LEA Place Women's Resource Centre

LEA Place serves women and adolescent girls on the eastern part of the Eastern Shore, and parts of the Musquodoboit Valley.  Service may include:

Support Counseling and Crisis Intervention

• One on one counseling
• Crisis management
• Drop-in
• Support Groups

Advocacy and Accompaniment

• Court Accompaniment
• Systems Navigation

Information and Referral

• Legal Information
• Primary health issues
• Financial security
• Community-based services
• Employment support
• Addiction, health, and mental health services

Programs

• Life skills and personal development
• Family and youth
• Self-expression and leisure
• Poverty relief and food security
• Housing
• Economic development and self-sufficiency
• Sexual violence prevention and intervention
• Health and wellness
• Healthy relationships
• Sexual assault services

Outreach

Community Education

• Healthy relationships, self-esteem, violence prevention in-school programs
• Primary health issues/social determinants of health

Community Development Initiatives

• Interagency committees
• Social advocacy
• Housing and homelessness projects
• Food security and anti-poverty initiatives
• Sexual Assault service development
• Violence prevention
• Multicultural linkages
• Social research/Action research
• Health community initiatives

Social Advocacy