Optimism Place Women’s Shelter and Support Services supports women alone or with children to live free of abuse by providing shelter and confidential, non-judgmental services. We are committed to ending the cycle of abuse and violence by raising awareness through prevention, intervention, education and advocacy.
VAW Emergency Shelter
Three Oaks Foundation
Three Oaks Foundation offers shelter, transitional housing and services for abused women and their children.
The Redwood
The Redwood provides programs and services to support women and non-binary folks and their children to live and thrive without abuse, homelessness, and poverty. We work for social change through learning, collaboration, and advocacy.
Nova Vita Domestic Violence Prevention Services
Nova Vita works to end interpersonal violence and abuse by supporting individuals and families who have experienced domestic violence, intimate partner violence, or gender-based violence through the provision of crisis intervention, emergency shelter, transitional support, children’s programs, and counselling; and by fostering accountability for those who harm through intervention, counselling, public education, and systemic advocacy.
Hiatus House
Hiatus House strives to break the cycle of domestic violence one family at a time. We do this by providing 24 hour a day crisis intervention and emergency shelter to abused women and their children. In addition, we provide public education, research and specialized counseling services for all family members affected by domestic violence.
Family Transition Place
Family Transition Place – Our Mission is to support the holistic well-being of those affected by gender-based violence and promote healthy relationships and community, through education.
Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis
G-WWIC provides community-based services to women and children on domestic violence, sexual violence and human trafficking.
Marjorie House
Marjorie House is an emergency shelter that works towards a world where all women are safe and equal participants.
Kingston Interval House
Kingston Interval House (KIH) provides essential, responsive, and empowering services to women, children and youth who have experienced the impact of violence against women. KIH seeks to interrupt the cycle of domestic abuse and gender-based violence through the delivery of its core services, which include:
Emergency shelter services
Transitional programs
Community-based outreach and support services
Second-stage housing
Community engagement and capacity building
Haldimand & Norfolk Women’s Services
Haldimand & Norfolk Women’s Services, (HNWS) is dedicated to a non-oppressive social, political and economic environment for women, their children and their communities





