What’s Happening @ WCWRC
Solutions to Complex Challenges
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...
Program Highlight: Street Outreach
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...
Bonnie & Colette’s Story
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...
Women of Distinction
WCWRC was built and is sustained by remarkable women. As a way to honour their contributions, every year we present the Women of Distinction awards, which recognize women who have gone above and beyond expectations in their contributions and commitment to the...
Message from our Executive Director & Board Chair
What a year this last one has been! When we set the course for 2020/21, none of us knew that we would be in the grips of a global pandemic that would create turmoil for all of us, but most significantly for the community that we work with. COVID-19 required us to act...
WCWRC 2020/2021 Annual Report
Audited Financial Statements for 2020/2021
Unsurprisingly, 2020-2021 was an unusual year for funding. In addition to our regular funding, WCWRC received over $440,000 specific to supporting community through COVID-19. End Homelessness Winnipeg, Winnipeg Foundation and United Way in particular stepped up...
Join us for our AGM: Sept 15!
Join us for the West Central Women’s Resource Centre Virtual Annual General Meeting on September 15th from 4-6pm on Zoom. This year, we celebrate 20 years since we started as a Centre. It's always a highly-anticipated, moving, and community-building event not to be...
TRC Commitments 2021 Report
West Central Women’s Resource Centre is committed to being an active partner in reconciliation between settlers and Indigenous people. Hundreds of years of colonization and destructive policies such as residential schools, the Sixties Scoop, and the child welfare...
Joint Statement on Forced Evictions at Toronto Encampments
July 23, 2021 Joint Statement on Forced Evictions at Toronto Encampments As community members and organizations working to prevent and end homelessness in Winnipeg, we are saddened and distressed by events in Toronto this week, during which people have been forcibly...
Reconciliation Month
This year is the 5th July Reconciliation Month at WCWRC. 2017 marked the 150th birthday of the country we call Canada, here on Turtle Island. In light of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Final Report and the discrimination and racism that the women we support...
Canada Must Do Better
Canada Day 2021 This year, we choose to acknowledge Canada Day as a day to reflect and learn more about Indigenous history and culture. We must face the truth about our country's history and honour the children, their families, and the survivors of residential...