Hiatus House is a social service agency offering confidential intervention for families experiencing domestic violence.

A mathematical term that means "break in the circle." Hiatus House is a vital social service agency breaking the cycle of domestic violence.

• An increasingly visible social and legal problem wherein women are abused by their partners. One in four women in Ontario are abused:
• Forms of abuse include:
  • psychological / emotional
  • property and pets
  • physical and sexual
    
    
• A problem with wide-ranging ramifications for the abused woman, her child and partner including:
• the physical and emotional survival of all individuals within the family or relationship
• the future of the family as a unit
• the effect of violence on the children
• the reluctance and discomfort of revealing the abuse to: family, friends, medical, social agencies, legal and police personnel and members of the clergy
• the difficulties encountered on leaving home and partner, taking the children and obtaining financial and emotional support as well as housing
• the obstacles in quickly obtaining legal and social services

"Peace in Society depends upon peace in the family."
- St. Augustine