YWCA Hamilton Prisoners’ Justice Day: Standing in Solidarity and Expanding Support for Justice-Involved Women and Gender-Diverse People August 10th is Prisoners’ Justice Day – a national day of solidarity, advocacy and remembrance that honours people who have died while incarcerated and raises awareness of the systemic injustices face... Gender-Based Violence Justice Support Services
YWCA Hamilton Empowering Young Leaders at YWCA Hamilton: A Journey to the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness Conference Michele Markowski, Manager of Harm Reduction and Low-Barrier Services, and Colleen Allain, Carole Anne’s Place Supervisor, recently presented at the Canadian Alliance to End Homelessness (CAEH) confer... Advocacy Community Gender-Based Violence Programs & Services
YWCA Hamilton 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Every year, from November 25 to December 10, we unite for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence . This international campaign begins on the Day for the Elimination of Violence Against ... Advocacy Gender-Based Violence
YWCA Hamilton YWCA Hamilton’s Gender-Based Safety Audit Engaging Community in YWCA Hamilton’s Gender-Based Safety Audit In Fall 2023, YWCA Hamilton advocated for the City to fund a Gender-Based Safety Audit (GBSA) to investigate the ways gender affects the... Advocacy Community Gender-Based Violence
YWCA Hamilton YOU Power YWCA Hamilton – Read Our Impact Report 2023-24! Dear YWCA Hamilton supporters, I’m so pleased to send you our 2023-24 Impact Report! In our last fiscal year, we made meaningful, tangible change in our community, uplifting and empowering women, girl... Advocacy Community Economic Empowerment Employment & Skills Development Gender-Based Violence Health and Wellness Immigration & Settlement Services Impact Report OAK Programs & Services
YWCA Hamilton Rona+ Hamilton N.E. & the Rona Foundation’s Home Sweet Home Helping to Rebuild Lives in September 2024 Help Women and Children Rebuild their Lives after Violence this September! Thank you to RONA+ Hamilton N.E for raising $11,000 in support for families fleeing violence at YWCA Hamilton’s Phoenix Place... Community Events Gender-Based Violence Housing and Shelter Putman Family YWCA
YWCA Hamilton 34 years after the École Polytechnique shooting, women still fight for equality in the workplace On December 6, 1989, 14 women in an engineering class at the École Polytechnique de Montréal were separated from their male classmates and killed, because they were women training to work in a male do... Advocacy Gender-Based Violence
YWCA Hamilton CEO Medora Uppal shares remarks on National Housing Day This Sunday, YWCA Hamilton CEO Medora Uppal shared the following remarks focused on housing, hope, and ending gender-based violence as the sermon at the First Unitarian Church in Hamilton. A full reco... Advocacy Gender-Based Violence Housing and Shelter OAK
YWCA Hamilton WCA Hamilton to lead the city’s gender-based safety audit This week, YWCA Hamilton successfully advocated for the City of Hamilton to fund a Gender-based safety audit. This $100,000 project will be led by YWCA in collaboration with other community partners w... Advocacy Gender-Based Violence
YWCA Hamilton YWCA Hamilton joins the call to declare Intimate and Gender-Based Violence an Epidemic YWCA Hamilton joins the call to declare Intimate and Gender-Based Violence an Epidemic YWCA Hamilton’s Director of Housing and Gender-Based violence services Amy Deschamps was one of the speakers at a... Advocacy Gender-Based Violence
YWCA Hamilton YWCA Hamilton marks Victims and Survivors of Crime Week YWCA Hamilton marks Victims and Survivors of Crime Week Everyone deserves to feel safe in their community, workplace, neighbourhood, and home. But for many – particularly women, Indigenous and raciali... Advocacy Gender-Based Violence
YWCA Hamilton YWCA Ontario Responds to the 2023 Provincial Budget On March 23, 2023, the Ontario government released its 2023 budget. The YWCA Ontario Coalition, which includes YWCA Hamilton, has issued the following analysis: One of the two themes of this year’s pr... Advocacy Child Care Economic Empowerment Gender-Based Violence Housing and Shelter
