A Video Message of Gratitude for Your Kindness in 2024 Dear friends, As we mark the winter solstice and celebrate the holiday season, it’s a good time to take a moment of quiet reflection on the year that was. I want to recognize you and your commitment to supporting our work to help women and …
Breaking the Silence of Abuse: Lynn’s Story When I was four years old, I fell on a broken glass bottle. I ended up with a ton of stitches on my face. That was a long time ago, and they’ve all healed. Nobody notices the scars now except me. But there’s one little spot that still …
Wrapped In Courage: Threads of Action to End Gender-Based Violence This November during Woman Abuse Prevention Month, YWCA Peterborough Haliburton is calling on all community members to take action to respond to high rates of femicide and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV). Across Ontario, communities are coming together to support this year’s Wrapped in …
Statement by YWCA Ontario on the Closure of Critical Safer Drug Use Sites Across the Province The YWCA Ontario Coalition is deeply concerned by the provincial government’s decision to close Consumption and Treatment Service (CTS) Sites and its refusal to permit new programs to open. Supervised consumption and treatment services/sites play a critical role in …
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The Gratitude Edition of our Newsletter is Here Our latest Newsletter for Fall 2024 has arrived. Our Fall Newsletter is always a special Gratitude Edition dedicated to our donors and community supporters, without whom our work would not be possible. Thank you to each and every one of you. Click here to read a digital …
YWCA Ontario Submits Recommendations on Bill 173 On April 10, 2024. the Government of Ontario carried Bill 173: Intimate Partner Violence Epidemic Act through a second reading, bringing us one critical step closer to having the province recognize that gender-based violence is what advocates have long said and nearly 100 municipalities have affirmed with their own declarations: …
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Join Us to Take Back The Night! The YWCA will be taking part in Take Back The Night in both Peterborough and Haliburton for the second year! Our 2024 theme is “Shatter The Silence”. Started in the 1970s, Take Back The Night is one of the world’s oldest movements to stand against sexual violence, and …
YWCA Peterborough Haliburton’s most popular community event, Walk A Mile In Their Shoes, returned in June 2024 after a four-year hiatus. The event was a huge success, thanks to the amazing support of our generous community members. Among the top fundraisers for this year’s event were a group of participants on “Team Scotia” from Scotiabank …
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When a woman first makes a crisis call to the YWCA, she is at one of the lowest moments of her life. Paralyzed with fear and overwhelmed by anxiety. No control over her situation. The basic needs of herself and her children not being met. I’ve been there. And I know first-hand how much courage …
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Gender-based violence has been a frequent topic in local news this week in Peterborough, after at least two separate incidents were categorized as intimate partner violence. YWCA Peterborough Haliburton executive director, Kim Dolan, spoke to Global News on July 8 as part of their segment on the rise in domestic violence incidents and calls for …
