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New Life Girls' Home offers a residential Christian program for older teens and young women aged 18-30 years old, who have life controlling problems such as drug /alcohol addiction, sexual, mental and physical abuse, eating disorders, self-abuse including cutting, and other compulsive behaviours.
Welcome to Women's Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre of Durham!We are Registered Charitable Organization dedicated mainly to the eradication of violenceagainst women, children and youth.The organization was founded in 1993 to provide services and increase public awareness of the risingincidence of woman assault in our community.The organization works from integrated feminist, anti-racist and anti-oppressive perspectives.
Nourish Peterborough is a documentary film that follows ten unique community groups from Peterborough, Ontario who are advocating for food security and sovereignty. These are programs that have a substantial influence on many people's lives, though many of them go overlooked and/or underfunded. The film provides a platform for these organizations, giving members, participants, volunteers and staff, a louder voice in the community.
Our Vision: to see all women and children thriving. Our Mission: to support the right of all women and their families to live free from violence, poverty and oppression as they build their desired futures. YWCA Peterborough Haliburton offers services to support women escaping violence and help them take steps to rebuild their lives. Women can access emergency shelter services through YWCA Crossroads Shelter (Peterborough) and Haliburton Emergency Rural SafeSpace (Haliburton County), onsite and telephone counselling (24 Hour Crisis Line: 1-800-461-7656), Family Court support, nutritious affordable food available through YWCA JustFood, and much more. Support Team for Abuse Response Today (START) offers a broad range of onsite services every Monday (excluding statutory holidays) for women seeking medical information and assessment, counselling, court information and beyond. Services are free of charge.
In our capacity as a provincial resource, PCSS provides sign language based environments and a community which facilitates the development of life and communication skills in order to promote the social inclusion of non-verbal adults who have intellectual disabilities into mainstream society.