​Our Services

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Grace Smith House accepts requests for help regardless of a person's ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation.

​Crisis Intervention & High Risk Danger Assessment 

• 24-hour crisis hotlines to help victims assess their individual situation, assist in creating a safety plan for themselves and their children, and understand options available to them.
• Risk Assessments to help evaluate and understand the level of risk for a victim. Risk assessments can result in a referral to a team of professionals who can implement a cross-system approach to enhance victim safety and offender accountability depending on an individual's particular situation.

 
Counselling & Support Groups

• Highly specialized individual and group counselling for victims of domestic violence.
• Trained counsellors facilitate groups for women and children to help acknowledge their experiences of violence and learn non-violent methods of problem solving and communication.

 
Shelter & Transitional Housing

• A family-style secure shelter offering space for women and children up to the age of 18 (boys and girls). Assistance with meals, transportation, employment, housing, and counselling services is provided.
• An apartment program housing approximately 15 women and 25 children who are transitioning from a short-term shelter stay and into an independent living environment. Intensive emotional support and advocacy is provided on site.

Advocacy & Legal Services

• Accompaniment and guidance with police, courts, social services, employment, housing and other resources
• Assistance in obtaining free legal representation in court for child custody matters, orders of protection and in divorce proceedings
• Family Court Liaisons: Two trained liaisons (one Spanish-speaking) to assist with completing petitions and understanding the Family Court process.
• Legislative Advocacy: We work closely with state legislators to create and support laws that protect victims and increase safety.

 
Latina Outreach

• Spanish-speaking advocacy and counselling.
• Assistance with the unique issues facing the Latina community.

 
Children & Youth

• Children’s Programs: A trauma-informed approach to serving children who have been exposed to family violence. Programs take place in our shelter and in our community programs.  
• Child Protective Services Liaisons: Two skilled liaisons located at Child Protective Services offering support to victims of domestic violence who are engaged with CPS and who also provide training and support to CPS workers so that they understand the role and features of family violence.
• Youth Education and Prevention Programs: School-based programs focusing on bullying and relationship violence prevention and intervention. We also provide crisis response to schools when a family violence incident has occurred.