Every woman, man and child has the right to live in a safe, nurturing and supportive environment.

My Safe House will provide:

• crisis intervention,
• shelter services,
• counselling,
• advocacy, and
• learning.

	Ontario, Canada "My Safe House". Contact can be made by your own email to "info" at this web site domain or from here on the WWW, contact us. Just tell us what your situation is and we'll see what "My Safe House" can do for your situation. Visit informational web pages at  Kids Help Phone, Intervention-help and Help For Troubled Teens first to see if any of these services suit you better.
	Join our efforts. There are a variety of ways you as a volunteer professional can become involved in our community-based services including counselling, peer support, learning, court accompaniment, transportation, information and referrals, emergency shelter, personal advocacy and more. Contact us. To make donations of furniture, text books, teaching/learning aids, supplies, food, tools, fencing, personal services or funding, contact us.

Surf Safely It is important that your abuser or cult leaders do not follow you to a safe house. Computers record every little thing you do. It is impossible to clear your tracks completely. Your computer stores hundreds of bits of data, including information about which websites you visit, your passwords, what your emails say and who you talk to on MSN or other chats. An abuser or intruder on your system can readily track the websites you visit or read email messages and know you are talking to us about getting help. When you have made contact with us and are accepted as a client you will be given a challenge and response question and answer. Always make certain you know who you are talking to for sure. If you suspect your activities are monitored, they likely are. Abusive persons or cultists are often controlling and want to know your every move. You dont need to be a computer programmer or have special skills to monitor someone's computer activities - anyone can do it and there are many ways to monitor your activities - even without having direct access to your computer. Email is not secure. Sending email is like sending a postcard through the mail. Anyone along the path can read what it says. If you need to talk to someone about the danger or abuse in your life, by using the web contact form on our pages, your message is confined to our servers. It's better to use the help hot line. Please use the method of communication agreed to by you and counsellors once contact has been established. If you must use email to discuss a situation, we suggest you use an account that your abuser doesn't know about. Set up a new account with a free email service like hotmail, yahoo, or gmail. DO NOT use a name or password that contains any identifying information (no names, nicknames, initials, birthdates, zipcodes, etc.) Instead use a name and password that contains a random mix of letters, CAPITAL letters and numbers (for example, "76AS6asD") - Make sure you can remember the user name and password! If you must write it down somewhere, put it in a place your abuser is unlikely to find it. If the computer asks if you would like it to save your password or login information tell it NO. If you must use a computer that your abuser knows about, we suggest "safe" internet surfing. For example, if you are planning to flee to Montreal, don't look just at Montreal web pages for community resources, jobs, apartments, bus tickets, etc. Look for the same information in at least a half dozen other regions.
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This project is funded in part and sponsored by Themis