Where

Your Dollars Go

Walk A Mile In Her Shoes in support of the YWCA of Calgary is raising funds to help women and their children as they take steps to walk away from domestic violence.

YWCA Sheriff King Home Shelter: your donations will support the YWCA Sheriff King Home Shelter, which is a 42 bed emergency shelter where abused women, with or without children. They may stay up to a maximum of 21 days. Services include emergency shelter, supportive individual and group counselling, child support, community liaison follow-up support, basic needs, community referrals and advocacy.  Walk-in crisis counselling is also available to women in the community. The 24-hour crisis line provides emergency assistance to victims of family violence by trained shelter counsellors at the YWCA Sheriff King Home.

The immediate goal of the shelter is to move the family out of crisis into safety.

Your donations also provide Community Based Programming opportunities for women and children to stabilize their lives:

Family Violence Programming for Children and Adolescents

  • Children's Domestic Violence Counselling
  • Children's Outreach Counsellor
  • Families and Schools Stopping Abuse (FASSA) - Children's Group
  • Paths of Change Group Counselling Program for Children
  • Paths of Change Group Counselling Program for Adolescents
  • Choices with Horses

Family Violence Programming for Parents and Families

  • Paths of Change Community Parenting Program
  • Paths of Change Father's Pareneting Program
  • Families and Schools Stopping Abuse (FASSA) - Parenting Group
  • Filial Parenting Group
  • Family Counselling
  • Outreach Counselling

Family Violence Programming for Adult Women and Men

  • YWCA Adult Services - Group and Individual Counselling Programs for Women
  • YWCA Adult Services - Group and Individual Counselling Programs for Men

Visitation Services Programming

  • Community Safe Visitation
  • Safe Visitation


Please visit the YWCA of Calgary website for more details on these programs.