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About WRRC
Our Rural Roots...
The WRRC was founded in 1990 by Donna Rietschlin and Fran Donohue – two local women who were trying to find help
for an abused woman who reached out to them. Concerned that the closest
services were available in London, they formed a steering committee that
undertook a needs assessment and a feasibility study. The WRRC was
incorporated on March 10, 1990.
View our
Philosophy,
History,
Milestones.
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Our Logo...
On
January 17, 2006
The Women’s Rural Resource Centre launched a new logo and “look” to
better reflect its role in providing services to abused women.
The design conveys the Agency's critical role in raising
awareness of woman abuse and in providing shelter and counselling services
to women struggling to create lives free from violence.
Our goal is to better communicate the services we offer.
The new design is a critical element in helping members of our community
understand our role and how we can help.
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The daisy is used by agencies supporting abused women to
symbolize hope and promise (see
www.daisyofhope.org for information about this provincial
campaign). In the Women’s Rural Resource Centre’s new logo, the two daisies represent
a woman and a child indicating that the agency serves abused women and
their children. The mother daisy forms the “woman” symbol signifying the
agency’s woman-centered service. The shelter outline surrounds and
“holds” the daisy reflecting the safety and grounding integral to
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Our Programs & Services
The
WRRC offers residential and non-residential supports to abused women and
their children through our programs. These include:
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24-hour Help Line 1-800-265-5390:
this line is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year
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Shelter
– also referred to as emergency shelter or crisis shelter or “first
stage” housing: open to women 16 yrs old or over from anywhere who needs
a safe place to stay with or without her children
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Second Stage Housing:
a
safe place for women and/or their children to live for up to one year
after leaving an abusive relationship. Rent is set on a
“geared-to-income” basis.
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Counselling:
individual and group support for women 16 years of age or older who wish
a safe place to talk and learn about their experience of abuse in an
intimate relationship. These services are provided in Strathroy as well
as outreach sites in West Middlesex County: Ilderton, Lucan, Glencoe,
Melbourne, Mt. Brydges, Newbury and Parkhill.
All services
are free and confidential.
To learn more about our Programs & Services,
click here.
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