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Please see the Resources and Referrals section of our Advocacy page.

Services and Contacts at Dalhousie

  • Dalhousie Student Union: for any student-related issue.
  • Office of Human Rights, Equity & Harassment Prevention: Offers advice, information and support to students, faculty and staff. Any vexatious, unwelcome, or threatening/intimidating behaviour is not tolerated at Dalhousie. (See the Code of Student Conduct.) If you or a friend, male or female, is having difficulty, please contact the DWC or the Office of Human Rights, Equity & Harassment Prevention. Henry Hicks Arts & Administration Building, Basement Level, Room 2. 494-1137. Contact: Gaye Wishart, Harrassment Prevention/Conflict Management Advisor, gaye.wishart@dal.ca.
  • Dalhousie Student Advocacy Service: Helps students receive fair and reasonable decisions on issues dealing with academic appeal and discipline matters. All inquiries are confidential. SUB, Room 310. dsas@dal.ca. 494-2205.
  • Canadian Federation of Students: Serving the interests of students and their unique needs, this organization lobbies the government and organizes around a number of issues: increasing tuition costs and discrimination against single parent students.
  • Dalhousie Association of Women and the Law: A feminist student-run society based out of Dalhousie Law School. They are committed to collective decision-making and work toward the improvement of the status of women.
  • Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group: Information and referrals on social justice issues and activism.
  • Black Student Advising Centre: Provides services and programs in support of students of African descent. BSAC offers a wide range of opportunities for students and faculty including bursaries and scholarships, mentoring, a newsletter publication, and social events. Contact: Oluronke Taiwo, Advisor, 494-2210 (office) or 880-4602 (cell), taiwooa@dal.ca.
  • DalOut: The LGBTQ Society of Dalhousie University. For advocacy, information, or friendship. This rad group actively serves the Dal community by promoting diversity, fighting homophobia, and providing a safe apace on campus for LGBTQ faculty and staff and their allies. SUB, Room 321. 494-2190. DalOUT@dal.ca
  • CKDU: Halifax’s only alternative community radio station. The best of the best, CKDU specializes in counter-mainstream programming.

Services and Contacts in Halifax

  • Adsum House: Emergency shelter for homeless and transient women 16 years of age and over and their children. Offers meals, emergency clothing, counselling, referrals, and child care services. 2421 Brunswick Street, Halifax. 423-4443 or 429-4443.
  • Bryony House: Emergency shelter for emotionally and/or physically abused women and their children. Offers counselling, referrals and support groups. Provides mothers and children with a self-empowering and safe environment. Suite 119, 2786 Agricola Street, Halifax. 429-9002. info@byronyhouse.ca.
  • Avalon Sexual Assault Center: Offers 24 hour support and advocacy through the crisis line. Will accompany survivors of sexual assault through the process of reporting the assault. Conducts support groups with adult women survivors and non-offending parents of childhood sexual abuse. Can provide info and referrals. Office: 422-4240. Crisis line: 425-0122. avaloncentre@eastlink.ca.
  • Halifax Sexaul Health Clinic (formerly Planned Parenthood Metro Clinic): Provides sexual and reproductive health care. Services include: pregnancy tests, free condoms, birth control, screening and testing for sexually transmitted infections, abortion counselling and referral, anonymous HIV tests, the Morning After Pill, and Pap tests. NO DROP-INS—call to make appointment: 455-9656.
  • Eating Disorders Action Group: Provides information and support for women and men in recovery from all forms of eating disorders including anorexia, bulimia, laxative abuse, over-exercise, compulsive eating and body image problems. Also offers parent support groups. Open to men and women of all ages, meetings held in Halifax. 300 Pleasant Street, Simpson Hall, Room 461, Nova Scotia Hospital, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, B2Y 3Z9. 443-9944. reception@edag.ca.
  • Women’s Employment Outreach: Provide free services to women who are underemployed, unemployed, or nearing unemployment: job postings, counselling, workshops, information and referrals. Suite 807, 1888 Brunswick Street, Halifax. 422-8023. .
  • Midwifery Coalition of Nova Scotia: Provides information on midwifery care, alternatives to medicalization of reproduction. MidwiferyCoalitionNS@gmail.com.

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