by Rosalind Gunn | Apr 12, 2024 | Blog, News
A Week at the 68th United Nations Commission on the Status of Women Last month, YWCA Cambridge Director of Communications and Advocacy, Roz Gunn, was among the YWCA Canada delegation to the 68th Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW 68) at the United Nations in New...
by Rosalind Gunn | Apr 12, 2024 | Advocacy, Blog, News
What happened?On April 10, 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...
by Rosalind Gunn | Apr 12, 2024 | Advocacy, Blog, News
YWCA’s Jen Gordon represents co-creators during important council decision to move forward with the Plan to End Chronic Homelessness On April 9, Regional Council endorsed the Plan to End Chronic Homelessness, a co-created plan for transformative systems...
by Rosalind Gunn | Feb 20, 2024 | Advocacy, Blog, News
A Behind-the-Curtain Look at how YWCA Cambridge is Working to Establish a Women’s Emergency Homelessness Shelter in Cambridge Did you hear that YWCA Cambridge is on a mission to address women’s homelessness (visible and hidden) in Cambridge? We’ve been busy working on...
by Rosalind Gunn | Nov 21, 2023 | Blog, News, YWCA Ontario
YWCA Ontario, a coalition of 10 YWCAs across the province, is pleased to see two new initiatives that will impact the safety, well-being, and economic success of women and families: Ontario signing on to the National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence, and a...
by Rosalind Gunn | Nov 20, 2023 | Blog, News
This past October, YWCA Cambridge turned 75. That’s 75 years of providing programs and services that respond to the changing needs of women and girls in our community. That’s 75 years of working to move the needle on gender equity through advocacy, coalition-building,...
