Our Mission
Is to reduce financial barriers and help couples make informed, healthy choices about their relationship.
Our Vision
Is to create a future where healthy love is the norm,
and every relationship has the chance to thrive.
Goal One:
Improve the Mental Health of Couples
Couples counselling helps reduce stress, anxiety, and emotional strain by creating a safe space to express feelings and resolve conflicts. It can improve communication and emotional regulation, benefiting both partners’ mental well-being.
Goal Two:
Improve the Mental Health of Children
When parents work on their relationship, children benefit from a more stable, peaceful home environment. It models healthy conflict resolution and emotional expression, shaping their own future relationships and mental health.
Goal Three:
Build Stronger Communities
When couples break harmful cycles and build mutual respect, they ripple out positive change by becoming emotionally resilient individuals who contribute more compassion, patience, and empathy to their communities.
Victims of police-reported family violence and intimate partner violence, by type of violence, gender and year, Canada, 2009 to 2023.
Rates for police-reported family violence (+3%) and intimate partner violence (+1%) increased in 2023. There were 139,020 victims of family violence and 123,319 victims (aged 12 years and older) of intimate partner violence that came to the attention of police—a rate of 350 victims of family violence and 354 victims of intimate partner violence per 100,000 population.
On October 24th, 2024, the Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics at Statistics Canada released a series of downloadable data tables detailing the number and characteristics of victims of police-reported family violence and intimate partner violence. This release presents high-level trends for these types of violence and reflects only incidents brought to the attention of the police. Past research has highlighted that these types of violence are often not reported to authorities. Younger and older victims—that is, children and youth and seniors—in particular may be unaware that they are being victimized, may not know how to seek help, may be unable to report their victimization, and may be dependent on the perpetrator. As such, the data presented here likely underestimates the full scope of the issue.
In this release, family violence and intimate partner violence include physical and sexual assault, harassment, uttering threats and other forms of violence that reach the criminal threshold. Family violence is violence committed by spouses, parents, children, siblings and extended family members, while intimate partner violence is violence committed by current and former legally married spouses, common-law partners, dating partners and other intimate partners. Victims of family violence and victims of intimate partner violence are not mutually exclusive groups, as victims of a current or former spouse or common-law partner are included in each group.