Offers shelter and services in
Sydney
Cape Breton County
Victoria County
Distress Lines: Local 539-2945
Toll Free 1-800-563-2945
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P.O. Box 487
Sydney, NS B1P 6H4
Outreach 562-3045
Child Care Counsellor 562-1336
Education/Fundraising 562-4190
Fax 562-4677
Email cbtranshouse@ns.aliantzinc.ca
Cape Breton Transition House Foundation: www.transitionhousefoundation.com
How Transition House Can Help You
OUR SERVICES:
Two crisis lines 24-hours-a-day.
Our services are strictly confidential.
Support and shelter to women and children who are emotionally, physically, or sexually abused. Remember: you don't have to be beaten to be abused.
We provide the woman with information on the cycle of violence, a protection plan, the stages a woman faces in a battering relationship, etc.
We provide the woman with feedback to develop her own sense of self worth and understanding that no one deserves to be battered.
We provide a Therapeutic Childcare Program for children who accompany their mothers to Transition House. Often it is the children who are most seriously affected when violence exists in the home.
We provide an Adolescent Program for teenagers who accompany their mothers to Transition House.
We provide an Outreach Program for women in the community who need assistance, and offer support groups for women in the Industrial Area, who live in or have left abusive relationships.
We provide an educational program to schools, service agencies and the community at large.
We provide a support system for the woman, giving her an opportunity to look at her situation and make important decisions that will affect her future.
We provide support to women in court.
We offer two second stage housing units (safe affordable housing). MacAdam House is located in Glace Bay and Callwood House is in Sydney.
Cape Breton Transition House coordinated an integrated approach to family violence - the Cape Breton Inter-agency on Family Violence.
THROUGH EDUCATION AND AWARENESS WE CAN WORK TOGETHER
TO STOP FUTURE VIOLENCE
Financial contributions will help to make Cape Breton Transition House a more comfortable, safe, and healing place, and will help support educational programs.
If you would like to support the shelter through volunteer work or a donation, please contact us at:
TRANSITION HOUSE FOUNDATION
PO Box 487
Sydney, Nova Scotia
B1P 6H4
Our Purpose
To Eliminate Violence Against Women in
Nova Scotia by:
- Working collaboratively with other equality seeking organizations, and the three levels of government, to address barriers that prevent women, and their children from living free of Violence and Abuse
- Advocating for sufficient programs, services and funding for Transition Houses in Nova Scotia
- Increasing public awareness of Violence and Abuse in our society
- Conducting and/or participating in Feminist Participatory Research
- Providing training and networking opportunities for Boards and Staff of our Member Organizations
Contact Us
Provincial Coordinator:
Pamela Harrison
215 - 2099 Gottingen St
Halifax, NS B3K 3B2
1-902-429-7287 [p]
1-902-429-0561 [f]
Media Information
For a THANS response to general issues
pertaining to violence against women
please contact Pamela Harrison
1-902-429-7287 or
1-902-456-1030
coordinator@thans.ca
For a response to issues pertaining to specific
geographic areas in Nova Scotia or to a specific
shelter, please click on Find A Shelter
Disclaimer
The Member Organizations of the
Transition House Association
are not members of Shelter Nova Scotia