Please Note: Services may be impacted in response to COVID-19 (Coronavirus).
Please contact any service prior to visiting in person to receive up to date information on changes to their availability (e.g. hours of operation etc.)
Please contact any service prior to visiting in person to receive up to date information on changes to their availability (e.g. hours of operation etc.)
Women's Shelter
Naotkamegwanning/Whitefish Bay First Nation
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Office: 807-226-2605
Crisis: 807-226-2603
Short Description
Operates a short-term emergency shelter for abused women and their children
- Provides a 24-hour crisis line
- Accommodates a maximum of 10 individuals
- Helps women understand options to assist in making life choices
- Offers assistance in accessing housing, legal and other community services
- Offers individual counselling
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Emergency Women's Shelter
Dryden
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Office: 807-223-7311
Crisis: 807-223-3226
Short Description
- Operates a 24/7 emergency shelter for abused women and their children
- Coordinates support services for residents
- Provides a 24-hour crisis line
- Accepts donations of clothing and household items
- Provides guidance and assistance in accessing geared-to-income housing in community
- Offers a Family Court Support Worker Program
Offers a secure ten unit apartment building that provides safe, affordable housing for women and their children
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Women's Emergency Shelter
Kenora
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Office: 807-468-1889
Crisis: 807-468-5491
Short Description
- Operates crisis housing for women leaving an abusive situation
- Provides a 24-hour crisis line
- Provides crisis transportation and transportation between facilities
- Offers individual counselling and referral to residents
- Assists women and children with primary health needs through weekly visits from a Nurse Practitioner
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Emergency Women's Shelter
Sioux Lookout
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Office: 807-737-1438
Crisis: 807-737-1438
Short Description
- Provides emergency shelter and support for abused women and their children
- Offers a 24-hour crisis intervention line
- Provides long and short term counselling as well as sexual assault counselling
- Offers transitional housing and support including emergency clothing
- Provides information and referral
- Covers transportation costs when necessary
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Emergency Women's Shelter
Red Lake
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Office: 807-727-2820
Crisis: 807-727-3303
Short Description
- Offers emergency shelter for abused women and their children
- Provides emergency transportation to the shelter
- Offers a 24-hour crisis line
- Provides counselling to women and children
- Facilitates safety planning
- Provides crisis intervention
- Advocates and offers support to victims of sexual assault
- Provides information about legal and housing rights
- Offers community education and awareness
- Laundry facilities
- Prepared dinner meals
- Communal living environment where residents assist with chores
- Outside playground for children
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District Women's Shelter
Atikokan
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Office: 807-597-2868
Crisis: 807-597-6908
Short Description
- Operates a 10-bed emergency shelter for abused women and their children
- Coordinates support services for clients
- Provides a 24-hour crisis line
- Accepts donations of clothing and household items
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New Horizons Second Stage Housing Program
Atikokan
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Office: 807-597-4550
Crisis: 807-597-6908
Short Description
New Horizons 2nd Stage Housing
- Offers a secure ten unit apartment building that provides temporary (up to one year), safe, affordable housing for women and their children
- Offers a variety of support services
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Administration
Fort William First Nation (306km)
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Office: 807-622-1121
100 Anemki Dr, Suite 103
Fort William First Nation, ON, P7J 1J4
Fort William First Nation, ON, P7J 1J4
Short Description
Provides safety and shelter to Indigenous women and children experiencing abuse
Provides women and children with a variety of services, including:
Provides women and children with a variety of services, including:
- Assessment to determine needs
- Counselling
- Crisis support line
- Follow-up after leaving the shelter
- Referrals to other community programs
- Personal safety plan
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Anishinabe Women's Crisis Home
Thunder Bay
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Office: 807-346-4357
Short Description
- Provides emergency shelter for women and children who require safe accommodations and are seeking refuge from abuse
- Allows women and children to stay up to 6 weeks
- Crisis and supportive counselling
- Safety planning
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Women's Shelter
Thunder Bay
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Office: 807-345-0450
Crisis: 807-345-0450
Text: 807-700-5011
Short Description
- Operates a shelter for abused women, youth and their children who have been victims of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse
- Provides crisis services, confidential counselling, information and referral, and victim advocacy
- Provides public education and follow-up services where possible
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Women's Shelter
Mishkeegogamang
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Office: 807-928-2407
Crisis: 807-928-2407
Short Description
Operates a short term emergency shelter for women who have been victims of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse, and their children
Services provided include:
Transitional Support Services
Provides assistance in safety planning for women and their children through the following services:
- 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
Services provided include:
- 24-hour crisis line
- Advocacy
- Child Support Worker
- Counselling support
- Court accompaniment and referrals
- Emergency transportation
- Referral to community services
- Transition and safety planning
Transitional Support Services
Provides assistance in safety planning for women and their children through the following services:
- Counselling
- Educational upgrading
- Health and wellness services
- Housing
- Income support
- Job training
- Legal assistance/legal aid
- Parental support
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