Luke’s Place 2025-2026 annual report
Luke’s Place remained focused on strengthening responses to intimate partner violence, supporting frontline professionals, and ensuring survivors have access to meaningful legal and community supports this past fiscal year.
Through our frontline services, advocacy initiatives, training programs, and knowledge mobilization efforts, we continued to see both the urgent need for this work and the remarkable dedication of those supporting survivors every day. We are deeply grateful to our staff, volunteers, students, partners, and community collaborators.
There remains a consistent high demand for our frontline services, both for access to legal support from our Legal Support Workers and for legal advice from our volunteer and staff lawyers. A substantial proportion of the women who accessed our services did not have a lawyer, highlighting the critical role our Legal Clinic plays for survivors across the province.
Our province-wide After She Leaves tour traveled to Sault Ste. Marie, Kingston, London, Thunder Bay, and Brampton to deliver impactful two-day training focused on strengthening local capacity to support survivors navigating family court. We updated tools and resources for survivors and their advocates, including launching a new Emergency Motions Course and updating our Tech Safety Toolkit to include more family-law-focused resources.
Luke’s Place continued to play an important role in advocating for systemic change to the family law system. We concluded a multi-year research project and released an executive summary, Diverse Victim-Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and the Ontario Family Law System, highlighting the barriers survivors face and making various recommendations for change.
As we reflect on this year, we remain inspired by the resilience of survivors and the dedication of those working to support them. Together, we will continue striving toward a future where all women and children can live free from violence and have access to a family court system that is responsive to their needs for safety and access to justice.
Read our full 2025–2026 Annual Report to learn more about our impact, achievements, and priorities for the year.