Cover Your Tracks

If you share your computer with other individuals or family members, they can check what sites you have visited. Before you finish browsing, delete the record of your visit.

PC Windows – Internet Explorer
(Before closing the Browser)
Step 1: Select Tools in the menu bar. Go to the Internet Options Dialog Box and select the General Tab.
Step 2: In Temporary Internet Files, click Files. Check the “Delete all offline files” and click OK.
Step 3: In History, click Clear History and click OK.
Step 4: In Temporary Internet Files, click Delete Cookies and then OK.
Step 5: Click OK to exit the Internet Options Box.

Assault/Rape Crisis

Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape

(416) 597-8808 / TTY (416) 597-1214.

24 hours/day. She will listen and talk to you.

Assaulted Women’s Helpline

416-863-0511

Violence Against Women Program

If you are in an abusive relationship–we can help. Services are available in a variety of languages, to women of diverse backgrounds or with special needs, living or working in Toronto.

Shelternet

Shelternet has links to shelters across Canada. Women share their stories of abuse and how they got help. The site is tranlated into ten languages.

Shelters – Central Intake Hotline

(416) 397-5637

Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic

(416) 323-9149. Provides councelling, legal, interpreter services for women who have been physically or sexually abused.

Ontario Human Rights Commission

Information on female genital mutilation and sexual harassment.

Ontario Women’s Justice Network

Information and help with Child Custody and Access and Custody Issues for Immigrant and Refugee Women.

Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre

Head Office: (416) 465-6021. Riverdale Immigrant Women’s Centre is committed to supporting Chinese speaking and South Asian women to take greater control of their lives. RIWC provides culturally appropriate and linguistically specific settlement and counseling services with the use of community determined strategies, which are developed and delivered by immigrant women.

Newcomer Services

Newcomer Women’s Services Toronto (NEW)

A non-profit, charitable organization located at Pape and Danforth avenues. NEW’s goal is to promote the social, economic, and cultural integration, and personal well-being of women and their families who are new to Canada.

Settlement.Org for Newcomers

Information Newcomers to Ontario can trust.

YMCA Newcomer Information Centre

Visit a YMCA Newcomer Information Centre today to get the information you need on housing, social services, finding a job, arranging child care, and more.

Employment Issues

Intercede

(416) 483-4554. For the Rights of domestic Workers, Caregivers and Newcomers. Services include counseling on Immigration or employment related problems; assistance in filling out applications, referrals to education/training, housing, social programs, legal and medical services, to name just a few.

Health

Community Health Centre

We are a team of health professionals who work from an inclusive, feminist, anti-racist, anti-oppression framework. We specialize in working with immigrant and/or refugee women, women with disabilities, young women and older women.

Toronto Public Health Dental Services

(416) 392-0907. Free dental care for eligible children, high school students, and seniors. Services include examinations, fillings, extractions, cleanings, fluoride treatment, sealants, root canals on selected teeth.