Our Story

2022

Covid-19 mandates and restrictions are lifted in March 2022.

2022
  • HH celebrates 35 years in operation
  • HH resumes all in-person programming and renovates the entire shelter (funded through our Giving Tuesday campaign with Royal LePage Realty)
2021
  • HH has full staff with 8 Full-Time employees, 2 Part-Time and a consultant.
  • HH hires 1st Full-Time Fundraiser
2020
  • Global Pandemic hits – Coronavirus (Covid-19)
  • Domestic Violence reaches an all time high – so does Government Funding and grants
  • Ontario’s Assaulted Women’s Hotline reports over 93,000 calls – more than double from the previous year.
2020
  • HH unionizes with Uniform
  • HH leases new Outreach Office
  • HH hires 1st Full-Time Safety and Environment Coordinator
  • HH hires 1st Full-time Peer Support Worker
2018
2018

HH 3rd logo

2004

52,127 women and 36,840 admitted to shelters for abused women in Canada

2002

Estimated 1 in 5 women will be abused in their lifetimes

2000

Philadelphia Model adopted in Canada – women’s advocate groups help to review sex crimes against women with local police

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