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Located near Greater Sudbury
Distance: 200km
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Short Description
- 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
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- 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
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Shelter for Victims of Family Violence
1-888-889-5927 Office: 705-859-1543
Crisis: 9-1-1
Wikwemikong Tribal Police Service: 705-859-3141
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Provides a residential shelter for individuals experiencing family violence
Offers the following services:
Offers the following services:
- 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
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Provides a 10-bed, short-term emergency residence for women, with or without children, who have been victims of physical or sexual abuse, desertion or eviction, or pregnancy
Services include:
Services include:
- 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
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Operates a shelter for abused women and their children who have been victims of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse
Provides women with access to:
Provides women with access to:
- 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
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- Offers a 20 bed shelter for women and their children
- 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)
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- Operates an emergency women's shelter
- 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
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Operates an emergency shelter for abused women and their children
- 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)
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Operates an emergency men's shelter
- 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
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Women's Shelter
1-800-363-4588 Office: 807-854-1529
Crisis: 807-854-1571
Toll Free: 1-800-265-7317
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Short Description
- 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
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Offers emergency shelter and assistance for women in crisis, abused women and their children. Services and programs are voluntary, free of charge and confidential.
Residential Services include:
Residential Services include:
- 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)
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- 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
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Operates a short term 10-bed emergency shelter for women who have been victims of physical, emotional, sexual or financial abuse, and their children
Services provided include:
Transitional Support Services include:
- 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 include:
- Counselling
- Educational upgrading
- Health and wellness services
- Housing
- Income support
- Job training
- Legal assistance/legal aid
- Parental support
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- Operates a 10 bed emergency shelter for all women in crisis with or without children
- Helps women who have been physically or emotionally assaulted, threatened, or harassed, or are in a crisis situation
- Provides confidential counselling, information and referral, and victim advocacy
- Offers a transitional housing program
- Provides school programs and public education
- Provides First Walk (First Nation People teachings)
- Has a clothing room and children's playroom
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One of two shelters in Muskoka for abused women (with or without children). Second location is Muskoka Interval House (MIH) in Bracebridge, 1-800-461-1740 or 705-645-4461.
Safe, short-term shelter, 24 hour phone support/ 24 hour staffing, child and youth programming, outreach support, support groups, assistance with navigating the legal system, accompaniment and advocacy, safety planning, risk assessment, practical needs assistance.
10 supportive transitional apartments for vulnerable women and children available.
Safe, short-term shelter, 24 hour phone support/ 24 hour staffing, child and youth programming, outreach support, support groups, assistance with navigating the legal system, accompaniment and advocacy, safety planning, risk assessment, practical needs assistance.
10 supportive transitional apartments for vulnerable women and children available.
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Short Description
- 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
- Holds public education and information sessions
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COVID-19 (18 Nov 2021): Due to COVID19, programming is on hold but shelter remains in operation.
21-bed Aboriginal specific shelter
21-bed Aboriginal specific shelter
- provides a safe and supportive environment
- 24-hour residential support
- advocacy
- individual and group counselling
- community/transitional support
- housing support
- referrals
- legal advocacy and support
- cultural and spiritual programs
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