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North York Women's Shelter

Raise money for North York Women's Shelter

Run with Team NYWS and help end Intimate Partner Violence! 

Every night in Toronto 185 women and their 238 children sleep in shelters because it isn’t safe to sleep at home.

Since opening its doors in 1984, North York Women’s Shelter has provided a place of safety and support for women and children impacted by violence. In the 35 years since NYWS’s inception, over 11,000 residents have stayed at the shelter – determined to build lives free of violence and abuse.

Our brand new, secure, fully accessible 24,000 square foot complex, provides a 17-bedroom emergency shelter with an emphasis on therapeutic design, and an unique accessible community collective. With emphasis on therapeutic design and the empowering impact of arts-based programming, we are able to provide critical anti-violence support to women in our community who are experiencing violence. With your support, we hope to continue to grow into our space and develop an innovative survivor focused program to end gender-based violence.


By joining , you will be supporting on new expanded programs at NYWS.

Trauma Mental Health counselling:

Clients work with our team to define the goals and outcomes they would like to achieve through therapy. The program is committed to transparency, accountability and informed consent in all decisions regarding the women and their children.

Expressive Arts Therapy program:

Expressive Arts Therapy uses intermodal, approach to counseling by integrating all the artistic expressions such as music, theater, poetry, dance, writing, drawing or other artistic form that uses the individual’s innate creativity. Art is used as therapeutic tool to help initiate change or self-reflection.

Food Justice & Food Security program:

The FSFJ program’s primary objective is supporting residents towards accessing their right to nutritious, culturally competent foods, resource development and the knowledge transfer and exchange (KTE) that comes with the community development. This is a protective factor for food insecurity for residents when they leave the shelter. FSFJ also creates cultural safety for Indigenous women and women of colour for whom a lack of culturally competent foods is a form of structural violence. 







 

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Recent donors

Recent donors
Date Name Amount
Aug 27 Vivienne Lutwama All the best with this initiative and hope your fundraising goes a long way CA$53.11
Aug 27 KWAME CA$41.43
Aug 26 Lauren Morley CA$106.22
Aug 25 Maggie Zeng Timothy: thank you for doing this important work to support those who suffer from domestic violence! CA$63.73
Aug 25 Anonymous Undisclosed amount
Aug 25 Jeanne Barbadoro CA$100.00
Aug 25 Nardia C CA$26.56
Aug 24 Aleks Karamarkovic CA$53.11
Aug 24 Lyndsay Money CA$26.56
Aug 24 Anonymous CA$60.00