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Nina’s Place is a sexual assault/domestic violence crisis centre named in memory of Nina de Villiers, the victim of a tragic assault in Burlington, in 1991.Nancy DiPietro says: “We provide specialized health care, police services and agency referrals for men, women and children who have experienced sexual assault and/or domestic violence within the past 72 hours”.
“At Nina’s Place, we provide care for residents of Acton, Burlington, Georgetown, Milton and Oakvill,” adds Nancy DiPietro.
Nina’s Place vision is to create a place of safety and dignity for victims/survivors of sexual assault and/or domestic violence and their children; a place where medical and police reports may be made with sensitivity and in privacy.
Specially-trained nurses are on call 24 hours a day and respond within 45 minutes to any client.
Nina’s Place puts your needs first. Healing begins here.
Hours of operation: Nina’s Place is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Services are provided at no cost.
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Nina’s Place, the Regional Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Care Centre of Halton, located at Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, has introduced a pediatric program to include the care of children who have been sexually abused.
Nina’s Place works collaboratively with Joseph Brant’s department of Pediatrics, Halton Children’s Aid Society, Halton Regional Police and the Crown Attorney’s Office to provide the best care possible by having a child-friendly and child focused setting for medical and forensic exams, interviews, case planning ad counseling.
The program offers:
- a child-friendly atmosphere for child sexual abuse interviews
- medical evaluations
- coordination of investigative legal, medical, and mental health services
- linage with mental health and victim advocacy services
- multi-disciplinary team reviews
- information and referral
- parent/caregiver support
- education and training.
For further information about the Nina’s Place pediatric program, please contact Nancy DiPietro, Manager at 905-632-3737 ext. 5708
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Nancy DiPietro
Inspiration for great acts often comes from a single event. For Nancy DiPietro, that event came on Aug. 12, 2006. While attending the international nurses’ forum on the HIV/AIDS crisis, Nancy DiPietro was stunned to learn that many of the nurses treating HIV/AIDS patients in Africa were infected themselves.
Not content to sit by and do nothing, Nancy DiPietro created Give an Hour, a campaign that calls upon Canada’s registered nurses to support HIV/AIDS-affected nurses in Africa. Nancy DiPietro’s hope is that every nurse who can will pledge the equivalent of one hour of pay each year to the Stephen Lewis Foundation. Since launching the campaign, Nancy DiPietro has received tremendous support from her colleagues and nursing organizations.
Her career experiences gave Nancy DiPietro the knowledge and skills necessary to create this national campaign. Building on work in an intensive care unit, an operating room, a post-anesthetic care unit and in women’s health, Nancy DiPietro joined the McMaster University Medical Centre team in 1993 and became a sexual assault nurse examiner in 1997. As manager of Nina’s Place, the Regional Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Care Centre of Halton, at Joseph Brant Memorial Hospital, Nancy DiPietro say first-hand the how sexual and interpersonal violence affected the lives of women and children.
Last August, Nancy DiPietro joined the staff of Langs Farm Village Association, which operates a community health centre in her hometown of Cambridge. Nancy DiPietro will be the nurse manager of a new satellite centre set to open this spring in the village of Ayr. The centre till provide primary health care, health promotion and community development services using a multidisciplinary team of health providers. In her new position, Nancy DiPietro will be focusing on addressing and raising awareness of the broader determinants of health such as employment, education, environment, isolation and poverty. Nancy DiPietro is excited about having a hand in bringing primary health care to an under-serviced rural community.
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NANCY C. DIPIETRO created Give an Hour, a campaign that calls upon the more than 268,000 registered nurses across Canada to support HIV/AIDS- affected nurses in Africa. Since launching the campaign, Nancy C. DiPietro has received tremendous support from nursing colleagues and organizations. Surrounded by 200 of her peers at the international nurses’ forum on the HIV/AIDS crisis, Nancy DiPietro was stunned to learn that not only were women and children suffering from the rapid spread of HIV/AIDS, but also many of the nurses treating HIV/AIDS patients were infected themselves.
“As nurses in Canada, we have so many resources,” says Nancy DiPietro. “We work in safe buildings with well-trained staff. We have good benefits, including universal health care. We have opportunities to grow and learn….We can relate to nurses in other countries on so many levels. African nurses are women, they ar
e mothers and some of them are ill. I know if I were sick, it would mean so much to me to have the right supports available,” added Nancy DiPietro.
Working within what Nancy DiPietro describes as a “strong team of committed and generous women” has enabled her to find the time to organize her Give an Hour campaign amongst all of her other daily duties. Nancy DiPietro hopes to lead the way for other nurses to give to their African counterparts in order to ease their suffering.
Nancy DiPietro’s career experiences as a nurse gave DiPietro the knowledge and skills necessary to create this meaningful national campaign. Building on work in an intensive care unit, operating room, post-anesthetic care unit and women’s health, Nancy C. DiPietro joined the McMaster University Medical Centre team in 1993 and became a sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) in 1997. Nancy C. DiPietro worked with survivors of sexual assault and collected forensic information.
Nancy DiPietro is all too familiar with the effects that diseases have on patients – socially, physically and emotionally. “Many of the clients I see are vulnerable,” says Nancy DiPietro. “They have been in positions where they have had no control over what happens to them or their bodies. Survival becomes their primary focus, and they do what they have to do to get by. I believe that it is the same for African women and nurses dealing with HIV/AIDS on a daily basis,” added Nancy DiPietro.
Nancy C. DiPietro shares, “It is my hope that every nurse who can donate, does pledge the equivalent of one hour of pay each year to help nurses in Africa infected with HIV/AIDS.”
“Nursing is caring. Knowing that when someone is going through one of the most difficult times of their lives, you are helping to make it more manageable for them. That is the reward of nursing – being part of that moment,” believes Nancy C. DiPietro.
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During the 2006 holiday season, Nancy DiPietro and her family adopted a family and purchased holiday gifts for them. Our Neighbor’s Child is the sponsor of the event and provides the names of families in need of support during the holiday season. The Nancy DiPietro’s shopped together and treated it as a family event, purchasing clothing, toys, winter coats, and gift cards for the needy family.
During the 2007 holiday season, Nancy DiPietro will again volunteer for Our Neighbor’s Child. This year, Nancy DiPietro will act a caller, placing calls to needy families to determine family member needs and wants. Our Neighbor’s Child is in its’ 15th season of providing holiday gifts to less fortunate children in western Fairfax County.
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