Fix YWCA
The subject of YWCA is not often in the media, and when it is, it is usually to print puff pieces or stories planted by the YWCA itself. Here we have carefully selected those media sources that report seriously on the subject of the YWCA.
Saturday 14 June 2014
Friday 6 December 2013
YWCA Elm Centre resident upset with drug-using tenants
Read Full Story Here:
http://www.torontosun.com/2012/07/09/ywca-elm-centre-resident-upset-with-drug-using-tenants
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
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.
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