Courage Center

What Courage Center does

Courage Center is a Canadian non-profit organization headquartered in Shediac, New Brunswick, that provides counselling, support services, and a housing centre for victims of family violence and their children. Its functional focus is direct delivery of trauma-informed social services to a defined vulnerable beneficiary population in its local region, rather than technology-enabled service delivery. The organization operates with a small staff of 11-50 employees and maintains a public web presence at healingstartshere.ca, although the site currently renders as a loading/verification page and does not expose substantive product, service catalog, or program details.

The underlying "product" is a bundle of human-delivered services — individual and group counselling, case support, and emergency/transitional housing for women and children fleeing family violence. There is no disclosed technology stack, digital platform, or proprietary tooling in the input data; the offering is service-led rather than product-led. No management team, board, partner agencies, or referral network details are documented in the available sources.

The business model is that of a small community-based non-profit rather than a revenue-generating enterprise. Financing is not disclosed beyond a single 2014 reference to Bell Let's Talk as a listed investor/contributor; no government grant programs, donation cadences, earned-income streams, or contract structures are described. There are no disclosed financials, no pricing or fee-for-service signals (and none would be expected from a free-to-beneficiary social-service model), and no documented customer or beneficiary counts. As a result, scale, revenue base, and growth trajectory cannot be reliably quantified from the supplied data.

Name

Courage Center

Website

https://healingstartshere.ca

Company type

Private

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Courage Center is a Canadian non-profit in Shediac, New Brunswick, providing counselling, support services, and a housing centre for victims of family violence and their children.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Domestic Violence Support Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Child and Youth Services (62411), Emergency and Other Relief Services (624230)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Domestic Violence & Abuse Support Services (BPAGAEAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Youth Mentoring & Positive Youth Development Nonprofits (BPAGADAD), Family Resource Centers & Wraparound Support Services (EDACALAH)

Keywords

• Family violence counselling
• Victim support services
• Domestic violence shelter
• Community housing services
• Trauma support counselling

Headquarters

HQ city

Shediac

HQ country

Canada

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

Courage Center provides counselling, support, and housing services for victims of family violence and their children. It is a non-profit organization operating a Centre-based program in Shediac, Canada, focused on helping individuals and families affected by domestic and family violence.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Counselling Services for Victims of Family Violence
• Victim Support Services
• Housing Centre for Victims of Family Violence

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Regional players

• Nova Scotia Transition House Association: Atlantic Canadian umbrella for transition houses serving women and children experiencing abuse. Directly comparable service model in the same geographic region as Courage Center (Shediac, NB).
• Narine's House / Second Stage Housing programs: Second-stage housing and family-violence support programs in New Brunswick and Atlantic Canada. Operates the same continuum of housing-plus-counselling services in the same regional ecosystem.

Direct peers

• YWCA Canada: National federation of YWCAs delivering women's shelters, counselling, and family-violence support across Canada. Directly comparable to Courage Center in its integrated service model and target population.
• Chrysalis House (Calgary): Family-violence shelter and counselling provider in Alberta offering safe housing, trauma counselling, and children's programming. Highly comparable integrated service model.
• Interval House (Hamilton): Ontario-based shelter and counselling provider for women and children fleeing violence. Operates an integrated housing-plus-counselling model closely aligned with Courage Center's offerings.

Broad incumbents

• Women's Shelters Canada: National umbrella organisation representing women's shelters across Canada. Provides policy advocacy and shared infrastructure comparable to what Courage Center accesses within its sector.
• Canadian Women's Foundation: National funder and convener focused on gender-based violence and women's economic participation. Comparable as a major ecosystem player in the domestic-violence funding and advocacy space that Courage Center depends on.
• Salvation Army (Atlantic Canada): Large established charitable organisation operating family shelters and victim support services across Atlantic Canada. Comparable in service breadth but with much larger operational scale and funding base.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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