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 YWCA Hamilton Celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day June is Indigenous History Month and June 21st is National Indigenous Peoples Day. This month offers us an important opportunity to honour the contributions, traditions, and resilience of Indigenous c... Advocacy Events
YWCA Hamilton This World Refugee Day – We Commend the Stories of Resilience, Determination, and the Power of Community Support World Refugee Day was established by the United Nations in 2001 in recognition of the 50th anniversary of the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees. It is a day to honour and celebrate th... Advocacy Community Immigration & Settlement Services
YWCA Hamilton Celebrating Two Spirit, LGBTQIA+ communities during pride month: How visibility, representation & joy make queer and feminist movements stronger June is Pride Month. Hosting and attending events where Two-Spirit and LGBTQIA+ folks come together to celebrate and are celebrated by allies can foster inclusion, diversity and equality. Now, more th... Advocacy Events Programs & Services
YWCA Hamilton Advancing Reproductive Justice in a Housing Crisis: A collective effort to understand and build solutions In late March, YWCA Hamilton along with LEAF Hamilton , invited community at large to join us for an evening of solutions-based conversations about the intersection of pregnancy and homelessness at an... Advocacy Events
YWCA Hamilton YWCA Hamilton marks Black History Month with a reading challenge As Black History Month comes to a close, we at YWCA Hamilton are proud to share an exciting project we’ve embarked on as a staff team to engage with some remarkable stories. During the month of Februa... Advocacy
YWCA Hamilton YWCA Hamilton advocates for Reproductive Care for unhoused community members at the 10th Women’s Health Days with Greater Hamilton Health Network Last week, February 7th and 8th, Greater Hamilton Health Network (GHHN) held its tenth Women’s Health Days at YWCA Hamilton’s MacNab St. location. Women’s Health Days have been instrumental events in ... Advocacy Community
YWCA Hamilton YWCA Hamilton advocates for funding for women It’s budget season at all three levels of government, and YWCA Hamilton has been working hard advocating for needed investments in women at the municipal, provincial, and federal levels. At the munici... Advocacy Budget Government Relations OAK
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 YWCA Hamilton advocates for more funding for women’s housing on Parliament Hill Today, October 10, people around the world will observe World Homeless Day. This international moment of advocacy focuses on working to prevent and end homelessness, as well as alleviating the sufferi... Advocacy 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
