Harmony House Women's Shelter

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Coming Events

4th Annual Charity Golf Tournament, Wednesday, June 4th, 2008!

Welcome to Harmony House Women's Shelter. Please feel free to take a look around and learn about the work we do, the people we help and the community we serve.

DONATION DROP OFF DAY - WEDNESDAY, MAY 28
Somerset West Community Centre, 55 Eccles Street, 9a.m. to noon


Please note that we are no longer able to accept donations of used clothing and linens due to health reasons. Toiletries and food items must be new and unopened.

The following is a list of items that Harmony House needs for its residents. All items should be clean, new or gently used and in good working order.


4th Annual Charity Golf Tournament in Support of Harmony House Women's Shelter - June 4th, 2008


Charity Golf Tournament Poster - PDF format

Golf Tournament Registration Form - PDF format

Corporate Sponsorship Package - PDF format

Highlights from Executive Director Board Report

In March of this year Ottawa area shelters organized a full day workshop on legal advocacy on family, child welfare and immigration law. Local lawyers provided excellent overviews to current legal systems and how best to advocate for abused women within them. Resources advocates can use in working with women navigating various legal systems were distributed. Feedback on the day was very positive.

Area shelters are also participating in the Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses’ (OAITH’s) Survivors Voices project which is aimed at increasing abused women’s opportunities for involvement in work to address and end violence against women. Meetings will be held in eastern Ontario starting April 30th. If you or someone you know is interested in attending please contact Harmony House for more information.

For the past two years area services to survivors of violence and the Children’s Aid Society have been working on the Children’s Aid Society /Violence Against Women Integrated Services project. The aim is to ensure the best possible interventions to women and children who are coping with violence in order to maximize safety while supporting their strengths. After extensive planning the project is underway and by all accounts is resulting in positive relationships between our two sectors and interventions that respond creatively to the real needs of women and children coping with male violence. The project will be assembling a community reference group at some point in the future. If you are interested in this project, particularly if you have had dealings with child welfare as an abused woman or as a member of a community that has traditionally not felt their needs were adequately understood by child welfare, perhaps due to culture, ethnicity, race, disability, sexuality, language or economic hardship, please get in touch with Harmony House and we will try to connect you to this project.

Harmony House’s Social Action Committee is looking for a few good men. This fall we would like to hold a focus group with respected men in our community to see what messages about positive relationships with women and non-violence in intimate relationships they think would be most effective in reaching other men in our community. Based on their thoughts we hope to develop a public service announcement campaign with messages about ending violence against women.

Harmony House is teeming with ‘little gaffers’ these days. With the sunshine we have been getting out the wading pools much to everyone’s delight and entertainment. We are looking forward to another successful summer recreation program for the children of Harmony House along with the continuation of our various programs assisting women to regain their freedom from violence.

2007 Newsletter is now here!

Click here to read our newsletter for 2007 in pdf format.

Annual AGM 2007

Harmony House held its annual general meeting on Thursday, June 21, 2007, at 6p.m. at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, 217 First Avenue. All were welcome to attend.

St. Matthew's Harmony House, Ottawa By-law No. 1

Click here to read the by-law as adopted June 16, 2005 (as amended, June 22, 2006) in pdf format.

 

 

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