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Shelter Type
Emergency VAW Shelter
Mixed Emergency and Second Stage
Second Stage Units
Safe Home
Pet Program
Onsite
Offsite
Accessibility
Fully accessible
Partly accessible
Children’s Programming
Onsite
Offsite
Formal Inclusivity Policies
Sexual Orientations
Sexual Orientations and Gender Identities
Symbol Definitions
Emergency VAW 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.
Sexual orientations Board-approved written inclusion policy intended to create a safe, welcoming, and relevant space for shelter/TH residents of diverse sexual orientations such as lesbian, bisexual, pansexual and heterosexual.
Gender identities and 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.