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York Region Centre for Community Safety

YRCCS provides a collaborative hub of services to individuals affected by domestic violence. Vision: Build a safer community for those affected by violence.

Values: We value accountability, communication an solution focused collaboration in our delivery of client centered services. We recognize the importance of integrity, inclusivity and respect within the organization to make a meaningful difference.

11/24/2025

While boys are more likely to express the trauma of witnessing violence in the home externally, the harm to girls who witness violence in their homes is often more covert.

Research shows that girls who witness violence are more likely to suffer from depression and low self-esteem as adults. (Journal of Family Violence, 1995)

A girl who grows up with a father who abuses her mother is six times more likely to be sexually assaulted than a girl who grows up in a non-violent home. (Children’s Legal Rights Journal, 2021)

An investment in hope can give a young girl the chance to identify with healthy relationships and experience healthy relationships as an adult.

Learn more and invest in hope at InvestInHope.ca.

11/21/2025

While girls who are exposed to violence in the home are more likely to hold their feelings inside, boys are more likely to react with hostility and aggression. (Statistics Canada, 2001)

A boy who sees his mother being abused is 10 times more likely to abuse his own partner as an adult. (Children’s Legal Rights Journal, 2021)

Research shows that boys who witness intimate partner violence are more likely to approve of violence, to believe that violence reflects well on them, and to justify their own violent behaviour. (National Institutes of Health, 2011)

They are also more likely, as adults, to show symptoms on the Trauma Symptom Checklist than men who did not witness violence in the home as children. (Journal of Family Violence, 1995)

An investment in hope can mean a healthier future for boys and their future partners.

Learn more and invest in hope at InvestInHope.ca.

11/19/2025

Your support can flip the script on intimate partner violence.

Please invest in hope, invest in YRCCS, and donate today www.investinhope.ca

11/17/2025

Because of the way trauma impacts the brain, many victims and survivors of intimate partner violence feel unsafe, even when their abusive partner is not nearby.

In a healthy situation, a person’s stress response will activate in a time of perceived danger, then deactivate once the threat has passed. But for trauma survivors, this stress response can become hypersensitive, making everyday, safe situations feel unsafe.

Not only might a woman feel unsafe walking down the street, but she may also find it extremely difficult to trust people, including family members, friends and coworkers. She may be anxious and hypervigilant at work or parent-teacher conferences.

By investing in hope, you can create a world that is more productive, where children can be more relaxed and thrive, where shadows are replaced by opportunities.

Learn more and invest in hope at InvestInHope.ca.

11/14/2025

Disrupting violence in the home not only creates a brighter future for the woman; it
creates a brighter future for her kids, too.

Children are incredibly intuitive. A mother’s fear becomes her children’s fears. A mother’s anxiety becomes a children’s anxieties. This may lead to emotional, behavioural, developmental, and physical health problems that present in the classroom, on the sports field, or elsewhere in society, both when the children are young and after they’ve grown into adults.

What’s more, research has shown that about one in ten spousal assaults against women also involve a child being threatened or harmed. If the woman is being abused, her children are at risk, too. (Statistics Canada, 2001) The majority of children who witness violence in the home are also physically or sexually assaulted as children. (Statistics Canada, 2015) Children in violent homes witness an estimated 80% of assaults.

In addition to the long-term psychological harm this may cause, it also puts them at an increased risk of being assaulted by the abuser. (Children’s Legal Rights Journal, 2021) What’s more, children who are abused are far more likely to be victimized by violent crime — including assault, sexual assault, and robbery — and to experience addiction, anxiety, depression, and homelessness as they grow older. (Statistics Canada, 2015)

An investment in hope can disrupt violence in the home, paying dividends immediately and in the years and generations to come.

Learn more and invest in hope at InvestInHope.ca.

11/10/2025

When someone repeatedly tells you you’re worthless, that nobody else will ever love you, that you’re a bad mom, that you’re crazy, eventually, you begin to believe it. Your self-confidence and self-worth are decimated.

If you really are unlovable, if you really are 'crazy,' or a 'bad' mom, unworthy of anything better, then you think, why leave?

When a woman arrives at York Region Centre for Community Safety and is repeatedly told she is worthy, she is lovable, she is a good mom, that she is not imagining things really are as bad as they seem, when she is given validation and care and options, suddenly, she has hope.

By flipping a very powerful and consequential script, an investment in hope can support a woman in leaving an abusive relationship. Invest in hope today.

Visit InvestInHope.ca.

11/04/2025

What's the return on hope for women and children fleeing intimate partner violence?

Hope can flip the script; it can break the cycle. It can make the world feel safe, and create a healthier future for girls and boys who have witnessed violence in their homes. Hope can create a more prosperous community for all.

Hope can mean survival. It can mean safety. It can mean second chances.

At York Region Centre for Community Safety, we invest in hope every day. How? By wrapping survivors in care — whatever care they need. By answering questions and creating connections. By seeing. By listening. By believing.

Explore the videos in this campaign to see how hope can help survivors of intimate partner violence. And invest in hope today. Learn more and invest in hope at InvestInHope.ca.

11/03/2025

This statistic highlights how common intimate partner violence is. These experiences also have a lasting impact on an individual's well-being, safety, and daily life.

If you are currently experiencing, or have experienced domestic/family violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence and/or human trafficking, you are not alone. Please contact us at 905-836-7601, info@yrccs.ca, or www.yrccs.ca to get connected to a trained domestic violence Advocate and let us help. All our services are confidential.

10/30/2025

Create a subtle way to signal distress through everyday texts (e.g., asking about a “recipe” or “project”) so trusted contacts know to check in.

If you are currently experiencing, or have experienced domestic/family violence, intimate partner violence, sexual violence and/or human trafficking, you are not alone. Please contact us at 905-836-7601, info@yrccs.ca, or www.yrccs.ca to get connected to a trained domestic violence Advocate and let us help. All our services are confidential.

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25 Deverill Court
Markham, ON
L6G0C7

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 5pm
Tuesday	9am - 5pm
Wednesday	9am - 5pm
Thursday	9am - 5pm
Friday	9am - 5pm

Telephone

+19058367601

Website

http://yrccs.ca/

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