YWCA Elm Centre resident upset with drug-using tenants
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http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/09/ywca-elm-centre-resident-upset-with-drug-using-tenants
Friday 6 December 2013
Toronto drug users evicted from harm-reduction YWCA
Toronto Star published a story about the YWCA Toronto.
Read the full story here:
http://www.sunnewsnetwork.ca/sunnews/canada/archives/2013/01/20130127-084351.html
Toronto Star claims YWCA Toronto now offers interest-free loans to help women living with abuse establish themselves in safety.
Information gathered by FIX YWCA and Canada Court Watch and Ontario Coalition for Accountability and a survivor by the name of Jessie McVicar and a number of credible sources including information and testimony from former women residents, children who were residents and former shelter managers, clearly indicate the system gets all this funding from goverment and donations and their using it to protect themselves, and not the families, and they are only protending to help families but in reality they are only exploiting these families and only helping themselves. Is this the same case here? YWCA Toronto staff when you google your own name, find this post, can you be so good as to give us the REAL scoop. Ok? Thanks. YWCA survivors when you google about the YWCA Toronto, find this post, can you tell the world about your experiences with this new program? Thanks.
Read the full story here:
http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/2013/12/05/fund_named_for_montreal_massacre_helps_women_flee_domestic_violence.html
Wednesday 18 September 2013
Thursday 4 July 2013
Habitat Services Toronto boarding home has settled a human rights complaint
Jessica
Larabee has been homeless off and on since aging out of foster care in 2006.
After aging out of foster care in 2006, she moved to Toronto from Sudbury and
directly into a Habitat Services Toronto boarding home for people living in
poverty.
Jessica Larabee has been involved in a human rights complaint against the Toronto Habitat Services boarding home in Toronto, alleging Jessica was assaulted and experienced discrimination and ran away because of abuse and stayed at YWCA Toronto.
“I almost tried to kill myself. I had no family to turn to for support. The YWCA Toronto and the 519 Church Street Community Centre was the only place I could go to for support”.
She alleged that she was abused at
Habitat Services but received support at the YWCA Toronto.
YWCA Toronto provided the support Jessica required.
YWCA Toronto provided the support Jessica required.
Habitat Services and Thomas Tuah denied the allegations, but settled the case at mediation downtown Toronto.
Habitat Services and Thomas Tuah said the staff, and the individual officers who were involved, denied discrimination allegations.
Habitat Services and Thomas Tuah has refused interviews.
Habitat Services agreed to receive
training on human rights and LGBTQ issues.
Kyle Scanlon provided the training from the 519 Church Street Community Centre in the year of 2009.
Kyle Scanlon provided the training from the 519 Church Street Community Centre in the year of 2009.
Jessica claimed damages of $20,000.
What was actually received has not been revealed.
The cases have been settled out of court — but under the
terms of the settlement the amount awarded will remain SECRET.
The case was settled at mediation in the year of 2009.
The case was settled at mediation in the year of 2009.
"If they didn't think they did anything wrong they would not have agreed to a settlement. We live in a corporate kind of society where money does speak — and people don't like to pay people off for things they did right. So if they [Toronto Habitat Services] did anything right we wouldn't be here talking today," said Larabee.
Saturday 29 June 2013
Wednesday 26 June 2013
YWCA SUDBURY CHANGES TRANSGNEDER POLICY
On December 29, 2011, Jessica Larabee filed a human rights complaint alleging that the YWCA Sudbury discriminated against her.
Jessica Larabee has decided to drop the human rights complaint against the YWCA Sudbury.
Jessica Larabee said she is confident she would win, but she doesn't want taxpayers to foot the bill for a victory at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
She says Her first priority was for the YWCA Sudbury to change its policy and her second priority was to receive financial compensation for pain and suffering and general damages.
Jessica Larabee said that the YWCA Sudbury has changed the policy and is currently allowing transgender people into the shelter. Jessica said she believes she achieved her goal.
“I hope this shelter will be a model for how things should be,” Larabee said.
Jessica Larabee believes it would take several years to prevail, and she doesn't think it's fair for her lawyer to keep working on the case pro bono.
Instead of fighting over financial compensation requests, Jessica Larabee said she wants to focus on the future and other social advocacy goals.
IMPORTANT YWCA SUDBURY POLICY:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
On December 29, 2011, Jessica Larabee filed a human rights complaint alleging that the YWCA Sudbury discriminated against her.
Jessica Larabee has decided to drop the human rights complaint against the YWCA Sudbury.
Jessica Larabee said she is confident she would win, but she doesn't want taxpayers to foot the bill for a victory at the Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario.
She says Her first priority was for the YWCA Sudbury to change its policy and her second priority was to receive financial compensation for pain and suffering and general damages.
Jessica Larabee said that the YWCA Sudbury has changed the policy and is currently allowing transgender people into the shelter. Jessica said she believes she achieved her goal.
“I hope this shelter will be a model for how things should be,” Larabee said.
Jessica Larabee believes it would take several years to prevail, and she doesn't think it's fair for her lawyer to keep working on the case pro bono.
Instead of fighting over financial compensation requests, Jessica Larabee said she wants to focus on the future and other social advocacy goals.
IMPORTANT YWCA SUDBURY POLICY:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/
Please read ANOTHER email I received from a transgender person, Rita O'link, regarding the YWCA Sudbury discriminating against transgender people.
A member of the LGBTQ community in Sudbury sent this email to the YWCA Sudbury.
Please click the screen shot below to be able to more
easily read the email:
Sunday 23 June 2013
Rebuttal:
Monday, March 2, 2004 In rebuttal to the article “The Good Samaritan Inn Sets The Record Straight”.
To call people’s questions and concerns about a publicly supported place “evil” is most pretentious. It is not evil to confront an issue. What is evil is when good people know of evil, and do nothing about it.
If a meeting inviting the public to join their Board of Directors was publicized in the Daily Press it wasn’t as noticeable as the obvious aforementioned article written by the Secretary of The Good Samaritan Inn Donald Bruneau. Mr. Bruneau says it hurts him deeply to hear false rumors against the Inn. Well Mr. Bruneau, it hurts our children and families deeply having to worry about leaving our windows open anymore and being safe in our own homes. It hurts us deeply to have our neighborhood imposed upon by dropping off parolees and bringing a convicted rapist here to take up permanent residence in the homeless shelter. You don’t mention that in your “Setting The Record Straight” statement. You don’t mention a lot of things the public has the right to know. Like the homeless people can't even find the place because it is not "centrally located" Exactly when did this particular Board of Directors unite? Answer: February 2004. Why? Because of a sought after $60.000.00 Trillium grant. No one is attacking the “Homeless”. On the contrary, we want to help the poor and homeless. However this “homeless shelter” encourages dependence rather than encouraging independent living. It advertises for permanent residents and for senior citizens at the rate of up to $550.00 per month, room and board, in the Timmins Times. Founder/President of The Good Samaritan Inn Rose Nadeau advertises that women and children of any age are welcome there. She does so aware that a convicted rapist and other offenders of any crime are sharing the common bathrooms and living areas. It does not mention that boarders, parolees, Rose, her mother, and her brother are all living in the homeless shelter eating the food and taking up the space meant for the homeless. This is exactly why Jesus was born in a manger, “For there was no room at the Inn”. Rose Nadeau, in her letter to the Timmins Daily Press editor, "The Maple Leaf could serve as a Shelter" states her wants clearly. No one was willing to sell her real estate in Timmins because they did not want the shelter in their neighborhoods. Instead of the city donating or supporting the "Homeless Shelter" by moving it into one of the dozens of empty buildings in Timmins, three vehicles were donated to transport the homeless from Timmins to The Good Samaritan Inn in South Porcupine. We are 5,000 people in South Porcupine; Timmins has 50,000 with a much larger downtown core. What is evil sir is Timmins denying the homeless affordable housing or a homeless shelter in Timmins. So don't be calling it "Timmins’ first homeless shelter”. Timmins rejected the shelter by their actions. Ostracize yourselves, not the people of South Porcupine who have real concerns knowing that convicted rapists and other offenders are living in the neighborhood. The Inn must be located where it would be most accessible to the majority of homeless and poor. It makes more sense to pick up the rare homeless people from South Porcupine and transport them to Timmins to a shelter rather than transporting the many more Timmins homeless here. Just one round trip a day to Timmins at a conservative cost of $5.00 for gas per round trip equals $1,825.00 per year, whereas a liberal estimate of one round trip per week to South Porcupine from Timmins would run $260.00 per year. $1,825.00 is ¼ of the Inns $80.000.00 mortgage payment. The Inn has three donated vehicles. If each of the three vehicles makes one round trip to Timmins and back per day, (I'm sure they are used more) a conservative annual gas total would run $5,475.00, which comes to 2/3’s of the Inn's mortgage payment. Is the Good Samaritan Inn a Homeless Shelter or a Tax Shelter? Quoted from “The Good Samaritan Inn Sets the Record Straight” is the intended scolding in the above article. "Come my children, listen to me. I will teach you to fear Yahweh. Who among you delights in life, longs for a time to enjoy prosperity? Guard your tongue from evil, your lips from any breath of deceit. Turn away from evil and do good. Seek peace and pursue it." Psalms: 34-12-14 Mr. Bruneau goes on to warn us about what serious evils and harm can be done by the words of others and that we can curse or bless others with our mouths and will be judged accordingly by God. So be it Mr. Bruneau, you chose the quote. We who have invested our lives and money and are raising our families in South Porcupine, we who have roots and loved ones here, we who watch each other’s backs, neighbor for neighbor so we can sleep and live in peace, we who choose to live here in this "out of the way area" for our children’s and senior’s safety. We are the taxpayers , we are the voters, we too are children of God who are working hard to secure our futures. Many people are just a cheque away from being homeless, barely holding things together, and have been robbed of the delights in life and can no longer look forward to prosperity which Mr. Bruneau spoke of in his article, due to the present location of The Good Samaritan Inn. It is the "drop off centre" for parolees and home to known sex offenders, which knocks off no less than $10,000.00 in salability and property value, no matter how much we upgrade, no matter how many gold mines open. Who would want to bring their family to our neighborhood knowing who we are sharing our sidewalks and rental accommodations with? What you heard sir was the truth, there is more and it gets worse.
Mr. Bruneau, if you support the Rose Nadeau and her Good Samaritan Inn so much let them move next to your schools and home.
Yours Truly, Mary Theresa Kristie Concerned mother, grandmother, friend and home owner in South Porcupine. |
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