To support individuals and families by providing resources, advocacy and education through the agency’s three program areas of Violence Against Women Prevention, Children’s Services, and Emergency Food Assistance.
Sex workers
Community Family Services of Ontario
Community Family Services of Ontario is recognized as the premier provider of family services to support our community, where all families live in a safe and harmonious environment. We helps build a safe and harmonious community by providing professional counselling, settlement, disabilities, and special needs services to individuals and families in need.
Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region
We support survivors of sexual violence.
We listen, facilitate healing, and celebrate resiliency. Using an anti-racist, intersectional feminist approach, we work to transform systems which promote gender-based violence.
Women’s Hostels Inc. (Nellie’s)
Nellie’s operates a 38-bed emergency shelter for women and children who are homeless and women and children leaving violence, and also a community support and outreach program for low income and socially isolated women and children in the community. Nellie’s is a community-based feminist women’s organization committed to social justice and anti-oppression. We have been serving the community since 1973. Year after year, we help women rebuild their lives by providing access to counseling, information and appropriate referrals, and by providing advocacy and support in areas such as legal and income assistance, training, education and housing.
Interval House of Hamilton
Interval House of Hamilton consists of the Victoria & Friends emergency 22-bed shelter and community-based programs for women and their children who are experiencing gender-based violence, abuse, and/or human trafficking. Our mission is violence free lives for all women, children, and communities.
Safety Network Durham
Safety Network Durham provides a centralized place in that multiple different agencies come together in one location to support the multiple needs of women affected by gender-based violence (i.e counselling, housing, legal support, financial support, etc).
Armagh
Armagh provides women and their children with the best possible opportunity to overcome the devastating effects of abuse.
Lennox and Addington Interval House
Lennox and Addington Interval House offer emergency shelter, crisis line services, transitional housing, outreach, and transitional support to women and children impacted by gender based violence. Our vision is a world where all women and children live in homes free of violence and fear.
METRAC: Action on Violence
METRAC works to end gender-based violence across communities through education, research and policies.
Inasmuch House, Mission Services of Hamilton
Our Philosophy
Inasmuch House operates out of an anti-racist, anti-oppressive, intersectional feminist framework that is trauma-informed and client-centred.