Inasmuch House

Services

Safe Shelter

Women, non-binary people, and their children can leave an abusive situation and find safe, free accommodation. While at Inasmuch House, they have access to meals, clothing, laundry, and other personal supports. While residing at Inasmuch House, clients will have support from a Residential Client Advocate to assist in goal-setting, accessing resources and programs within Inasmuch House or connecting with community agencies.

Residential Client Advocates provide emotional support, practical advice, and community referrals.

Child and Youth Workers

While staying Inasmuch House, mothers/caregivers, children, and youth can access support from our knowledgeable and trained child and youth workers.

Legal Advocacy

The Legal Advocate assists both residential and outreach clients identify, connect, and engage with legal services in the community. This program assists in navigating areas of family law, criminal law, and immigration law.  Our Legal Advocate is not a lawyer or a paralegal, but provides education, support, advocacy, and legal appointment accompaniments with clients.

Clients that are unfamiliar with the Canadian legal context will be provided with accessible information, language interpretation, and assistance with navigating the various legal systems.

As an outreach program, you do not have to be residing in the shelter to receive this service. The Legal Advocate offers appointments by phone, email, or in person.

Transitional Housing Support Worker

The on-site Transitional Housing Support Workers assist women and non-binary people with finding and maintaining safe affordable housing, safety planning, risk management, applying for social housing, securing financial assistance, and connecting with other community services.

As an outreach program, clients do not have to be residing in the shelter to receive this service.

The Transitional Housing Support Workers offer appointments by phone, email, or in person.

Groups and One-to-One

LEAF Group Programming (Learning Effective Anti-Violence in Families) provides both residential and outreach clients a safe space to discuss abuse and violence in group family setting.

The LEAF program helps children and youth (ages 4-16) who have witnessed violence talk about their experience, provide abuse education and awareness, provide emotional support and offer early intervention to those who have been exposed to violence.

Mothers/caregivers are also encouraged to participate in programming to discuss safety plans, anger management, and how to recognize abuse.

Gender-Based Violence and Mental Health Counsellor

The Gender Based Violence/Mental Health (GBV/MH) Counsellor at Inasmuch House provides supportive counselling to residential and outreach clients that have experienced gender-based violence, and assist with mental health crisis’s within our residential programming.

The GBV/MH Counsellor works with both those residing in shelter, and outreach clients.

Appointments for counselling may be conducted over the phone or in person at this time.

Text Inasmuch

In addition to our 24-hour crisis phone support, Text Inasmuch is a secure text and web-based service for women and non-binary people in Hamilton experiencing homelessness and abuse. Our client advocates provide emotional support, practical advice and referrals. Learn more here.

ALL services are free and confidential.