The Faye Peterson Transition House (FPTH) provides a safe and supportive temporary shelter environment, crisis services, counselling, Outreach, transitional support, advocacy, early childhood education, and support groups to women, youth and their children.
Our Vision Statement: Every Woman, youth and child(ren) live in a safe, inclusive community free of violence, racism and oppression. Women are equal, independent and fully participatory members of society. Our Mission Statement: The Faye Peterson Transition House (FPTH) provides a safe and supportive temporary shelter environment, crisis services, counselling, Outreach, transitional support, advocacy, early childhood education, and support groups to women, youth and their children escaping violence utilizing harm reduction philosophy. The FPTH is a community based, feminist organization which operates within an Anti Racism/Anti Oppression framework. We are committed to social change through public education, policy development and advocacy, to achieve social justice for all women, youth and children by ensuring the system holds perpetrators of violence against women accountable through vigorous prosecution.
We believe in women's rights to self-determination, dignity, respect and personal accountability.
Recognizing women's and children's needs in crisis, we provide a safe and supportive shelter environment, crisis services, counselling, outreach, advocacy and prevention education to women and their children in Northern Ontario. |
