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Emergency Shelters

Places for individuals in need to live temporarily when they cannot return home, typically people fleeing a type of situation where their safety and/or well-being might be in question!

Good Shepherd Martha House

Population

Women and their children

Services:

  • Short-term accommodation, 15 units totaling 40 beds
  • 24 hour crisis line
  • Emergency transportation to shelter if needed
  • Referrals and advocacy for legal, medical, financial, employment, housing and other community services
  • Assistance for women and children seeking to re-establish in the community

Contact:


Other:

Accessible location? Yes
French language services? Yes
Interpretation services? Off-site interpretation services available

Good Shepherd Mary's Place

Population Served:

Women

Services Offered:

  • Short term accommodation
  • 20 bed shelter
  • Support for diverse issues such as homelessness, poverty, mental illness and violence
  • Referrals and advocacy for legal, medical, financial, employment, housing and other community services
  • Drop-in educational and recreational activities for women in the community

Contact:

Other:

Accessible location? Yes
French language services? Yes
Interpretation services? Off-site interpretation services available

Interval House of Hamilton

Population Served:

Women (16+) who are experiencing violence/abuse and
their children

Services Offered:

  • 24 Hour/7 Day a Week Crisis Phone
  • Emergency shelter providing meals, emergency clothing and personal needs at no cost to client
  • Emergency transportation to shelter
  • Counselling supports for women in house and in the community
  • Child and youth support services
  • Community Transitional Housing Support Program
  • Support around access to legal systems (family, criminal, immigration, child welfare etc)
  • Safety planning

Contact:

Crisis: (905) 387-8881
Business Line: (905) 387-9959
Business Fax: (905) 387-0019
Program Fax: (905) 387-0563
E-mail: [email protected]

Other:

Accessible location? Yes
French language services? Yes
Interpretation services? Yes

Mission Services - Inasmuch House

Population Served:

Women, youth and children

Services Offered:

  • Accommodation for 37 residents
  • 24 hour confidential support on the crisis line
  • Safety planning and risk assessment
  • Individual and group support for women and children
  • Information and referral for services in the community, including legal supports
  • Emergency transportation to shelter
  • Transition and housing support
  • Legal Advocate

Contact:

Other:

Accessible location? Yes
French language services? Yes
Interpretation services? Yes – upon request

Native Women's Centre

Population Served:

All women and their children who are experiencing crisis

Services Offered:

  • Emergency shelter, short term stay, 8 rooms totalling 15 beds
  • Safety planning
  • 24 hour crisis line
  • Counselling for residents, non-residents and past residents
  • Emergency transportation to Shelter
  • Information and referrals to other community resources
  • Woman Abuse Education Program
  • Access to Traditional Native methods of healing, but remains sensitive to other cultures
  • Referral to transitional housing; Honouring the Circle
  • Transitional Housing Support worker on site

Contact:

Toll free/Crisis: 1 (888) 308-6559
Telephone/Crisis: (905) 664-1114
Fax: (905) 664-1101
Web: www.nativewomenscentre.com

Other:

Accessible location? Yes
French language services? No
Interpretation services? No

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