Searching for Victims Of Abuse Support Programs

Offers healing, employment and training supports to men and women who have experienced or are at-risk of violence

• Delivers training sessions and workshops to empower individuals to achieve higher levels of training, education, or employment on the journey to economic independence
• Creates an individualized work and training plan tailored to participant's needs
• Promotes district-wide awareness and sensitivity to the barriers faced by individuals who experience violence

Offers the following:

• ABC Approach to Healing Your Life: Acknowledging your Past, Believe in Yourself, and Create your Future
• Computer and Numeracy Skills: Microsoft Suite, and Numeracy Skills
• Empowering Paths Program Supports: Peer Support withing Warming Centre linking individuals with community services, and giving men in community an opportunity to experience True Self's holistic healing approaches
• True Paths: Offers men and women in outlying communities an opportunity to experience True Self's Holistic healing approaches and to empower individuals to move forward with education and employment goals

Community Workshops available:

• Defining Domestic Violence
• Women's Wellness Workshop
• Great Attitude, Great Future
• Lateral Violence
• Walking the Medicine Wheel with our Personal Finances

• Offers a 12 week group education and counselling program on domestic violence and non-abusive ways of resolving conflict
• Offers victims/partners of the offender support including safety planning, referrals to community resources and information on offender's progress

Note: Operates a satellite program in Timiskaming

Offers a large variety of counselling services

General Counselling

• Offers individual, couple and family counselling

Counselling may be provided for but not limited to:

• Anger Management
• Adjustment difficulties
• Mild depression
• Relationship problems
• Stress
• Trauma
• Sexual Assault for Men

Abuse Counselling

• Offers individual and group counselling

Sexual Abuse Counselling (for women only)

• Offers education, group therapy, and one-on-one counselling

• Operates an emergency women's shelter
• Manages a crisis support line

Offers the following services:

• 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

Provides the following programs:

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

• Offers on-site early intervention and crisis intervention
• Provides needs assessment, safety planning and referrals to community services
• Offers enhanced support for vulnerable victims
• Provides assistance with applications to VQRP+

Victim Quick Response Program+ (VQRP+)

Provides assistance with emergency expenses related to the eligible incident, including:

• home safety
• accommodation
• meals
• transportation
• basic necessities
• dependent care costs
• counselling
• traditional Indigenous health services
• cellular phones
• vision care
• dental care
• aids for victims with disabilities
• interpretation services
• crime scene cleanup
• government/medical documents
• funeral expenses

Additional assistance for victims of human trafficking includes:

• storage locker
• tattoo removal
• treatment at a recovery facility

Note: No direct reimbursement to victims for above supports

Financial support also available for:

• victims who sustained serious physical injuries during a crime
• parents of child homicide victims
• spouses of homicide victims

• Provides individualized 24 hour emergency service to victims and survivors of sexual assault and/or domestic violence
• Provides emergency medical assessment and treatment

Provides initial emergency care only with the patient's informed consent, and may include all or part of the following:

• Assessment and treatment of injuries
• Testing/treatment/prevention of sexually transmitted infections (STI), including HIV
• Emergency contraceptives
• Reassurance and emotional support
• Collection of forensic evidence including photographs
• Risk assessment and safety planning
• Referral for medical follow-up
• Referral to appropriate social agencies
• Referral to shelter and or other relevant community resources
• Police involvement, at victims request
• Storage of forensic evidence for up to six months if the patient is uncertain about involving the authorities

Offers assistance for women in crisis, abused women and their children. Provides individual confidential counselling, group sessions, legal advocacy as well as accompaniment to court and legal and Crown appointments, referrals.

Also raises awareness about the issues of abuse and violence against women and children in speaking to service groups, churches, schools, individuals or agencies throughout the District of Parry Sound.

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.

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:

• emergency Shelter for women

Non-Residential Services include:

• 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

Programs and groups include:

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

On-site early intervention and crisis intervention, needs assessment, safety planning, referrals to community services, enhanced support for vulnerable victims, assistance with applications to VQRP+.

Victim Quick Response Program+ (VQRP+) --

• assistance with emergency expenses related to the incident, including home safety, accommodation, meals, transportation, basic necessities, dependent care costs, counselling, traditional Indigenous health services, cellular phones, vision care, dental care, aid for victims with disabilities, interpretation services, crime scene cleanup, government/medical documents and funeral expenses
• additional assistance for victims of human trafficking includes storage locker, tattoo removal, and treatment at a recovery facility
• no direct reimbursement to victims for support listed above
• financial support also available for victims who sustained serious physical injuries during a crime and for parents of child homicide victims and spouses of homicide victims

Family Court Support Worker Program --

• information on the family court process
• assistance in preparing for family court proceedings (documenting history of abuse, accessing Legal Aid)
• referral to specialized services and supports in the community
• safety planning
• court accompaniment to proceedings when appropriate

Provides cage-free long-term pet care primarily for dogs and limited numbers of cats, birds and other small pets by request.

Provides boarding in 100 day increments at a lower rate (sliding scale) for people in crisis including victims of crime, fire, sudden illness, etc.

Shuttle service between Muskoka and Toronto most days of the week available. Shuttle service can be dispatched once pets arrive at a veterinarian clinic anywhere within Ontario. Veterinarian can validate pet health, current vaccinations and provide short term pet care until shuttle arrival.

Provides support to both children and their mothers and offers practical assistance with the following:

• Staying safe
• After-school activities
• Coaching in mothering after abuse
• Coaching in cooperative play and peaceful solutions for home and school

• 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

Offers a variety of support services including:

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