Resources
Online Resources
Acceso International
Canadian Families and Corrections Network
Ontario Women's Justice Network
Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre
Services
Family Service Centre of Ottawa-Carleton
Youth Services Bureau
Housing/JF Norwood House
Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation (CERA)
Centretown Citizens Ottawa Corporation (CCOC)
City of Ottawa - Housing - Emergency Shelters
CHASEO: Co-operative Housing Association of Eastern Ontario
Harmony House
Social Planning Council of Ottawa
Residential Tenancies Act, 2006 (Ontario)
Prisoners' Justice Day
PrisonJustice.ca - "In support of prisoners and prison justice activism in Canada"
History of Prisoners' Justice Day
Person's Day
Famous 5 Foundation
National Archives - The Famous Five
Sudbury's Person's Day Breakfast
Reports
Women Accused in Ottawa: Two Weeks in Provincial Remand Court (PDF file - 12 pages)
June 2010
By Carol-Lynne Saad, Dorota Widlak & Samantha Turner
LOCKED IN, LOCKED OUT:
IMPRISONING WOMEN IN
THE SHRINKING AND PUNITIVE
WELFARE STATE (PDF file - 37 pages)
2008
By Shoshana Pollack, M.S.W, PhD
Faculty of Social Work
Wilfrid Laurier University
Female Offenders in Canada (PDF file - 23 pages)
February 2008
By Rebecca Kong and Kathy AuCoin, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Statistics Canada
Source: Statistics Canada:
Describing the Homeless Population of Ottawa-Carleton
February 2000
Source: Centre for Research on Community Services (University of Ottawa)
- includes some statistics about homeless female youth and adult women in Ottawa-Carleton
