Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced today that Ontario will receive $176 million for mental health & addictions services. This comes at very crucial time as...
October is recognized as Child Abuse Prevention Month. Keeping the most vulnerable members of our community safe and well-cared for is a responsibility we all...
Today, Wednesday September 30th, 2020, is recognized as Orange Shirt Day. Orange Shirt Day is a day used to commemorate the residential school experience, while...
The Guelph Public Library, in collaboration with Legal Aid Ontario and the John-Howard Society of Waterloo-Wellington are assisting those who need to attend court virtually...
Victim Services Wellington and Lakehead University have partnered on a research project exploring the opinions that survivors of sexual assault and/or intimate partner violence have...
Victim Services Wellington and Lakehead University have partnered on a research project exploring the opinions that survivors of sexual assault and/or intimate partner violence have...
Victim Services Wellington and Lakehead University have partnered on a research project exploring the opinions that survivors of sexual assault and/or intimate partner violence have...
The Guelph Police Service announced yesterday that they are receiving a large amount of fraud/scam reported cases. The most common reports being those related to...
On Monday, the Waterloo Regional Police Service announced that reported elder abuse cases in 2020 have skyrocketed. According to the article, so far this year...
Victim Services Wellington and Lakehead University have partnered on a research project exploring the opinions that survivors of sexual assault and/or intimate partner violence have...
September 1st marked the beginning of the Guelph Police Service Body Worn Camera (BWC) Pilot Project. This project will run until August 31st, 2021 at...
“Support NOT Stigma,” is Monday’s slogan for International Overdose Awareness Day. At VSW we believe in this movement as we often attend death notifications and/or...
This year, Wellington Guelph Drug Strategy (WGDS)’s annual STOP THE STIGMA event is combining with International Overdose Awareness Day to bring more awareness to death...
VSW would like to share that there is a new online/phone peer support group for families and friends impacted by missing loved ones (missing persons),...
"Human trafficking is a vicious and violent crime that preys on our most vulnerable, robbing them of their health, safety and dignity." -Solicitor General Jones
For many of us in Guelph-Wellington County, when Stage 3 was enacted, most of us started to feel some normalcy again. However, our senior population...
It happens here. These words are hardly recognized or spoken between most social bubbles. For most people human trafficking is seen on television shows or...
We often discuss women who are trapped in abusive relationships as they constitute the majority of domestic abuse victims. Though, it is important to establish...
Sexual violence crosses all social boundaries, affects people of every age and cultural background, and has devastating impacts on the lives of survivors and their...
