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helping women rebuild Sponsorship Package supportbettyhouse.com 4 Table of Contents It’s Time to Invest in Helping Women Rebuild ....................6 Who We Are ...............................................8 What is Transitional Housing? .................................9 helping women rebuild Betty House Programs & Services .............................9 Why the Need and Demand ................................10 Why Women Can’t Afford Housing ...........................11 What About the Building? ..................................14 It’s Time To Make it Happen! ................................15 Meet Our Team! ..........................................15 We Need Your Support .....................................16 In-Kind Donations: Goods or Services .........................16 Building Speciﬁc Sponsorship ................................17 Sponsor Recognition and Rewards Package ..................18 5 It’s Time To Invest in Helping Women Rebuild The need for transitional housing for women and children has reached a critical point and your help is needed! We invite you to sponsor the Betty House, a transitional home for women and women with children. 6 Currently, over 150 women and children are waiting for adequate housing. Currently, over 150 women and children House (Better Environment To Transition are waiting for adequate housing. As they in Yellowknife) is a transitional home that WE NEED YOU! wait, they often find themselves staying will improve living conditions for many The realization of the Betty long-term in emergency shelters that aren’t homeless, and at risk of homelessness House is dependent upon the continued involvement, designed for that purpose. For some, this individuals, and create an environment dedication and funding is due to the lack of affordable housing, that will assist them to maintain support of the many poverty or mental illness. Many others stable lifestyles. individuals, agencies, are simply not able to obtain a stable community organizations Only through collaboration among those environment that will allow them to deal and corporations, the concerned with services and funding can private sector and all with their situations or escape unhealthy Yellowknife, as a community, be in a levels of government, for its living arrangements. Shelters, such as the position to address homelessness issues. success and commitment to Centre for Northern Families and Alison alleviating homelessness in Monies have been allocated from the McAteer House are already full, and there our community. Yellowknife Homelessness Coalition’s is nowhere else to go. Homelessness Partnering Strategy (federal) This document provides the background and further Studies show that if people are able to find funding in the amount of $935,000 for details on the Betty House adequate housing, they are better able to the purchase of the multiple vacant lots transitional home. We focus on obtaining the support and skill on which to build. Additional funds have encourage your perusal of development they need to confidently been raised, such as the $2.3M contribution this proposal in hopes there move out into the community, and provide from our major corporate sponsor is sufficient information for you to determine if your shelter for themselves and their children. NWT Housing Corporation, but we support or contribution can still require $1.1M for our $5.2 million That’s why the Yellowknife Homelessness assist our community to dollar project. The Yellowknife meet this identified need Coalition and its partners are working and make a meaningful hard to provide a safe and affordable place Homelessness Coalition now needs to expand partnerships with both the public difference in many women where women and children can rebuild and children’s lives! their lives. The soon to be built Betty and the private sector. 7 Our Vision A community where nobody is homeless or marginalized. Who We Are The Yellowknife Homelessness Two transitional projects: a duplex Coalition was formed to address in N’dilo and a duplex in Dettah, issues of homelessness in the North. operated by the Yellowknives Dene The Coalition membership includes First Nations. partners from the Federal, Territorial, An 8-plex building operated by the Municipal and Aboriginal governments, North Slave Housing Corporation. faith groups, women’s organizations, youth groups, and shelter and service Down-payment assistance for the providers. purchase of a home for adults with disabilities for the YWCA, as well The City of Yellowknife, by agreement as a home for persons in recovery with the federal government, is the from addiction for Aurora Oxford community entity that receives Foundation funding by the federal government’s Homelessness Partnering Strategy (HPS), The purchase of a 3 bedroom and acts on behalf of the Yellowknife transitional home for single women Homelessness Coalition as coalition for the Centre for Northern Families. members work toward realizing its The Bailey House men’s 32 unit Community Plan on Homelessness. transitional home operated by The The current Community Plan for Salvation Army. Yellowknife identifies the priority for the The current HPS Contribution Coalition: to increase the number of Agreement with the City exists for transitional and supportive housing the years 2011-2014. The Coalition is units targeted to women and women now embarking upon filling the gaps with children. along the continuum for our targeted The Coalition has celebrated several population, women and women successful projects in the past: with children. 8 What is Transitional Housing? Transitional housing allows a person to successfully “transition” into private/market housing. Several elements deﬁne transitional housing: the length of time a person stays in the housing option (generally three years or less), the existence of supports, and programming designed to help people overcome barriers, develop skills and attain the stability required for the successful transition to permanent or market housing. Some transitional housing currently exists in Yellowknife: YWCA Rockhill Apartments The Bailey House provides 5 emergency units and 32 housing units for men 29 housing units for families The Betty House is intended to be a multi-storey apartment with bed-sit units for single women, Betty House and two and three bedroom units for women with children. There will also be laundry facilities, programming space, offices, security, common kitchens, and other common spaces for sharing Programs & and learning. Once constructed, the building is intended to be owned and operated by the Yellowknife YWCA. Services The planned capacity of the Betty House is for women , both with and without children, who are undertaking the transition from homelessness to long-term, self-sufficient, independent living. In- house supports will be in place to assist these women while they create, commit to, and follow a personal development plan aimed at reducing the physical, emotional, social and spiritual barriers that may be keeping them from succeeding in independent living scenarios. Residents will be required to commit to productive life choices during their tenancy. The women and children living at Betty House may be welcomed for up to two to three years, which will allow them time to stabilize and participate in specific programming such as life skills, financial training and awareness, literacy, and parenting skills. They will be able to gain positive tenancy records and relations, hopefully pay off any arrears, and, with staff supports and assistance, overcome many barriers to self-sufficiency. The support services provided to tenants at the transitional housing project will not be limited to those offered specifically by the YWCA. Other government departments and agencies also provide valuable programs and services which tenants will be encouraged to take advantage of. These include, but are not limited to, the YWCA Family Transitional Housing Programs, Food Rescue, Native Women’s Association, Tree of Peace Friendship Centre, NWT Housing Corporation Homeownership Programs, The Healing Drum Society, and The Sacred Circle Project. It is fully anticipated that, as these tenants move along the continuum, they will eventually be in a position to access full rental market housing, potentially with assistance from the NWTHC Transitional Rent Supplement Program. Another option is to become potential homeowners, taking advantage of programs such as the NWTHC Housing Choices, which is a natural progression to moving them in this direction. 9 Why the Need and Demand Homelessness, or being at risk of homelessness, affects women across the North, including young single women, adult women, women with children, and seniors. All of these groups are potential users of transitional housing for women and women with children. The Yellowknife Homelessness Report Card 2008 provides pertinent information demonstrating the need and demand for a women’s transitional housing project. While the statistics represent the situation in 2008, little has changed for women and children since that time. A copy of the Report Card is available on the City of Yellowknife website: http://www.yellowknife.ca/AssetFactory.aspx?did=8464 people on a waiting list 150 150 people on a waiting The Yellowknife YWCA notes that it has list at any one time and turns people away regularly because of a lack of room. The facility regularly gets a large volume of calls from people inquiring about transitional housing. 614 households in Yellowknife are 74%

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