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Status of Women committee  Thank you. South Shore Transition House Association—or Harbour House—is a 15-bed shelter that covers Lunenburg and Queens counties in Nova Scotia. We provide shelter for women and children, supporting high-risk protocols, emergency protection order application support, crisis an

November 5th, 2018Committee meeting

Jennifer Gagnon

Status of Women committee  Okay, sorry. The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation will give up to 40% for repairs, renovations or new capital investments, but for an organization that barely makes it out of a deficit, creating and finding a 60% contribution becomes basically impossible. Fundraising such

November 5th, 2018Committee meeting

Jennifer Gagnon

Status of Women committee  We have one child and youth outreach worker. Her position is split between getting out in the community, doing girls groups and presentations, and also doing in-house, which greatly limits her time. We've had a major influx of children who are in-house. This is a really significa

November 5th, 2018Committee meeting

Jennifer Gagnon

Status of Women committee  I think 80% would be appropriate. We would be able to fundraise the 20%, for sure.

November 5th, 2018Committee meeting

Jennifer Gagnon

Status of Women committee  Yes. I can honestly say that trauma is not fixed by a mortgage. Trauma takes time. Trauma takes care. Trauma takes people who understand. It is not simply taking on a mortgage. It really isn't. We do a lot more to help a woman and her family go through the healing process and ge

November 5th, 2018Committee meeting

Jennifer Gagnon

Status of Women committee  We are learning. We have experienced, at Harbour House or South Shore Transition House, several Syrian refugee families that have come in. In our area, we don't have access to halal foods, so I have to send somebody to Halifax to purchase the food, which is very difficult. We don

November 5th, 2018Committee meeting

Jennifer Gagnon

Status of Women committee  Yes, I've definitely heard of it. The proposal we put in to Status of Women Canada was to engage men and boys. It's a big area. Gender-based violence is not a women-based issue; it's a people issue. We need to start looking and teaching differently.

November 5th, 2018Committee meeting

Jennifer Gagnon