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Located near North Bay
Distance: 200km
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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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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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- 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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- 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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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 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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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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- 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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- 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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One of two shelters in Muskoka for abused women (with or without children). Chrysalis in Huntsville, 1-866-789-8488 or 705-789-8488 is the second location. 10 transitional apartments for women and their children in Huntsville.
Provides:
Provides:
- Safe, short-term shelter
- 24 hour phone support/ 24 hour staffing
- Child and youth programming
- Outreach support
- Educational support groups for women
- Assistance with navigating the legal system
- Accompaniment and advocacy
- Safety planning
- Risk assessment
- Practical needs assistance
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Haliburton Emergency Rural SafeSpace
Office: 705-286-1942Crisis: 705-286-6442 ; 1-800-461-7656
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Provides accessible temporary accommodations for women (and their children) who are fleeing abuse
- private, safe and comfortable place designed for independent living with access to support staff
- length of stay is limited
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La Maison Rosewood Shelter
Office: 705-526-3221Crisis: 705-526-4211
Crisis: 1-800-461-1750
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An emergency shelter providing residential and non-residential supports to women and their children fleeing violence and/or experiencing homelessness.
The shelter provides services en francais to women whose first or preferred language is French.
Counselors provide crisis counselling both in person and via the telephone for women who have experienced intimate partner violence or sexual abuse 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Child residents receive counselling and support as well as age-appropriate activities through our Child Support Program.
Counselling, legal advocacy and accompaniment, assistance with finding and maintaining housing, assistance with subsidized housing and income support programs such as Ontario Works are available to shelter residents and on an outreach basis to women living in the community.
All services maintain confidentiality of client information.
Support is available for alternate care for pets and can be accessed through shelter staff.
The shelter provides services en francais to women whose first or preferred language is French.
Counselors provide crisis counselling both in person and via the telephone for women who have experienced intimate partner violence or sexual abuse 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Child residents receive counselling and support as well as age-appropriate activities through our Child Support Program.
Counselling, legal advocacy and accompaniment, assistance with finding and maintaining housing, assistance with subsidized housing and income support programs such as Ontario Works are available to shelter residents and on an outreach basis to women living in the community.
All services maintain confidentiality of client information.
Support is available for alternate care for pets and can be accessed through shelter staff.
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15 bed emergency shelter that provides support to abused and homeless women across Simcoe County and their children.
Services include:
Services include:
- a residential program
- confidential counselling services
- legal advocacy and information
- support groups for women and children
- 24 hour telephone crisis line
- community referrals
- 5 bed emergency shelter for homeless women and their children
- 5 designated beds for women who have been trafficked
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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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24 Hour Crisis/Support Line and Emergency Residential Services
1-800-267-4930 Office: 613-732-7776
Crisis: 613-732-3131
Texting Support Line: 613-639-1233
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Offers a short term emergency 16 bed shelter for women and children leaving an abusive relationship.
- short term free emergency accommodations
- groups and one-to-one support
- safety planning
- education on abuse
- referrals, resources and guidance making informed choices
- emotional and educational support for parents and their children residing in the shelter
- trained caseworkers listen, offer support, safety plan and refer to other services
- provide information and education
- all calls are confidential service does not subscribe to call display
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Green Haven Shelter is a safe alternative to an abusive home.
Trained staff are available 24/7. Safety and confidentiality are key priorities. Information on options, rights, resources, and referrals to services that best meet clients needs will be provided. These could include legal, financial, housing and employment issues. Concerns about the impact of exposure to violence and the effect of trauma on both children and women can be explored.
Programs available include:
24 Hour Crisis Line
Trained staff are available 24/7. Safety and confidentiality are key priorities. Information on options, rights, resources, and referrals to services that best meet clients needs will be provided. These could include legal, financial, housing and employment issues. Concerns about the impact of exposure to violence and the effect of trauma on both children and women can be explored.
Programs available include:
24 Hour Crisis Line
- Immediate telephone support
- Crisis intervention
- Toll-Free: 1-888-285-6958
- Local: 705-327-7319
- Text: 705-345-1302
- Email: crisis@ghws.ca
- Safe, secure refuge 24 hour / 7 days a week
- Informal, confidential support and crisis counselling
- Financial, legal and housing information and referrals
- Information on community resources and referrals
- Emergency transportation
- Safety planning
- Housing alternatives for women in residence or from the community
- Employment and education opportunities
- Applications to subsidized housing programs
- Income support and budgeting, financial resources and options
- Information and support regarding legal aid
- Parenting support resources
- Local: 705-327-7383 ext 222
- Email: transition@ghws.ca
- An alternative to the Residential Shelter Program
- Court/legal support
- Confidential individual and/or group counselling by appointment
- Local: 705-329-2806
- Email: outreach@ghws.ca
- Individual and group counselling
- Recreational and play activities, including arts and crafts
- School support while residing at the shelter
- Parenting support for mothers
- Local: 705-327-7383 ext 225
- Email: youth@ghws.ca
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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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