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Call your local shelter if you’re in crisis or to learn more about the services they offer. There are over 600 shelters across Canada that are more than ready to support you or answer any questions you have.

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Shelter Type

Crisis Shelter
Mixed Emergency and Second Stage
Second Stage Units
Safe Home

Pet Program

Onsite
Offsite

Accessibility

Onsite
Offsite

Children’s Programming

Onsite
Offsite

Formal Inclusivity Policies

Gender Identities

Symbol Definitions

Crisis Shelter
Short-term emergency accommodation and services for women and children fleeing violence. Length of stay can be days, weeks, or months, depending on the shelter/transition house.

Second Stage Units
Longer-term accommodation for women and children who may not be fleeing immediate abuse, but still require continued support and safety. Length of stay may be months or years, depending on the shelter.

Mixed Emergency and Second Stage
Short-term emergency stays and longer-term second stage units offered within the same facility.

Safe Home
Private homes in smaller, often rural, communities where there is no transition house program.

Pets Allowed, Onsite
Pets are housed in the shelter itself, either in private rooms, in a designated area, or in an adjacent building.

Pets Allowed, Offsite
The shelter has a partnership with an outside organization that will temporarily house or foster pets while the woman is staying in the shelter/transition house.

Fully Accessible
Every floor and service offered in the shelter is fully wheelchair accessible.

Partly Accessible
A woman with mobility restrictions can stay at the shelter/transition house but may not be able to access the entire building.

Children’s Programming, Onsite
Programming for children such as counselling is available within the shelter, either by shelter staff or by a partner organization.

Children’s Programming, Offsite
Programming for children such as counselling is available offsite through a partnership with an outside organization.

Gender Identities
Board-approved written inclusion policy intended to create a safe, welcoming, and relevant space for shelter/TH residents of diverse sexual orientations and marginalized genders, including nonbinary people, transgender men, and both cisgender and transgender women.