Luke's Place

What Luke's Place does

Luke's Place Support & Resource Centre for Women & Children is a registered Canadian non-profit founded in 2003 (per the founding year of the operating entity) and headquartered in Durham Region, Ontario, Canada, with a staff of 1-10. Its mandate is to improve the safety and experience of women and their children as they proceed through the family law process after leaving a relationship in which they were subjected to abuse. The organization is the only Ontario entity focused specifically on the intersection of family law and violence against women, offering direct services to women in Durham Region, province-wide pro bono legal advice via video conference and phone, accredited training for family law lawyers, workforce training for Ontario's Family Court Support Workers (FCSWs), and a library of free legal-information toolkits and resource websites including FamilyCourtAndBeyond.ca, LukesPlaceTraining.ca, and AfterSheLeaves.ca.

The product portfolio is service-and-content based rather than technology-based. Direct services comprise legal and family court support, group legal information sessions, and a pro bono summary advice clinic delivered in partnership with volunteer lawyers. Training products include the After She Leaves online course and manual (3rd edition, April 2022, updated for the new Divorce Act and Ontario Children's Law Reform Act), a CPD-accredited online course for family law lawyers priced at $125 per participant, and the Ministry-funded FCSW training program that has run since 2011. Free downloadable toolkits cover parenting arrangements, emergency motions, family court operations, and support for friends and family of survivors. Technology is not a stated dimension of the offering; the online training platform functions as a content delivery vehicle, not a software product.

The revenue model is typical of a Canadian community-services non-profit. The primary funding stream is government contracts — historically the Ministry of the Attorney General and currently the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services for FCSW training — supplemented by individual donations processed through CanadaHelps.org. A disclosed one-time federal grant of $588,816 from Women and Gender Equality Canada was received on 2023-10-31. All direct services to women are provided free of charge; the sole paid product is the lawyer CPD training course. Distribution is multi-channel: in-person delivery in Durham Region, video/phone across Ontario, self-serve online learning, partnered webinars via CLEO Connect, and traveling in-person training for groups of up to 40 participants.

Name

Luke's Place

Legal name

Luke's Place Support & Resource Centre for Women & Children

Website

https://lukesplace.ca

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Luke's Place is a Canadian non-profit support and resource centre that provides free family law information, safety planning, and pro bono legal advice to women who have left abusive relationships, primarily in Durham Region, Ontario, and offers training and resources to family law lawyers and Family Court Support Workers across the province.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Family Law Support Services

NAICS

Other Individual and Family Services (62419)

SIC

Services-Legal Services (8111), Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Legal Aid & Client Advocacy Services (BPAGAEAM)

Keywords

• Family law support
• Domestic violence advocacy
• Legal aid services
• Women safety planning
• CPD lawyer training

Headquarters

HQ city

Oshawa

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Government Funding: Luke's Place receives operational funding from government sources including the Ministry of the Attorney General (originally funding Family Court Support Worker training) and the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (current FCSW funding).
2. Individual Donations: The organization accepts donations through CanadaHelps.org platform, supporting their mission to improve safety and experience of women and children in the family law system.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Luke's Place is a non-profit support and resource centre that provides free family law information, safety planning, and court support to women in Ontario who have left abusive relationships. The organization also trains Ontario's Family Court Support Workers, offers CPD-accredited training to family law lawyers, and publishes toolkits and resource manuals used across the province.

Product overview

Luke's Place is a support and resource centre providing family law information and support services for women who have left abusive relationships. The organization operates as a service-based non-profit rather than a software platform. Its core offerings include direct services (legal and family court support, pro bono legal advice clinics), training programs (After She Leaves e-learning, accredited lawyer training, FCSW training), and resource toolkits (parenting arrangements toolkit, emergency motions toolkit, family court operations guide). Key digital resources include the FamilyCourtAndBeyond.ca website and LukesPlaceTraining.ca for online courses. The portfolio is structured around direct service delivery, workforce training for advocates, and downloadable legal information resources.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Family Court & Beyond: A website providing court survival resources for women
• LukesPlaceTraining.ca
• AfterSheLeaves.ca

Products and services

• Legal and Family Court Support
• Pro Bono Summary Advice Clinic
• Legal Information Sessions
• Family Court Support Worker (FCSW) Training Program
• After She Leaves: Family Law Training for Women's Advocates
• Effective Lawyering with Clients Leaving Abusive Relationships
• Family Court & Beyond
• The Law and Parenting Arrangements After Separation Toolkit
• Emergency Motions Toolkit
• Supporting After Separation Toolkit
• Family Court Operations Guide

Quantifiable outcome

• 231 frontline workers trained across 8 Ontario communities between 2024-2026
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

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Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and secondary.

• Legal Aid OntariocoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2017Luke's Place trained Legal Aid Ontario lawyers and staff as part of LAO's Domestic Violence strategy. In-person training was delivered to regional groups in 2017-2018, building capacity among legal aid providers to support survivors of intimate partner violence.
• CLEO ConnectsecondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerLuke's Place partners with CLEO Connect (Community Legal Education Ontario) to deliver webinars on family law topics including relocating with children, emergency motions, and other issues affecting women navigating the family court system.
• Law Society of Ontario (through LSUC)secondaryStrategic or Co-development PartnerThe lawyer training course 'Effective Lawyering with Clients Leaving Abusive Relationships' is CPD accredited for Professionalism and Substantive Hours through the Law Society's continuing education requirements for lawyers.
• LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLEAF and Luke's Place jointly prepared a policy brief for the Canadian Women's Foundation on the criminalization of coercive control, discussing unintended consequences particularly for women from marginalized communities. Multiple organizations have endorsed Luke's Position on this issue.
• Ontario Association of Interval & Transition Houses and other women's organizationscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerCoalition of Ontario women's organizations that have endorsed Luke's Place's brief on criminalization of coercive control, including shelters, transition houses, and violence prevention organizations across the province.
• FCSW Partner OrganizationscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLuke's Place provides free resources including the After She Leaves Manual and Emergency Motions Toolkit to FCSW Partners and Women's organizations working with survivors of intimate partner violence across Ontario.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic: Toronto-based charitable clinic offering legal services, counselling, and interpreter services to women who have experienced violence. Directly comparable as a women-focused, family-law and IPV specialty organization with similar pro bono clinic and training mandates.
• LEAF (Women's Legal Education and Action Fund): National feminist legal organization using litigation, law reform, and legal education to advance women's equality. Directly comparable as Luke's Place has partnered with LEAF on coercive control policy briefs and shares the family-law/violence-against-women advocacy lens.
• CLEO (Community Legal Education Ontario): Ontario-wide community legal education provider that partners with Luke's Place on webinars. Directly comparable as a free, public legal information and education organization serving vulnerable populations with family law content.
• WomanACT: Toronto-based violence-against-women organization providing training, research, and system coordination. Comparable as a peer in IPV service-provider training and advocacy with overlapping training and resource products.
• Ontario Association of Interval & Transition Houses (OAITH): Provincial umbrella of women's shelters and transition houses. Comparable as a coalition partner endorsing Luke's Place policy positions and serving overlapping survivor populations across Ontario.

Broad incumbents

• Legal Aid Ontario: Statutory agency providing legal aid services across Ontario, including family law certificates. Comparable as a much larger incumbent that funds and absorbs demand for family law services for low-income women, and a current Luke's Place training partner.
• Canadian Women's Foundation: National public foundation funding violence-prevention and gender-equality programs across Canada. Comparable as the funder ecosystem counterpart; recipients of joint Luke's Place/LEAF policy briefs and adjacent in the women-and-gender-equality funding landscape.

Regional players

• METRAC (Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children): Toronto-focused violence-prevention organization addressing safety for women and youth. Comparable as a regional player offering safety planning and resource content with overlapping IPV service philosophy.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/LukesPlace1
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Profiles6 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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Investments

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