Calls to Regina Transition House increasing beyond pandemic levels
She said that it’s important for people to be able to access support when they need it as soon as possible in their own community by making outreach and different types of services in more creative or different ways as well as supporting and expanding shelters and the current outreach programs.“We get a lot of calls where women are whispering because they don’t wanna be heard making a call to a crisis line; they have to hang up suddenly because their partner might know what they are up to.
The problem doesn’t stop at escaping violence. Lack of affordable housing and supports often forces them back where they started. She added that larger families have a hard time finding safe housing as there are a lot of barriers to accessing subsidized housing. A lot of women come in without any IDs, no finances, so they have to start from scratch. Getting birth certificates, health cards before they can even sign them up for housing.Taylor said that over the summer months they have seen more pregnant women asking for help after facing violence.
“In our communities basically our indigenous women are at most risk, based on what we see, anywhere from 85-90 per cent of our clients are often indigenous,” she said.
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