Statistics

Number of beds: 40

In 2023, the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability documents that 184 women and girls were violently killed in Canada.

From November 26, 2022, to November 25, 2023, 62 women and girls in Ontario lost their lives to gender-based violence in Ontario. **

During the last Statistics Canada “snapshot” date in 2021, 5,466 people were living in shelters for victims of abuse in Canada. 44% of residents were children. For every five residents living in a domestic violence shelter, one resident was identified as First Nations, Métis or Inuit, indicating that Indigenous persons experience abuse at a higher rate than the general population.*

*Source: Statistics Canada
** Source: Annual Femicide List (OAITH)

Birchway Niagara Statistics

Statistics for the fiscal year 2022-23

133 women stayed in shelter

106 children stayed in shelter

2,571 support calls were received on our 24-hour phone/text support line

252 women used services of our Legal Advocate

270 women used the services of our Transitional & Housing Support Advocates

56 women used our office visit counselling services