Counselling & Community Services
Crisis counselling, advocacy and referrals for women affected by abuse including individual counselling, support groups and community resources for housing, employment, parenting and wellness.
To learn more about programming and services available, please call
705-878-4285.
Outreach Counselling
Women’s Resources offers supportive counselling to women who have been abused or are currently in an abusive relationship. Counselling sessions focus on how their experiences of abuse or domestic violence affect their daily life.
All services provided by Women’s Resources are women positive, women centred, free and confidential. Counsellors are sensitive towards cultural and sexual diversity.
According to these principles, outreach counsellors provide information, resources and referrals for housing, legal, financial, parenting, and employment matters.
This is not a crisis service.
Once you have called to make an appointment, an outreach counsellor will call you back to set a one-to-one appointment. If you are unable to travel to Lindsay, the outreach counsellor will explore other service options with you.
In the outreach counselling meetings, women talk about many different things including:
- Abuse and trauma; symptoms and impact
- Healthy relationships
- Keeping safe
- Understanding emotions and learning how to manage them
- Reducing mental confusion and stress
- Developing self-awareness and increasing self-esteem
- Sexuality and gender issues
- Making decisions and setting goals
To make an appointment or for more information call Women’s Resources at: 705-878-4285
Community Support Program
The Community Support Program is a service for women who have experienced domestic violence and are trying to rebuild their lives. This is a short-term, goal-oriented program for women who are ready to develop and follow a specific action plan leading them towards a violence-free, independent life.
Through one-to-one support, a Community Support counsellor will assist women to develop individual “transition” plans. A transition plan will identify the short-term goals that the woman has for herself and the concrete steps she needs to take to be successful in achieving these goals.
The Community Support Worker helps women find resources in the community that will help them build lives free from abuse or domestic violence.
These resources may include:
- Housing
- Financial assistance
- Legal aid
- Education
- Job training
- Immigration services
- Parenting support
- Court
- Counselling
- Health and wellness
Safety planning is an important component of this program. For more information about this service, please contact the community support worker at: 705-878-4285
Family Court Support
The Family Court Support program offers legal support, information and the ability to connect women in our supports with lawyers who can offer a legal consult at no cost to themselves. With Family Court Support, assistance can be provided to fill out court documents, attend lawyer appointments with women, attend court with women and help with applying for and navigating Legal Aid Ontario.
