Goals and Objectives

Our primary goal is to ensure that victimized persons receive immediate intervention, support and assistance with regard to their primary needs.

This includes providing assistance of a compassionate nature, provision of appropriate referrals, and maintaining positive police and community partnerships.

  • Providing area and ethnic specific community agency referrals to ensure ease of accessibility and use.
  • Offering short term support and information on effective options for long-term assistance to victims.
  • To develop and maintain connections within the community to continually provide victims, police and emergency services with information about the continuum of services available in the Region.
  • To make the services of this Organization available to the referral agencies and victims on a continual basis.
  • To provide services that are division specific to the Waterloo Region over an extended period of time.
  • To recruit, train and coordinate a competent and confident core group of volunteers.
  • To ensure awareness and educate referral and community agencies of the benefits and uses of the Organization.
  • To reduce the negative impact of victimization by providing emotional support, information, practical assistance and immediate referrals to community services.