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Our Impact

Your support has an impact at an individual, community and system level.

Your support and commitment to our mission has helped us to engage survivors in decision making, improve the services and supports available to survivors of violence and advocate for bold policy solutions.

242

survivors engaged in research in 2021

71

community agencies convened for community planning in 2021

30

training sessions delivered in 2021

4

public policy consultations
held in 2021

20

survivors trained in community-based research in 2021

3

public policy campaigns in 2021

511

people engaged in training and capacity building in 2021

46

survivors engaged in policy development in 2021

Herstory

The Woman Abuse Council of Toronto was created in 1991 under the name Metro Woman Abuse Protocol Project by the office of the Chairman of Metropolitan Toronto. For the first eight years, the organization operated as a community-based coalition under the trusteeship of Jewish Family and Children’s Services. In 1999, the name was changed to the Woman Abuse Council of Toronto and the council was incorporated as an independent non-profit organization.

In January 2010, the Woman Abuse Council of Toronto adopted a second official name: WomanACT, and was granted charitable status.