ONE ACT of Excellence in Service
By: Merle Fast MSW, RSW Director of Quality Assurance In 2015, the Ministry of Community and Social Services developed Violence Against Women (VAW) Emergency Shelter Standards to all VAW shelters in Ontario. The standards outline the minimum requirements for all...
ONE ACT of Education
By: Jennifer Hutton MSW, RSW Outreach Manager Within our community, there are so many different types of helpers that are completing multiple acts of service day in and day out. We are fortunate to have skilled staff at Women's Crisis Services that complete a lot...
ONE ACT of Collaboration
By: Jennifer Hutton MSW, RSW Outreach Manager Women's Crisis Services have been working closely with the Kitchener Waterloo Humane Society to provide an important service for both our shelter and outreach clients. Research well documents that women stay in abusive...
ONE ACT of Healing
Play therapy encompasses many modalities: art, puppets and role-playing real life safety scenarios, dollhouse or knights & castles, board games to practice social skills and frustration tolerance, and sandtray as a non-verbal, non-directive means to process trauma...
ONE ACT of Partnership
Erin Schreiter MSW, RSW Residential Manager Women's Crisis Services is proud to partner with Family and Children's Services (FCS) of the Waterloo Region, through their Resiliency Project, to deliver Trusting Loving Connections, a research based program developed by...
ONE ACT of Volunteerism
By: Carolyn Albrecht, Senior Director of Operations Our volunteers do not limit themselves to One Act. They provide us with many, many acts of generosity of their time and expertise. Our board members give many hours contributing to the governance of our...
100 Men Who Give a Damn about Violence Against Women
Women's Crisis Services of Waterloo Region is very proud to thank 100 Men Who Give a Damn Waterloo Region for their support of the campaign to rebuild Haven House, the shelter supporting abused women and their children in Cambridge and North Dumfries. 100 Men WGDWR...
We STILL Need your help
It's hard to believe the new Haven House will be opening in 10 weeks! For the past several years, our team has been working relentlessly to secure the $9.4 M for this project. As of today, we still need to raise $2.4 M and so we are turning to you¦..our...
TriCity Roller Derby
