Legal Information - Homelessness & Emergencies
Are you facing homelessness? Do you have an emergency? Resources that can help are listed below.
Housing Emergencies
Ministry of Community and Social Services Homelessness Helplines page - where to call when you are in need of emergency shelter.
List of Rent Assistance and Housing Resources - our tip sheet for Hastings, Lennox & Addington and Prince Edward Counties. This is a list of places you can get funds from to help you with your rent arrears.
Local Ontario Works office - provides assistance for emergency housing if you have become homeless even if you are not currently a recipient of Ontario Works. If you are a recipient of Ontario Works (or Ontario Disability) and are being evicted for rent arrears, you can request Community Start-Up and Maintenance Benefits (CSUMB) to help pay these arrears and prevent your eviction or to pay start up costs at a new residence.
Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) - publications available on Eviction, Fighting an Eviction.
Hastings County
Hastings Housing Resource Centre (HHRC) - provides assistance locating and securing immediate temporary and permanent housing for residents of Hastings County. They provide listings of available housing, information and support to tenants. Landlords can list units for free.
The HHRC provides emergency assistance information on their site. This emergency help page will provide you with information (for Belleville, Quinte West, Centre Hastings and North Hastings) on the following:
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housing
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food
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shelters (for women and children)
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addiction
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financial assistance (Ontario Works emergency fund, community trust)
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counselling
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medical help
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clothing
Prince Edward and Lennox & Addington Counties
Housing Outreach Program - This program (in Prince Edward and Lennox and Addington Counties only), by Prince Edward - Lennox and Addington Social Services, offers a one time assistance loan, to a maximum of $1000, and includes an agreement to repay.
Domestic Violence
Community Legal Education Ontario (CLEO) - produces 2 pamphlets on domestic violence: "Do You Know a Woman Who is Being Abused?" is available online here, as well as "Immigrant Women and Domestic Violence" (this link is to the web page the pamphlet is located on - scroll down to "Immigration and Refugee Fact Sheets" and click on the pamphlet name).
Ontario Women's Justice Network - an online legal resource for women's organizations and individuals working on issues related to justice and violence against women and children. This site also has a page dedicated to rural women called the Rural Women's Justice Guide.
CLEONet - view their pages on partner abuse and family law.
Advocacy Centre for the Elderly - a clinic specializing in assisting low income seniors. Their Elder Abuse page provides definitions of abuse and links to FAQ's, ACE publications and other sources of information.
Emergency Shelters
Belleville
Three Oaks Foundation (613) 966-3074 or 1-800-267-0533
Serves all of Hastings and Prince Edward County
Tyendinaga
Mohawk Territory
Red Cedars
Shelter (613) 967-2003 or 1-800-672-9515
This shelter serves both aboriginal and non-aboriginal
women
Bancroft
Maggie's Resource Centre (613) 332-3010
Picton
Alternatives for Women (613) 476-2787 or Toll Free
1-877-499-6636
Madoc
Three Oaks Foundation (613) 473-1976 or Toll Free 1-888-275-0710
(Note: Madoc office doesn’t actually
have a shelter. The office is for ongoing counselling and outreach
purposes. You can call this number in any event and if need be the
call will be directly rolled over to the
Belleville line, and the Belleville office will make shelter
arrangements.)
Napanee
Lennox & Addington Interval House 613-354-1010 or Toll
Free 1-800-667-1010
Crisis Lines (24 hour service)
Belleville
Three Oaks Foundation
- 613-966-3074 or 1-800-267-0533
Sexual Assault Centre for Quinte & District
- 613-967-6000 or
1-800-909-7007
Crisis Intervention Centre:
● Direct Line - 613-962-7227 OR
1-888-757-7766
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Quinte Health Care
- 613-969-7400 ext. 2753 OR 613-969-5511 ext. 2753
Domestic
Violence/Sexual Assault Response Program (DV/SARP):
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Quinte Health Care
613-969-7400, ext 2095 or 1-877-477-8617
Picton
Alternatives for Women (613) 476-2787 or Toll Free
1-877-499-6636
Madoc
Three Oaks Foundation (613) 473-1976 or Toll Free 1-888-275-0710
Napanee
Lennox & Addington Interval House 613-354-1010 or Toll
Free 1-800-667-1010
For non-sexual abuse or abuse not by an intimate partner:
Counselling Services of Belleville and District - 966-7413
Counselling
Sexual Assault Centre Quinte & District - Free counselling for women/men survivors of historical sexual abuse or recent sexual assault. Counselling is available for survivors, and we also provide support and information for parents and partners of survivors, including counselling services for non-offending parents of child victims. Sexual Assault Centre Kingston - provides free, confidential, short-term and long-term counseling to female survivors of sexual violence. A First Response Worker is at the Napanee and Area Community Health Centre office one Friday every month.
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