YWCA Hamilton
Providing programs and services for women and girls.
Quick EscapeAugust 10th is Prisoners’ Justice Day – a national day of solidarity, advocacy and remembrance that honours people who have […]
Quick EscapeMichele Markowski, Manager of Harm Reduction and Low-Barrier Services, and Colleen Allain, Carole Anne’s Place Supervisor, recently presented at the […]
Quick EscapeEvery year, from November 25 to December 10, we unite for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. This […]
Quick EscapeEngaging Community in YWCA Hamilton’s Gender-Based Safety Audit In Fall 2023, YWCA Hamilton advocated for the City to fund a […]
Quick EscapeDear YWCA Hamilton supporters, I’m so pleased to send you our 2023-24 Impact Report! In our last fiscal year, we [...]
Quick EscapeHelp Women and Children Rebuild their Lives after Violence this September! Thank you to RONA+ Hamilton N.E for raising $11,000 [...]
Quick EscapeOn December 6, 1989, 14 women in an engineering class at the École Polytechnique de Montréal were separated from their […]
Quick EscapeThis Sunday, YWCA Hamilton CEO Medora Uppal shared the following remarks focused on housing, hope, and ending gender-based violence as […]
Quick EscapeThis week, YWCA Hamilton successfully advocated for the City of Hamilton to fund a Gender-based safety audit. This $100,000 project […]
Quick EscapeYWCA Hamilton’s Director of Housing and Gender-Based violence services Amy Deschamps was one of the speakers at a recent press conference held to declare Intimate Partner Violence an epidemic in Hamilton. Here are her reflections of the event.
Not. One More.
These were the words chanted at aa press conference held last week by the Women Abuse Working Group. We gathered to draw attention to the staggering rates of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and Femicides across the Province, rates disproportionately impacting Indigenous Women, 2S-LGBTQIA+, sex workers and racialized individuals. We gathered to do what the province of Ontario did not: to declare that Intimate Partner and Gender Based Violence IS an epidemic, and to call upon the municipality of Hamilton to do the same.