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Women’s Counselling and Support

Individual or group counselling, in addition to supports such as healthcare, violence intervention, addictions assistance, legal advocacy and other services.

In this section:


Aboriginal Health Centre


Centre de santé communautaire
Hamilton Niagara

Compass Community Health


Flamborough Women’s
Resource Centre


Good Shepherd Women’s Services


Hamilton Regional Indian Centre


Hamilton Urban Core Community
Health Centre


Interval House of Hamilton


Native Women’s Centre


Phoenix Place


Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence
Care Centre


The AIDS Network

Women’s Centre of Hamilton

YWCA Hamilton

Aboriginal Health Centre

Population Served:

All Aboriginal people, regardless of status

Services Offered:

  • Culturally appropriate health care programs
  • Choices of traditional healing, western medicine and complementary therapies
  • Health education, school outreach, children’s programs, Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and child nutrition programs
  • Mental health supports; addictions, counselling, and wellness planning
  • Traditional healing; healing journey, grief recovery, attitudinal healing, sweat lodge ceremonies, spiritual warriors roadway, and elder mentorship program

Contact:

Phone: (905) 544-4320
Fax: (905) 544-4247
Address: 678 Main Street East, Hamilton ON
Email: [email protected]
Web: aboriginalhealthcentre.com

Other:

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

Centre de santé communautaire Hamilton Niagara

Population:

Communauté francophone de Hamilton et la région du Niagara

Services:

  • Services de soutien personnalisé et confidentiel qui abordent les problématiques liées à la violence à l’encontre des femmes
  • Services d’aiguillage, de référence et d’accompagnement tels que dans de milieu hospitalier, policier et juridique, assistance pratique, défense des droits et intérêts et assistance pour compléter un rapport anonyme.
  • Programme d’intervention précoce pour les enfants exposés à la violence
  • Programme d’intervention auprès des partenaires violents (PAR) mandaté par la Cour
  • Autres services offerts aux francophones de tout âge:
  • Santé primaire (médecin de famille, infirmières, diététiste, services périnataux, ergothérapeute, soins des pieds, services aux aîné(e)s, etc.)
  • Santé mentale et toxicomanie, programmes et services d’établissement et adaptation, et programmes et services en santé et bien-être

Contact:

Téléphone : (905) 528-0163
Gratuit : 1 (866) 437-7606
Fax : (905) 528-9196
Adresse : 1320 rue Barton est, Hamilton ON, L8H 2W1
Site : http://www.cschn.ca/

Autre:

Emplacement accessible ? Oui
Le service en français ? Oui
Services d’interprétation ? Non

Compass Community Health

Population Served:

Primarily residents of the north end of Hamilton

Services Offered:

  • Primary care: assessment, diagnosis and management by health professionals
  • Health wellness: physiotherapy, chiropody (foot care), nutrition, kinesiology, occupational therapy, asthma therapy, and diabetes education
  • Mental wellness: social work, client advocacy and counselling
  • Feet first – steps for health: free diabetes foot care to seniors or others with limited resources

Contact:

Phone: (905) 523-6611 ext. 2000
Administration fax: (905) 523-5173
Medical fax: (905) 523-8735
Address: 438 Hughson Street North, Hamilton ON
Web: https://compassch.org/

Other:

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

Flamborough Women’s Resource Centre

Population Served:

Women

Services Offered:

  • Individual counselling
  • Legal advocacy
  • Transitional housing support
  • Peer counselling
  • Information and community referrals
  • Employment counselling
  • Teen peer support groups
  • Women’s groups

Contact:

Crisis: (905) 387-8881
Phone: (289) 895-8580
Fax: (289) 895-8525
Address: 17 Main Street South, Waterdown ON
Email: [email protected]

Other:

Accessible location? No
French language services? No

Good Shepherd Women’s Services

Population Served:

Women and their children

Services Offered:

  • Mary’s Place; shelter residence for women
  • Martha House; shelter residence for women and children fleeing abuse
  • Community and counselling services; violence against women, child and youth, migrant women workers project, wellness program, sage family camp.
  • Housing and support services; transitional housing and support program, legal advocate, family court support, second stage services, housing and stage works
  • Medical services; health clinic, comfort foot care, dental hygiene for children

Contact:

Crisis Line: (905) 523-6277
Phone:(905) 523-8766
Fax: (905) 523-0914
Web:www.goodshepherdcentres.ca/womens-services

Other:

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

Hamilton Regional Indian Centre

Population Served:

Urban aboriginal people

Services Offered:

  • Addictions counselling
  • Criminal/family courtwork program
  • Family support; families with children 0-6 years, culturally based activities
  • Healing and wellness program
  • Healthy babies/healthy children program
  • Prenatal/nutrition program
  • Akwe: go program; cultural activities for children 7-12 years old

Contact:

Phone: (905) 548-9593
Fax: (905) 545-4077
Email: [email protected]
Address: 34 Ottawa St N, Hamilton ON
Web:www.hric.ca/index.php

Other:

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

Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre

Population Served:

All residents of Hamilton

Services Offered:

  • Art from the Heart; for those struggling with difficult emotions, are chronically ill, isolated or had traumatic experiences. Uses art as a medium of expression to improve mental health
  • Serenity “N” Motion; self-esteem workshops, relaxation sessions, discussion groups and community services activities

Contact:

Phone: (905) 522-3233
Fax: (905) 522-3433
Address: 71 Rebecca Street, Hamilton, ON
Web:www.hucchc.com/index.html

Other:

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

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

Native Women’s Centre

Population Served:

All women and their children who are experiencing crisis

Services Offered:

  • 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

Phoenix Place

Population Served:

Women and children

Services Offered:

  • Individual and group counselling around breaking the cycle of violence
  • Support and referrals to other community groups
  • Support with respect to education, parenting, employment, housing, income support, health and wellness, legal aid and more
  • Court assistance

Contact:

Phone: (905) 527-2238
Fax: (905) 527-1219
Web: www.phoenixplace.ca/main.html

Other:

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

Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Care Centre

Population Served:

Medical/Forensic Services: anyone who has been recently sexually assaulted; women who have recently experienced intimate partner violence
Counselling Services: adolescents and adults who have experienced sexual assault or intimate partner violence at any point in their lives, support persons can receive counselling services also

Services Offered:

  • Emergency medical care and forensic evidence collection
  • Follow up medical care
  • Counselling services

Contact:

Crisis: present to Hamilton General Hospital Emergency Department
Business: (905) 521-2100 ext. 73557
Fax: (905) 521-5071
Address: 237 Barton Street East, Hamilton ON
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.hamiltonhealthsciences.ca/areas-of-care/emergency-care/sexual-assault-domestic-violence/

Other:

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

The AIDS Network

Population Served:

Women, men, children and families living with and affected by HIV/AIDS

Services Offered:

  • Individualized one on one supports
  • Practical supports for individuals living with HIV; home cooked meals, emergency food bank, vitamin and meal replacement program, food box, transport to medical appointments, support groups, prison outreach support, referrals, complimentary therapies, community garden.
  • Group social support activities

Contact:

Phone: 1 (866) 563-0563
Fax: (905) 528-6311
Address: 140 King Street East, Suite 101, Hamilton ON
Web:www.aidsnetwork.ca/hamilton

Other:

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

Women’s Centre of Hamilton

Population Served:

Women (16+)

Services Offered:

  • Information and referrals
  • Advocacy and support
  • Employment counselling
  • Individual violence against women counselling
  • Women’s groups
  • Jared’s Place – legal advocacy and resource centre
  • Individual peer support
  • Peer support training

Contact:

Crisis:(905) 387-8881
Phone: (905) 522-0127
Address: 100 Main Street East, Suite 205, Hamilton ON
Web: www.intervalhousehamilton.org/our-services

Other:

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

YWCA Hamilton

Violence Against Women and Gender-Based Violence Counselling

Population Served:

Our Violence Against Women and Gender-Based Violence Services are designed to help newcomer, immigrant, and refugee women address their unique needs through community resources and referrals, short-term sessional counselling, and workshops.

Services Offered:

Settling into a new country can be hard and we want to help in any way we can.

  • FREE counselling
  • focus on experiences of violence or abuse, before and after moving to Canada, and how this has impacted the ability to successfully and safely integrate and settle into Canada.
  • Together, we will discuss safety planning for you and your family and discuss the steps to take to ensure your independence.
  • We will also provide you with the information you need to build strong community connections.

Contact:

Phone: (905) 522-9922 ext. 112 
Address: 75 MacNab Street South, Hamilton ON, L8P 3C1
Web:  www.ywcahamilton.org/join/support-for-gender-based-violence-page/

Other:

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

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