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her partner (in Canada)
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children who have lived at
Harmony House
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at Harmony House
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feed with our bi-weekly foodbank
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Domestic Violence in 2009
$ 0 billion
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apartments Harmony House
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a woman to leave an abusive
situation for good
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will end up in an abusive relationship
if she experienced abuse as a child
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How often a woman is killed by her partner (in Canada)
0 days
The number of women and
children who have lived at
Harmony House
0

More than

Number of Individual units
at Harmony House
0 years,
Numbers of families we help feed with our bi-weekly foodbank
0
Total economic impact of Domestic Violence in 2009
$ 0 billion
Number of individual apartments Harmony House
0
Average number of times it takes a woman to leave an abusive situation for good
0
How much more likely a woman will end up in an abusive relationship if she experienced abuse as a child
0 times

Harmony House History

1986

90th Anniversary of St. Matthew’s Church (where the funding and conception of a 2nd stage shelter came from for HH)

1986

Harmony House Steering Committee was set up to plan the 2nd stage shelter

Early 1980’s

A strong network of victim support programs grows out of grassroots activity to provide justicerelated support to victims of crime

1979

71 Womens Shelters in Canada

Early 1970’s

1st womens shelter and Sexual Assault Centre opened in Vancouver, BC

1965

Criminal Code of Canada is amended so that women do not have to prove a greater level of injury if they are assaulted by a partner than if they are assaulted by a stranger.

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