About Us
Providing a Spectrum of Hope
Regaining our lives, we regain self-respect.
Since 1975, several thousand women have come to our doors looking for help, seeking a brighter future for themselves and their children.
Victoria Women’s Transition House Society has been there to provide a safe, welcoming shelter, respectful counselling, support and advocacy.
A lot has changed in 35 years. But our purpose has stayed the same - to provide a helping hand and a safe place for women to envision a new future.
Quick Facts About Victoria Women’s Transition House Society
Our staff and volunteers, together with the women and children themselves, are artists envisioning and creating new pictures of life.
- Carolyn Fast, Executive Director
The Society provides emergency shelter services and counselling to over 160 women each year. Over 110 children accompany their mothers to the Shelter where they receive counselling and support and support as well. In addition to our shelter services, Transition House provides community counselling, individual and group, for abused women and their children.
Some details for 2008 - 2009:
- The Crisis Line received 2,063 calls.
- 161 women and 84 children were sheltered.
- 161 adult residents of the Shelter received a total of more than 1,157 individual counseling sessions.
- 358 women and 189 children were referred to the Shelter but were not served immediately because of insufficient space, special needs, being outside the mandate, or other reasons.
- 149 children and 120 mothers or caregivers participated in individual counseling sessions through the Children Who Witness Abuse program.
- 11 children attended the Children Who Witness Abuse summer camp.
- In the Stopping the Violence Program, 145 women received a total of 517 individual counseling sessions.
- 515 women were referred to the Spousal Assault Victim Support Program.
- 96 women accessed services through the Older Women’s Program.
- More than 100 presentations were made in schools and the community and to professionals.
