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2018-2019 A N N U A L R E P O R T ELMWOOD COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE 5 4 5 W A T T S T R E E T , w w w . E L M W O O D C R C . C A W I N N I P E G , M A N I T O B A P h o n e : ( 2 0 4 ) 9 8 2 - 1 7 2 0 R 2 K 2 S 2 F a x : ( 2 0 4 ) 9 8 2 - 1 7 2 3 P A G E 1 Elmwood Community Resource Centre (ECRC) is a not for profit community based organization established in 2001 in Winnipeg. Vision Mission Motto Elmwood is a Community To build the Elmwood Neighbours helping of positive outcome for community with resources neighbours. everyone. and supports that make the neighbourhood a great place to live, work, and raise a family MESSAGE FROM P A G E 2 Nin a Condo Norm Martin EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & CHAIRPERSON OF THE BOARD It is such a privilege to work and serve t he individuals and families of Elmwood. We would like to take this opportunity to express our gratitude to our funders, donors, community partners, stakeholders, and volunteers for going above and beyond expectations to assist us in furthering our goal of serving our community of Elmwood. Our deepest gratitude to staff for their tenacity, to keep up with the inexorably fast pace of change, thoughtfulness, brief periods of burn out, empathy, celebration, challenges, subversive humor, Kleenex, tears, sparkles, thank you cards. All this while walking beside each participants journey. The incredible numbers of services and activities offered throughout last year are because of the staff’s unquenchable dedication, and passion to empower our Elmwood residents to reach their full potential! Special thanks to each members of our team, they are the unsung heroes of ECRC. We had another successful year and now have accomplished all of the priorities set in our 2015 Strategic Plan. This year we have completed the final two priorities: a) Building Strategic Alliances through Knowledge Hub, b) renewing our commitment to diversity with more equitable and intentional effort to develop programs that respond to Truth and Reconciliation Call to Action. We continued to strengthen our programs, and create opportunities to reach out to more members of the Elmwood Community by offering; Gender Based Violence Prevention Programming We implemented a Gender Based Violence Prevention programming with three pillars- pillar one- Family Counselling supporting families and youth who have experienced domestic violence and Trauma through individual or family therapy. The second pillar-Awakening Women’s Empowerment Program used a wrap-around approach in addressing issues of domestic violence and trauma by providing individual counselling, psycho-educational as well as therapeutic group. The program supported women and their children using a trauma-informed care lens, anti-oppressive practices and strength based approach. The third pillar-Inspiring Men, offering 6 weeks group therapy to discuss and develop healthy coping skills and ways of becoming ally in preventing violence in our families and communities. The Awakening Women’s Empowerment program received a special recognition by the University of Manitoba as Allan Klassen Health Equity Award from the Rady Faculty of Health Sciences. Essential Needs Support Our organization has grown tremendously in recent years and the number of youth and families accessing our programs has increased significantly. In particular, our current kitchen facilities have not been able to keep up with our growth. Thank you to United Way of Winnipeg and Richardson Foundation for financial support to purchase and install a commercial dishwasher, new kitchen counter tops, and freezer. Public Relations With the help of the Province of Manitoba-Municipal Relations, we were able to install new building signage at our 545 Watt St as well as purchasing new computers to improve access to technology for our drop-in participants. Finally, we were also able to print promotional materials such as the centre’s new Brochures. We extend a massive thank you to the people that have helped make the past year of the ECRC a thorough success. BUILDING STRATEGIC ALLIANCES P A G E 3 THROUGH KNOWLEDGE HUB The Knowledge Hub was developed to understand social determinants of health and ensure that ECRC develops stra tegic alliances to support the health and well-being of Elmwood residents by meeting the needs for education & literacy, employment, mental health, cultural programming, income security, and housing support. This has been accomplished by bringing the Elmwood community and stakeholders together to develop innovative approaches, which will enhance the social determinants of health of Elmwood residents. We are working closely with Primary Care medical services -Family Physicians from Winnipeg Regional Health Authority –Access River East in creating and strengthening our referral system. Additionally, medical students worked in our counselling program in delivering various community activities. In partnership with University of Manitoba- Faculty of Social Work, students developed various program activities. Our in-house counsellors developed and implemented clinical frameworks, including an Anti- Oppressive approach; Trauma-Informed Care; Strength-based approach and Suicide Risk assessment framework. Students worked on developing our 2019 Environment Scan which provides data for services needs and gaps in Elmwood area. In partnership with Brandon University, the Faculty of Psychiatric Nursing worked in collaboration with our team to develop mental health and wellness tool kits for both youth and families.In collaboration with Elmwood High School, EMWC, YMCA downtown, IRCOM, we offered 2nd annual Spring Break Basketball Classicto over 184 youth various activities including: basketball, games, teen’s wellness conversations, cultural activities for a full day during spring break. We implemented internal professional development to better equip our staff called Learning Lunches where professionals and agencies provide information and training to our staff. We would like to thank the Winnipeg Foundation for their invaluable support towards professional development capacity of our staff members. We have developed Literature reviews for the Awakening Women’s Empowerment Project. We continue to consult with Psychologist and researcher –Jocelyn Proux for evidence informed program development and evaluation to ensure we are enhancing individual social determinant of health using an evidence informed approach. Anne, Our Development Manager, participated in the 360 City Podcast, which is a group of urban designers, planners, strategic thinkers on the impact of Community Hub such as Elmwood Community Resource Centre. Thank you to everyone who made the achievements of this year’s strategic priorities a reality! We would not have done this without your tremendous support, your steadfast generosity with your time and resources to ECRC! STAFF & BOARD OF DIRECTORS P A G E 4 Staff Board Members Nina Condo ~ Executive Director Norm Martin Mark Stine ~ Operations Manager Dylon Martin Anne Oserin-Pinnock~ Development Manager Dianne Murdock Kameliya Denkova ~ Administrative Assistant Leopold Kumbakisaka Kayla Haas ~ Program Assistant Mathew Nordlund Charlene Connors ~ Counselor Christy Anderson Lauren Barker ~ Social Change Agent Lisa Wlasichuk Auday Ab Redah ~ Newcomer Settlement Worker Marko Gjuric Anna Morgante ~ Newcomer Settlement Worker Christine Larose Keria Loewen ~ Tot Spot Coordinator Monika Franklin-Bevan Beth McDonald~ Mental Wellness Coordinator Jennifer Nolin ~ GOAL Teacher Tarek Aziz ~ GOAL Teacher Stephanie Edwards ~ Traditional Parenting Facilitator Mathew Jospeh ~ Community Connector Munugakonwa Mulumeoderhwa ~ Youth Facilitator Allysa Geddes ~ HEEY Facilitator/ Mini-Year Facilitator Sean Sousa ~ Youth Facilitator Hurui Bereketab ~ Youth Facilitator 2018-19 THEME- RECONCILIATION P A G E 5 We as a centre recognize that we are located on Treaty One Territory, therefore, we acknowledge the treaties that were made on this land. With the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action in mind, we strive to work towards reconciliation in our community. As a community, we dedicate ourselves to move forward in partnership with our Indigenous community. Throughout our programs and services we aim to embody major themes of the Truth and Reconciliation's Principles and Calls to Action. An anti-oppressive and systems lens leads our daily service to community members. In our Traditional Child Care Practices Program we strive to strengthen Indigenous peoples culture and traditional ways of parenting!Our Family Fun Days partake in medicine picking as collective community and shared with each other the importance of each medicine. Not only do we discuss reconciliation among Indigenous peoples, we develop and practice ways to reconcile with the diverse populations within our community. Our overall goal is to build the bridges between groups and heal as a whole community. Within our newcomer population reconciliation is also sought after. Together let us stand and connect the bridges within the community! FAMILY RESOURCES P A G E 6 BUILDING BRIDGES WITHIN THE COMMUNITY Drop-in We provide access to community resources, safe space, computer lab, career counselling, community lunches, Wellness Workshops, Resilience Garden for the community to harvest fresh vegetables. Events such as Family Fun Day , where families can enjoy activities from relaxing at the beach to playing a game of bingo, or even painting are available at the drop-in . 750 5,226 7,939 1,800 11,472 cups of coffee served Breakfast with Take Pride Elmwood Accessed