14,000 women use shelters every year.
Women stay in shelters an average of 21 days.
Watch an interview with Minister of Community and Social Services Madeleine Meilleur, Minister Responsible for Women's Issues Deb Matthews and the Executive Director of Women's Community House, Kate Wiggins.
The ministry funds many programs and services to help women and their children live free of domestic violence.
These programs and services:
- are delivered through more than 100 community social services organizations across Ontario, and
- include:
- emergency shelters
- crisis and support services
- counselling services
- housing support services
- transitional support services, and
- a province wide crisis help line (the Assaulted Women's Helpline).
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