by Britteny Blackman | Aug 26, 2025 | Advocacy, Blog
We are incredibly proud to share insights from a recent national panel on child care, where our very own Director of Child Care Services, Kristina Lyman, represented YWCA Cambridge and shed light on the vital work being done to shape the future of early learning and...
by Rosalind Gunn | Jul 28, 2025 | Advocacy, Blog, News
As a feminist, multiservice organization dedicated to dismantling gender-based violence, YWCA Cambridge stands in solidarity with EM and all survivors of sexual assault in the wake of the recent Hockey Canada trial and its outcomes. We acknowledge the profound...
by Rosalind Gunn | Jun 9, 2025 | Advocacy, Blog, YWCA Ontario
As organizations committed to supporting and empowering survivors of gender-based and sexual violence, and advocating for systemic change grounded in care, dignity and justice, YWCA Ontario extends our unwavering solidarity to E.M. as she endures the ongoing Hockey...
by Rosalind Gunn | Dec 18, 2024 | Advocacy, Blog
By: Olumide Aganga 35 years ago, several monumental events happened. The year 1989 witnessed the fall of the Berlin wall, marking the beginning of the end of communism in Eastern Europe. It was the year the Soviet Union broke up and the World Wide Web was invented....
by Amy Kitchen | Oct 21, 2024 | Advocacy, Blog
Below is a statement issued by the YWCA Ontario Coalition, consisting of YWCA member associations across the province of Ontario. Safer Drug Use Sites Save Lives: Repeal the closures and recommit to harm reduction. The YWCA Ontario Coalition is deeply concerned by the...
by Amy Kitchen | Sep 12, 2024 | Advocacy, Blog
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 IPV is what advocates have long said and nearly 100...
