A few words about
What We Do
Services/PROGRAMS To The Community
All the services are provided both in person and virtually.
The Center is open Monday to Friday and closed all statutory holidays
We understand we all come from a diverse culture, our aim is to understand your cultural needs and connect you to the right services including accessing Cultural Elders/Mentors.
System Navigation & Resource Referrals.
Helping women understand and access available supports
What we provide:
• Guidance navigating healthcare, housing, education, and social services
• Information on community resources and available programs
• Assistance completing applications and understanding processes
• Referrals to legal, employment, financial, and settlement services
• Support accessing culturally appropriate and language-specific resources
• Advocacy to address barriers and improve access to services
Gender-Based Violence (GBV) Advocacy & Survivor Support
Walking alongside survivors on their journey to safety and healing
What we provide:
• Confidential emotional support and compassionate listening
• Information about gender-based violence and its impacts
• Personalized safety planning and risk assessment support
• Support understanding options and making informed decisions
• Referrals to shelters, counseling, healthcare, and specialized services
• Assistance navigating legal, social, and community systems
• Advocacy to ensure survivors’ voices and needs are respected
• Ongoing support throughout the healing journey
Girls Leadership / Mentorship Training Program
Program Date:
**UPCOMING**
Purpose of Program
- Supporting girls’ leadership giving them a voice and showing them that their opinion matters.
- Early access to mentors can provide just the antidote that girls need to create a strong foundation in the patriarchal world.
- The transition for a girl from the age of 12 to 15 is a pivotal moment in their life in order to face the pressures in their lives and have an outsized impact on their identity and how they describe themselves. This affects their choice of careers and livelihood.
- Having a mentor is a great way for girls to build their professional network and develop the skills needed to effectively make connections in the future.
- This creates the opportunity to connect with other professionals to whom they may not have had access previously.
- This program provides leadership training to Youth from 12 to 18 years of age. When girl’s confidence levels are high, they will see themselves as future leaders.
Program Outline
- The session is finished by explaining the importance of thinking about their leadership within the bigger context of institutions and systems.
- This is done because women’s lives are shaped by forces that are often far beyond their immediate control.
- This helps the participants to experience and understand how to embrace the challenges ahead of them as women of tomorrow.
Our services are guided by principles of:
- Physical Wellbeing
- Emotional Wellbeing
- Spiritual Wellbeing
- Mental Wellbeing
- Culturally Sensitive Referrals to Services
- Honoring Culture and Diversity
- Promoting healthy networks and social wellness
Services offered and are not limited to:
- Emotional Support honoring culture and diversity
- Advocacy for Victims of the silent epidemic of Racism/Discrimination
- Mental Health Supports
- Creating awareness of Domestic and Gender Violence
- Grief and Loss Supports/referrals
- Legal Service/Advice Clinics and Court Accompaniment as needed
- Referrals to community supports
- Assessments and referrals for more supports
Emotional Supports
We envision offering culturally-responsive services for Women, the Girlchild, and their families that are grounded in or informed by the various cultures of families in need of assistance in alignment with the Trauma Informed Care Principles.
We will report and act on any disclosures of suicidal intentions or self-harm and harm to others.
Advocacy for Victims of the Silent Epidemic to Racism/Discrimination
We will empower women to find their voices by providing with them supports such as:
- Create awareness of the victims’ rights.
- Provide them with steps to navigate the systems in a productive and effective manner.
- Create a safe space for the women to be able to share their experiences.
- Support women in enrolling in the Course/Program that further enhances their skills.
Mental Health Supports
Our clinical counseling services help address the following areas:
- Strategies to promote wholeness
- Stress-related issues
- Self-regulation
- Compassion Fatigue/Caregiver Burnout
- Coping Strategies
- Self-Care Strategies
- Practicing mindfulness
- General well-being check on diet and exercises
- Debriefing
Grief and Loss
These services include:
- Emotional support.
- Determine the type of grief the client is struggling with and the program the client(s) qualify for.
- Community referrals
Legal Service/Advice Clinics and Court Accompaniment as needed
It becomes even more daunting if one has trauma experiences. Our Center provides different activities and/or services that help women navigate the system. Such services include clinics that are offered regularly.
The Center will provide information, referrals, and emotional and court support to the client and their family.
Our Legal-aid Lawyers do not provide legal representation in criminal law.
Our Clinics Address and Provide Advice For issues like:
- Family Issues, Civil Cases, Immigration and Domestic Violence
- other types of law
Services are Free:
- Half-Hour Advice Sessions
- Provided by volunteer lawyers, on one-to-one basis
- Court Accompaniment as needed
These sessions aim to provide a starting point when accessing the legal system.
All women are welcome; appointments are required
To make an appointment, please call the Women’s Centre or email us at: inforlwomencenter@gmail.com
Our team will be with you every step of the way.
Domestic Abuse and Gender-based Violence services
The Support Workers believe in a collective responsibility and work in collaboration with other community agencies to provide wrap-around support services for clients working with multiple agencies.
Our qualified Support Workers provide the following:
- Creating an awareness of domestic violence…..
- Robust intake process
- Emotional support
- Accompaniment to safety and any court proceedings as needed.
- Referral services, safety planning and assessment
- Advocacy for community services and integration into the community after leaving the shelter or after serving their time.
- Access clinical supports
- Help clients to navigate the legal and social services systems
- Provide clients with information about protection orders
- Educate clients on public legal information related to Gender Based and Family Violence
- Provide Court orientation and Court accompaniment as needed
- Risk assessments and safety planning
- Emotional and supportive counselling is offered
- Process referrals for community resources and supports
- Assists the women to complete applications for restitution and the Victims of Crime Financial Benefit Fund
- Educate Women on the long-term effects of abuse on children and the whole family
- Provide Mental Health awareness and resources
- Outreach supports to support the transitioning into community after leaving the shelter or after having encounters with the Justice System.