Luke's Place
Luke's Place supports abused women and their children throughout the family law process and provides them and the Durham
community with specialized resources and information about family law and woman abuse.  Luke's Place is named in memory of Luke,
a 3 ½ year old boy who, on his first unsupervised access visit in August of 1997 in Durham Region, was brutally murdered by his
father. This unsupervised access was allowed by the court process despite pleas from the child's mother to permit supervised access
only.  Watch this video for more information about Luke's Place:  watch video
Luke's Place recognized the need for a safe place for mother's to drop off their kids while they utilized the services.  For
this reason, Luke's Place has created a brand new children's centre for kids ages 2-12.

The Better Day Alliance Foundation donated a huge pile of brand new, name brand, kids toys to this endeavour!  
Adam Wiseman, Executive Director of
the BDAF, poses with Tanya from
Luke's Place along with the donation.  
Tanya gave the executive team from
the BDAF an inspirational tour of the
organization and if you click on this
picture and look beside her left hand
you will see a small picture of Luke;
the young boy the centre was named
in memory of.