Community Partners

AWHL would like to thank the following groups, who consulted with us and gave us important feedback during the province-wide implementation process:

Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes

Alliance of Canadian Second Stage Housing Programs (Ontario Caucus)

Mission Statement: To provide an information network specific to Second Stage Housing Programs and a forum for social and political action.

The Alliance will:

• work for change that will enhance the lives of women and children escaping abuse;
• lobby all levels of government for the support of Second Stage Housing Programs;
• provide public education opportunities that contribute to social change.

The Membership Shares a Belief that the safety of women and their children who have experienced abuse is the fundamental priority.

Canadian Women’s Foundation
http://www.cdnwomen.org

Canadian Women's Foundation is Canada's only national public foundation dedicated to improving the lives of women and girls through economic and social change. CWF raises money and makes grants to projects that help women and girls in Canada to achieve greater self-reliance and economic independence. For more information, visit www.cdnwomen.org.

DAWN Ontario (DisAbled Women’s Network Ontario)
http://dawn.thot.net

DAWN Ontario: DisAbled Women's Network Ontario is a provincial, cross-disability, feminist voluntary organization working towards access, equity, and full participation of Women with disAbilities through public education, coalition-building, self-advocacy, resource development, and information & communication technology. (DAWN Ontario has been operating without funding or staff since December 1998).

Le Réseau des femmes handicapées de l'Ontario, un organisme regroupant des femmes vivant avec différents handicaps, veut favoriser l'accès, l'équité et l'entière participation des femmes handicapées en sensibilisant le grand public, en créant des réseaux, en développant des ressources et en favorisant l'autonomie sociale.

Contact :  Email :

Barbara Anello (Acting Chair) dawnontario@sympatico.ca

D.W.A.V.E. (Deaf Women Against Violence Everywhere)

Education Wife Assault
http://www.womanabuseprevention.com

Education Wife Assault's mission is to inform and educate the community about the issue of wife assault/woman abuse in order to decrease the incidence of physical, psychological, emotional and sexual violence against women and the effect that woman abuse has on children.

OAITH (Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses)
http://www.oaith.ca

"OAITH is a province-wide association primarily of women's first stage emergency shelters and other services working to end violence against women. OAITH works on issues of public advocacy that affect women experiencing violence and children exposed to violence against their mothers."

OCRCC (Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres)
http://www.ocrcc.ca

The Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centre (OCRCC) was formed in 1977 and incorporated in 1980 in order to achieve the following goals:

• to work for the prevention and eradication of all forms of sexual assault including rape, sexual harassment, childhood sexual abuse, incest and other forms of sexual violence;
• to promote legal, social and attitudinal changes regarding sexual assault;
• to organize the collective strengths of Ontario-based sexual assault/rape crisis centres in the anti-sexual assault movement;
• to provide a mechanism for communication, education and mobilization to alleviate the political and geographical isolation of rape crisis/sexual assault centres in Ontario;
• to encourage, direct and generate research into sexual violence.

Members of the OCRCC are committed to addressing and eliminating individual, organizational and societal racism and oppression and working to develop an integrated, anti-racist/anti-oppression, feminist service delivery system for survivors of sexual assault.

Women Abuse Council of Toronto
http://www.womanabuse.ca

Kenora Sexual Assault Centre

The Kenora Sexual Assault Centre is a women-centred service, inclusive of all women and working collectively, from a feminist analysis of violence against women, to effect personal and political change in the lives of women.

Our work includes support, counselling and advocacy, to facilitate the empowerment and healing of those affected by sexual violence.

The Kenora Sexual Assault Centre works to eradicate the social conditions which contribute to violence against women and children, through public education, lobbying and political action.

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