Domestic Violence Resources

Immediate Services

911 Emergency Services
If experiencing an emergency call: 911
911 is a service number you can call when dealing with an immediate emergency. This can include serious suicidal ideation, attempted suicide, serious harm to yourself or others, or the threat of being harmed. A 911 responder will send police or other emergency services as needed. This service provides 24 hours support, 7 days a week and is free to use.

Assaulted Women’s Helpline
To contact call: (416) 863-0511
24/7 support.
Offers support to women via telephone, who have been abused. Offers crisis counselling, information, and referrals for these women.

Abuse hurts - Newmarket
Crisis Line: 1-833-456-4566
To contact call: (905) 727-4357
Location: 120 Harry Walker Pkwy N, Newmarket, ON L3Y 7B2
Provides support, resources and referrals to individuals who have been abused. For this organization, abuse is defined as an action that causes pain or harm to the psychological, physical, or social well-being of a person.

Durham Rape Crisis Centre
To contact call: (905) 668-9200
24/7 Support.
Support to women who have recent or historical experience with sexual assault, sexual harassment, and childhood sexual abuse. Provides educational information on how to keep oneself safe during abuse, and steps toward leaving the abuse.

MS Society Canada: Victim Support Line
To contact call: 1‑888‑579‑2888
Location: 18 King Street East, 7th Floor, Toronto, Ontario, M5C1C4
Can provide services to victims of domestic violence. Provides referrals to community supports to people who are victims of crime, such as domestic violence.

Victim Services Toronto
To contact call: (416) 808-7066
40 College St, Toronto, ON M5G 2J3
Provides support for individuals and their families who have dealt with crime. This support can be used for individuals who have experienced domestic violence.

Support and Shelters

Bethesda House
To contact call: (905) 623-6050
25 King St W, Bowmanville, ON L1C 1R2
Provides support to women, youth and children experiencing domestic violence. Supports include individual as well as group counselling, planning for safety with women and their children, helping mothers parent their children who have experienced abuse, and ongoing support after women have left the shelter. The shelter offers a place to stay for women after they have left an abusive relationship.
Women can refer themselves

Denise House
To contact call: (905) 728-7311
455 Bond St E, Oshawa, ON L1G 1B9
24/7 Support, Provides counselling, support, and a temporary place to stay for women and their children fleeing violence. Supports include creating a safety plan for a woman and her children, referrals to other community services, crisis and assistance through telephone or in-person at the shelter, and emergency shelter.

Women’s Habitat
To contact call: (416) 252-7949
140 Islington Ave, Etobicoke, ON M8V 3B6
Offers support to women and children. Provides counselling, resources, and shelter to women and children that were involved with abuse.

Family Services Durham
To contact call: (905) 666-6240
605 Rossland Road East, Whitby, Ontario L1N 6A3
This resource offers shelter, counselling, and education for those who have been abused.

The Redwood
To contact call: (416) 533-8530 | Text: (647) 370-8300
24/7 support.
Provides support to women and children living with abuse. Offers a place to stay, counselling, and legal support.

Women’s Multicultural Resource and Counselling Centre
To contact call: (905) 427-7849
1355 Kingston Rd, Pickering, ON L1V 1B8
Offers support to women who are a victim of abuse through counselling and resource information. Offers support to youth, adults, and seniors

Canadian Centre for Men and Families
To contact call: (647) 479-9611
26 Mansur Terrace, North York, ON M3J 3R1
Provides therapy, counselling, peer support, legal help, programs regarding fathering, and mentorship to male victims of trauma and violence.

YWCA
To contact call: 1-877-718-1868
This resource offers housing, support services, and community education and training. The YWCA offers help to women who are survivors of domestic violence, get the help that they deserve. The YWCA also supports the children of the women that have been abused. Check the website to find a YWCA near you.

Rexdale Women’s Centre
To contact call 416-745-0062
Provides one-on-one support to women experiencing domestic violence. There is a focus on immigrant and refugee women, who are more vulnerable to domestic violence, and this service provides to them the help they need to move forward.

Health and Wellness Centre University of Toronto
To contact call: (416) 978-8030
214 College Street, 2nd floor Suite #232, Toronto, ON M5T 2Z9
Provides support in the form of counselling as well as referrals for students of the University of Toronto that have been involved in domestic violence.

Domestic Violence Resources (Stacy)