A free and confidential counselling, advocacy and support service for women experiencing intimate partner violence. Your confidentiality is assured!
The STV Counselling Program provides free individual and group counselling to women experiencing emotional, physical, sexual, psychological, social and/or economic abuse. The STV program is for women enduring physical and/or sexual violence; women subjected to years of verbal, emotional, psychological and physical abuse; and women dealing with the long term effects of childhood trauma, including childhood abuses.
STV counsellors have the knowledge and skills to provide aid and support to women who have endured traumatic violence and abuse. They are also specially trained to work within multicultural communities, with women from different language and cultural backgrounds.
What does the program include?
One on one counselling and emotional support
Group support
Advocacy and information on your legal rights and how the court system works
Crisis intervention
Assistance in developing a safety plan
Information and referrals to other community resources
Information about custody, access and guardianship
Information on the impact of violence on the family
Help in dealing with your relationship
Referral to a specific service
Are you in a healthy relationship? A good relationship is based on care, trust and tolerance:
Care for one another
Respect and trust in each other
Allow space for different opinions, tastes and ideas
A healthy relationship is not based on jealousy, control and unreasonable demands. If someone uses jealousy or anger to make you do things their way, then this is controlling behavior and not a healthy relationship.You have the right to:
Live your life without violence
Be safe in your home
Talk to people about your situation
Keep your children safe from harm
Leave your home and go to a safe place
Unconditional support
If you are...
Experiencing violence in your relationship
Being hurt by one or more of your family members
Lonely and isolated
Denied access to money
Forced to stay with the person who hurts you
Feeling angry, sad and/or tired
Afraid of being hurt
Worried your children are being exposed to violence
Concerned about your sponsorship
…you need help!
If you are hurt, call the POLICE by dialing 911. It’s your life; you have the power to CHANGE it!
Women experiencing any form of violence and abuse is a CRIME. You have the right to report abuse to the police and ask for their protection. Your children have a right to live in a happy and safe household.
STV Counsellors and Multicultural Outreach Support Services provide free and confidential services, including:
One on one counselling and emotional support
Group support
Advocacy and information on your legal rights and how the court system works
Crisis intervention
Assistance in developing a safety plan
Information and referrals to other community resources
The services are culturally appropriate to raise awareness of the effects of violence against women, violence prevention and services available.
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