WOD Past Nominees 2018

YWCA Hamilton is proud to support speqtrum, a youth-founded and youth-focused skill-sharing and community building program for Two Spirit and [...]

TYPE: In-person
TIME COMMITMENT: 2-4 hours/week; 1-2 shifts/month; between 9 AM to 9 PM; flexible work schedule

The YWCA Hamilton Seniors Call & Connect Volunteer provides assistance to the (Seniors) Active Living Centre 55+ team, inclusive of: providing telephone calls to seniors, engaging in social discussions, offering resources and connections to community programs, and providing updates on current & upcoming YWCA programming for the MacNab/Putman Family YWCA facility

TYPE: In-person
TIME COMMITMENT: 1-6 hours/week; 1-2 shifts/month; between 9 AM to 9 PM; flexible work schedule

Front Desk Volunteer, while providing assistance to the Front Desk team, will welcome clients, volunteers, staff, and community members at the MacNab and Putman Family YWCA facilities.

TYPE: In-person
TIME COMMITMENT: Minimum of Six (6) month commitment

The Imagine Day Program Volunteer will provide supports to adults diagnosed with developmental disabilities, dual diagnosis and may display challenging behaviors. This volunteer will assist in delivery of direct and indirect support services with a focus on therapeutic recreation, inclusion and community integration as assigned by the Program Supervisor – Community Participation or designate

TYPE: Hybrid, both virtual and in-person opportunities exist
TIME COMMITMENT: 2 to 3 hours per week, plus travel time for in-home visits

YWCA Good Beginnings is a volunteer assistance program available for mothers in Hamilton and the surrounding area with infants younger than six months of age. The program involves weekly in-home visits from a trained volunteer

TYPE: Hybrid, both virtual and in-person opportunities exist
TIME COMMITMENT: Between 1 to 4 visits Monthly; each visit is 2 to 3 hours
TERMS OF POSITION: Six (6) month commitment

YWCA Hamilton Mother’s Support Services is looking for individuals to Canada to apply to provide volunteer assistance for newcomer mothers in the Hamilton and the surrounding area. The Mother’s Support Group volunteer will provide support to new mothers with infants younger than twelve months of age.

TYPE: In-person
TIME COMMITMENT: 1-2 shifts/week; Monday through Friday between 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, flexible work schedule
TERMS OF POSITION: Six (6) month commitment

The YWCA Hamilton Donation Processing Volunteer will help staff with welcoming and assisting donors, receiving and tagging incoming donations, sorting donations into designated areas/bins, keeping an accurate in-kind donation log up-to-date, and replenish as needed.

From the moment you meet her, Marilyn Hill has a story to tell. On the coffee table in her home, […]

At YWCA Hamilton, we see the realities of homelessness every day – but there are still many misconceptions and stereotypes [...]

It’s been a week of celebration and cheer at YWCA Hamilton as our staff came together to celebrate the season [...]

Three years ago, Emma Farr started a program that changed her life. “I was having a really hard time in [...]

YWCA Hamilton’s brand-new building is taking shape on Ottawa Street – and members of the community say they’re eager to [...]

We asked. You delivered. When the Covid-19 Pandemic hit Hamilton, Steve Park was one of the many Hamiltonians who knew [...]

We are entering our seventh week of pandemic measures and many of us might be feeling a bit restless, patiently […]

Yesterday we learned that a client in one of our facilities has tested positive for COVID-19. The client who has […]

Last night, I, like many of you, scrolled through story after story that analyzed, examined, made predictions and reported on […]

We are now three weeks into the COVID-19 crisis and while we try to make sense of rapidly-evolving developments, the [...]

YWCA Hamilton's Response to COVID-19   Dear Friends, As we keep saying, this has been an unprecedented week. And every [...]

This has been an unprecedented week as the situation with COVID-19 evolves. Hamilton Public Health and leading health authorities world-wide [...]

To all YWCA Hamilton members, clients and visitors, We understand and share in your concern around the risks associated with [...]

The newly-reimagined Ottawa Street YWCA will be named The Putman Family YWCA, thanks to a $1 million donation from Hamilton’s […]

YWCA Hamilton wishes you all a holiday season filled with warmth, peace and happiness. Our holiday hours are: December 24: [...]

Cathy hunkered down inside an alcove near the GO station on Hunter Street where she and her partner Lindsey would [...]

Milli Gould touched a well-manicured hand to her face and leaned in to listen to Annah Yassin’s story. It was [...]

On a crisp fall evening in late 2018, then-manager of Transitional Housing Violetta Nikolskaya stood before a room of women [...]

Josie Rudderham was heading back to work after the birth of her first child when she was told her job [...]

YWCA Hamilton will close today at 4pm due to inclement weather. However, the MacNab Street Child Care Centre will remain […]

It’s definitely been a wild winter! YWCA Hamilton MacNab Street is closed and all non-essential YWCA Hamilton programming is cancelled […]

Nancy Oomen stands in the middle of her cheerily-decorated bedroom and holds up an Anne of Green Gables figurine. It’s [...]

The weather outside is still dreadful on Day 2 of this freezing rain storm. YWCA Hamilton remains closed today and [...]

For more than three decades, Kathy Hayes had a front row seat on the lives of students. As the Registrar [...]

You've asked and we listened! What will the new Ottawa Street YWCA look like? Will it be a building we’ll [...]

Earlier today, the federal government announced an investment in the Hamilton community by committing more than $10.08 million to the [...]

The wait is finally over! The backhoes are humming, the earth is churning. Last week we put metal to the [...]

Lucia Martinez stood in the lobby of the YWCA Hamilton, clutching the remains of her former life in her hands. [...]

As a girl growing up in Benghazi, Libya, Faiza Elbarghathi had one dream ­– to learn how to swim. Because [...]

You can help families feel safe. You can provide a home. You can provide a future. Last Christmas, my mom [...]

Turning Point Giving Circle funding Every year, members of the Turning Point Giving Circle democratically vote as a collective group […]

Two years ago, Neanette Atanas rolled over in a Stretch Sweat and Unwind yoga class and her life went sideways. [...]

“It was important to me as a business owner to have an ongoing affiliation with a charity or non-profit, to [...]

“The concept of Turning Point is so elegantly simple - a community of women supporting and cheering other women. It [...]