by West Central Women's Resource Centre | Oct 6, 2021 | Advocacy & Awareness, Centre Updates, Employment Opportunities
Quick Tips for Employment is a series of videos we launched in August on our YouTube channel. These “Quick Tips” videos were created by our wonderful volunteer Paula and offer great insight into the employment process. Paula goes through the job search...
by West Central Women's Resource Centre | Sep 24, 2021 | Annual General Meeting, Centre Updates, Community Updates
When Alex first connected with the Centre in 2016, she was involved in an abusive relationship exacerbating her mental health struggles. She described her first experience spending time here as both awkward and comfortable, “I came in, grabbed some coffee, sat there...
by West Central Women's Resource Centre | Sep 23, 2021 | Annual General Meeting, Centre Updates
My name is Jolene Wilson; the community calls me Jojo. My spirit names are Misko Migizi kwe, Giimiwan Googookoo (Red Eagle Woman, Raining Owl), and I am from the Wolf Clan. I was very lost for 15 years: I lived on the street, homeless and addicted, estranged from my...
by West Central Women's Resource Centre | Sep 22, 2021 | Annual General Meeting, Centre Updates, Community Updates
Warming Centre In winter 2020/21, WCWRC partnered with Spence Neighbourhood Association (SNA) to open a low-barrier, daytime Warming Centre to serve the homeless and food-insecure members of our West End Community. Community members had access to Magnus Eliason...
by West Central Women's Resource Centre | Sep 21, 2021 | Advocacy & Awareness, Annual General Meeting, Centre Updates, Community Updates
The COVID-19 pandemic shone a light on important service gaps in our community. One of those gaps is serving women who cannot come to get food, hygiene, and other basic needs at our front door. COVID made it much more difficult for women to come to us, so we...
by West Central Women's Resource Centre | Sep 20, 2021 | Advocacy & Awareness, Annual General Meeting, Community Updates
Bonnie and Colette both had good jobs and never imagined they would be homeless. Then Colette got sick and they were illegally evicted from their apartment right before Christmas 2020. “We pretty much lost absolutely everything we had,” said Bonnie. “All of a sudden...
