Police work with Halton Women's Place to gather clothing so others can dress for success.

By Staff

June 2, 2016

BURLINGTON, ON

The Halton Regional Police Service, in conjunction with Halton Women’s Place report a very successful “Dress for Success” Campaign.

Last April members of the Halton Regional Police Domestic Violence Investigative Unit launched a clothing drive to gather new and gently used professional attire to donate to Halton Women’s Place. The goal was provide clients of the shelter with attire suitable to allow the women to feel confident and to thrive in a professional environment.

The campaign concluded May 31 and was incredibly successful with over 122 large size bags of new and gently used items donated.

Carm Bozzo, Development Manager at Halton Women’s Place said: “Halton Women’s Place is so very grateful for the Halton Regional Police Services’ campaign of collecting clothing and accessories for the month of May for our clients. The Domestic Violence Unit has worked so hard and did a fabulous job with this campaign. We were happily overwhelmed with the generosity of this community. Our clients were also very overwhelmed and so grateful for the incredible items that they received. As well, we are always happy to share our excess donations to organizations like Compassion Society and therefore more and more individuals are helped”.

Detective Donna Whittaker from the Domestic Violence Investigative Unit proposed and managed the clothing drive. She noted that the campaign was a huge success and a positive experience for her and members of the unit. “Halton is an amazing community full of kind, generous people and the response to this campaign has been absolutely exceptional. We are all so appreciative of the community’s generosity and support of this worthwhile initiative. I am confident the donations received from this campaign will have a positive impact on many, many women who can now “Dress for Success”. Thank you to everyone who donated or were otherwise involved in this campaign. “