, legal and other community services

• Larry's Place Men's Shelter
• On-site Pet Shelter, including a Pet Therapy program
• Something More Lawrence House (second-stage housing)

• Offers a six-bed two-storey home for displaced men and their children
• Includes a garage, two common rooms, a full kitchen and private backyard
• Provides access to the programs/services (such as advocacy and counselling) offered through the Women's Shelter

• Provides public education workshops and seminars to raise awareness about the issues and impacts of violence against women and children
• Gratefully accepts donations of money, furniture, lightly used clothing or any household items or appliances

• 24-hour crisis line
• Advocacy
• Child Support Worker
• Counselling support
• Court accompaniment and referrals
• Emergency transportation
• Referral to community services
• Transition and safety planning

• Counselling
• Educational upgrading
• Health and wellness services
• Housing
• Income support
• Job training
• Legal assistance/legal aid
• Parental support

• Advocacy
• Crisis management
• Safety planning
• Short term counselling
• Rights information
• Transitional support which includes help with housing, employment, financial aid, and court support
• Violence prevention strategies

• Safety, protection and shelter in a supportive healing environment
• Accommodations consist of 13 bedrooms (includes two family suites) with a total of 17 beds for women, men, children, youth and families
• Intervention and group or individual crisis counselling
• Traditional teaching circles including Elders Circle
• Education about the cycle of violence
• Promotion of health/personal self care
• Advocacy and referrals to other supports
• Aftercare family support services

• Offers overnight shelter and the basic essentials required to be safe during a crisis time
• Provides a 24-hour crisis line

• Operates an emergency shelter for women who have been victims of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse, and their children
• Supports older women who are escaping abuse from a live-in caregiver
• Operates Brookwood Apartments

• Crisis intervention
• Counselling to women and children
• Referrals to other resources
• Safety planning
• Transitional and housing support
• Family Court Support Worker Program

Operates a 24-bed emergency shelter for women and children who have been affected by abuse and violence

Offers the following services:

• Advocacy
• Assistance in finding housing
• In-House Child Care
• Parenting Skills
• Short and Long-Term Counselling

Sexual Assault Centre

Crisis intervention and culturally sensitive counselling, supports and referrals

• a 24 hour telephone crisis line
• individual counselling and support groups
• legal support, advocacy, information, and referrals
• court support, accompaniment and advocacy program
• information on alternatives to legal justice system
• public education and training to end gender based violence in our community
• all services confidential
• Trans/ gender diverse positive environment

• Operates a 24-bed emergency shelter for women who have been victims of physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, and their children
• Offers long-term and crisis counselling for women who have been victims of sexual assault or abuse both current and historic
• Offers educational groups on topics such as self-esteem, self worth, exploring the cycle of violence, healthy relationships, safety planning, housing, and advocacy
• Offers client referrals for counselling and to government services
• Provides community education and awareness on the issues of abuse
• Provides on site child care for women who are residents of the shelter for court dates, doctors appointments, group sessions
• Offers on site child care for non-resident women during group sessions, Call for information on programs offering this service
• Offers parenting support and counselling sessions
• Offers a Family Court Support Worker Program

Note: A woman does not have to be a resident of the centre to access these services

• Provides a short-term emergency shelter for women, with or without children, who are leaving an abusive situation, who are in a housing emergency, or other crisis situation
• Assists with crisis intervention
• Provides information and help with legal aid, financial assistance, and apartment searching
• Assists in making a safety plan
• Outreach program offers assistance with the judicial system

• emergency Shelter for women

• 24 hours crisis phone line
• crisis intervention
• supportive counselling
• safety planning
• information and referrals
• legal advocacy and accompaniment to court and legal and Crown appointments

• Community Outreach
• Transitional and Housing Support Program
• Children's Voices (a program for children who have been exposed to domestic violence)

• Assistance with crisis intervention
• Assistance in making a safety plan
• Child care for women attending appointments
• Home visits for those who are unwilling or unable to visit the shelter
• Individual counselling
• Information and help with legal aid, financial assistance, and apartment searching
• Outreach
• Referral to other community agencies
• Transitional support
• Transportation to access the shelter

• Provides a 24-hour support line
• Provides emergency transportation to women living outside the community who need to come to the shelter
• Provides accompaniment to appointments
• Provides access and referral to available community resources
• Supports women in obtaining clothing, furniture and household items when in need
• Provides an emergency food cupboard for women accessing shelter services
• Offers women's support groups
• Offers a resource library
• Provides public education and presentations on abuse

• Crisis Lines: Crisis telephone lines, and text line are available 24/7
• Emergency Shelter: The 24/7 emergency shelter services are open for women and children fleeing partner abuse
• Housing: The Transitional Housing Worker supports clients to find long term housing
• Counselling: Supportive Counselling services are available to shelter clients
• Second Stage Residential Housing Program: Available to families and single women
• Child and Youth Programs: Available to shelter and second stage clients
• Outreach Services: Workshops, and Educational Groups are available weekly
• Women's Legal Advocate: Clients who separate from their partners are assisted with the family court process
• The Anti-Human Trafficking Program For Youth: Shelter, counselling and court support services

• Offers a 20 bed shelter for women and their children fleeing all forms of abuse, including emotional, financial, psychological, sexual etc
• Maintains 11 bedrooms including two larger bedrooms and an accessible bedroom
• Offers a laundry room, a kitchen, a playroom, and a dining room
• Provides support and crisis counselling as well as safety planning
• Assists women with searching for housing
• Provides emergency transportation if needed to get an individual safely to the shelter for admission (call the 24 hour crisis line to make arrangements)

• Operates transitional housing for women and their children fleeing any type of abuse
• Manages a crisis support line

• Intake assessment to determine appropriate services and referrals
• Assistance in managing the needs of children within the shelter
• Assistance with the development of a personal safety plan
• Crisis and support counselling (adult and child)
• Community education on shelter and issues of abuse
• Follow-up after leaving the shelter

• 24 Hour Helpline
• Family Court Support Worker program
• Transitional and Housing Support Program
• Second Stage Housing
• Women's Outreach

• Operates a 10-bed shelter for abused women and their children who have been victims of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse
• Offers a 24 hour crisis line
• Provides confidential counseling, court accompaniment and safety planning
• Provides advocacy services if needed

• Operates an emergency shelter for women and their children
• Manages a 24-hour crisis support line

• Advocacy and referrals to other agencies
• Risk assessment and safety planning
• Assistance with custody and child support issues
• Assistance with finding housing
• Assistance with financial support

Crisis intervention and culturally sensitive counselling, supports and referrals

• a 24 hour telephone crisis line
• individual counselling and support groups
• legal support, advocacy, information, and referrals
• court support, accompaniment and advocacy program
• information on alternatives to legal justice system
• public education and training to end gender based violence in our community
• all services confidential
• Trans/ gender diverse positive environment

Operates a sexual assault centre and a shelter for women and their children who have been victims of violence. Provides advocacy and follow-up services where possible.

Services offered under the program include the following:

• Crisis intervention
• Emergency Shelter
• Human Trafficking Program
• Individual and group counselling
• Security planning
• Support groups
• Transitional housing and support services
• Child Witness Program

• Operates a short term emergency shelter for women and children in need
• Manages a 24-hour crisis line for emotional support and assistance to women and their children
• Offers sexual assault counselling for women over 16
• Provides support for victims of elder abuse
• Provides advocacy and accompaniment (court, lawyer, police, etc)
• Holds public education and information sessions

• room to accommodate up to 13 women and children
• assists women facing a housing crisis

• for residents
• individual and group counselling

• offers individual and group counselling for children ages 4 to 18. Helps children heal from the experience of witnessing woman abuse and meet other children who have also experienced family violence. Gives mothers the chance to be supported as they help their children heal.

• offers individual counselling for women 16 years and over who are experiencing abuse or healing from abuse in Bruce and Grey counties. Child care and transportation can be arranged in advance.

• Transitional Support Worker assists women by acting as an advocate for resources within the community in the areas of housing, education, job training, income support, legal aid and legal representation, Children's Aid advocacy, transportation and child care.

• works collaboratively alongside youth throughout Bruce/Grey County who have experienced, or been exposed to, sexual violence or human trafficking.

A women and children's shelter that provides support in many areas including Therapeutic Counselling, Housing, Legal Advocacy, and programming for Children and Youth.

Services include:

• Therapeutic Counselling
• Transitional Housing and Legal Support Program
• Children's Program
• Youth Program
• 24 hour Crisis Line for support
• Shelter Program

All services can be provide as an outreach as well.