Certainly there is the research we got from the “Saying Yes” report, the subtitle of which is “Effective Practices in Sheltering Women with Mental Health and Addiction Issues”. What we're hearing in some of the provinces—not all of them and not so much in the Prairies—is that shelters are seeing more and more abused women with mental health and addiction issues coming to their door. A greater percentage of the women who are coming are those women, and fewer of them are coming directly from domestic violence incidents. There is a strong appetite for increased skills and training around how to deal with that. The report “Saying Yes” lists a number of practices that can help a shelter shift to the model.
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