Services Available On-Site

• Medical attention for your injuries


• Pictures of your injuries to keep as a record of your abuse


• A "Danger Assessment / Safety Plan" to help you understand how to keep yourself & your children as safe as possible


• Help developing a plan to safely leave your abuser


• Help identifying your options to deal with financial difficulties resulting from your situation, and help connecting with those services


• Help finding a place to live or completing subsidized housing paperwork


• Legal consultation (access to Legal Aid certificates or to a lawyer who will accept your Legal Aid certificate)


• Admission to a shelter


• Counselling for yourself


• Counselling for your children


• Advice and support from the Durham Children’s Aid Society


• Police consultation or involvement


• Other help not listed here