Search Organizations (English): Intimate partner violence
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- Dr. Margaret Savage Crisis Centre
Operates a shelter for women, with or without children, who are victims of family violence or confronted with any crisis. Offers weekly support groups for women, training and information regarding self-esteem, life skills, empowerment, custody, legal issues and family violence.
- Futures without Violence
- http://www.futureswithoutviolence.org/
Works to prevent violence within the home, and in the community, to help those whose lives are devastated by violence because everyone has the right to live free of violence.
(See Details)- Grande Prairie Women's Residence Association for Abused Women and Children (Odyssey House)
Provides safe, short-term and supportive accommodation for abused women and their children. Provides information groups for women on family violence, self-esteem and parenting. Offers one-on-one crisis intervention and a 24 hour crisis line. Provides a follow-up program for women and children setting up on their own.
- Awo-Taan Healing Lodge (formerly Awo-Taan Calgary Native Women's Shelter)
- http://www.awotaan.org
- Provides an immediate response to domestic violence for women and children through a 24-hour crisis line. Offers a secured facility, individual counselling, group healing circles, community referrals, child support, advocacy, information and education regarding domestic violence, access to relevant resources, and support in basic needs such as transportation, donated clothing and meals. (See Details)
- Battered Women's Support Services
- http://www.bwss.org/
Provides education, advocacy, and support services to assist battered women in British Columbia. Also offers feminist-oriented training to support group facilitators and peer counselors for women’s groups.
(See Details)- Peel Committee Against Woman Abuse
- http://www.pcawa.org/
Represents social service, legal, educational, medical, and ethno-specific sectors working to develop a comprehensive and effective community response to woman abuse in the Region of Peel.
(See Details)- National Association of Women and the Law
- http://www.nawl.ca/
- (See Details)
The National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) is an incorporated not-for-profit feminist organization that promotes the equality rights of Canadian women through legal education, research, and law reform advocacy.
Created at a conference held at the University of Windsor law school in 1974. Since then NAWL has used its unique research and educational strategies to raise public awareness about legal issues affecting women.
Has played a major role in the following milestones towards Canadian women's equality:
- inclusion of Sections 15 and 28 in the Charter of Rights & Freedoms,
- amendments to sexual assault laws,
- positive changes to family law and to the Divorce Act,
- rape shield legislation, and
- criminal harassment legislation.
- Revelstoke Women's Shelter Society
- Nova House
SHELTER FOR WOMEN AND
CHILDREN IN CRISIS
SERVING THE INTERLAKE AND NORTH EASTMAN REGIONS OF MANITOBA.
24/7 NO CHARGE PROVINCE WIDE CRISIS LINE
LOCAL CRISIS LINE (these numbers will not show up on your call display or phone bill)
You are not alone.
MEMBER OF THE MANITOBA ASSOCIATION OF WOMEN'S SHELTERS
- Sucker Creek Women's Emergency Shelter
Mandate: To provide shelter for women in crisis as well as abused women and children.
