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Episode Synopsis
In this episode, we speak with Lady Laforet, Executive Director – The Welcome Centre Shelter for Women and Families.
Stewarding services that are data driven and evidence-based, Ms. Laforet’s focus at the Centre over the past 15 years has been on areas of transformational leadership, change management, and ensuring homelessness services are provided in community with a strong gender-based lens. Currently in their second year in their new space at 500 Tuscarora, Ms. Laforet is currently overseeing the agency’s incoming 5-year strategic plan, with pillar areas of community connections, internal excellence, and advocacy driving her work. Community-minded and pragmatic, she splits her time between her work and her home-life- with her husband, two daughters, three cats, and a dog.
The Welcome Centre Shelter works to actively transition women+ and families out of homelessness through emergency shelter and peer-supported services.
Centre Programs:
Emergency shelter and basic needs for women+ and families experiencing absolute homelessness (can support 32 single women and 21+ families with minor children)
Housing support case management targeting keeping shelter stays infrequent and short in duration.
Family support case management for high acuity/need families with additional barriers, with a focus on children’s school attendance and system access
Children’s on-site recreational programming
Harm reduction programming for agency clients and community members, that provides access to available Needle Syringe Programming (NSP) and sexual health supplies.
On-site, once weekly general practitioner support to shelter service users, as part of the Shelter Health Network
Twice weekly drop-in program targeting prior shelter system users who are transitioning into housing and seeking additional social supports and peer engagement.
Peer Engagement Program to connect women in shelter with trained peer engagement workers who support healthy, informed, and peer supported shelter stays.
Contact Information:
Website: http://www.welcomecentreshelter.com/
Social links: https://linktr.ee/welcomecentreshelter
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (519) 971-7595
“Inspiring Community” is a production of the Windsor-Essex Children’s Aid Society
Connect with WECAS & Hosts:
www.wecas.on.ca
[email protected]
Socials: @WindsorEssexCAS
Stewarding services that are data driven and evidence-based, Ms. Laforet’s focus at the Centre over the past 15 years has been on areas of transformational leadership, change management, and ensuring homelessness services are provided in community with a strong gender-based lens. Currently in their second year in their new space at 500 Tuscarora, Ms. Laforet is currently overseeing the agency’s incoming 5-year strategic plan, with pillar areas of community connections, internal excellence, and advocacy driving her work. Community-minded and pragmatic, she splits her time between her work and her home-life- with her husband, two daughters, three cats, and a dog.
The Welcome Centre Shelter works to actively transition women+ and families out of homelessness through emergency shelter and peer-supported services.
Centre Programs:
Emergency shelter and basic needs for women+ and families experiencing absolute homelessness (can support 32 single women and 21+ families with minor children)
Housing support case management targeting keeping shelter stays infrequent and short in duration.
Family support case management for high acuity/need families with additional barriers, with a focus on children’s school attendance and system access
Children’s on-site recreational programming
Harm reduction programming for agency clients and community members, that provides access to available Needle Syringe Programming (NSP) and sexual health supplies.
On-site, once weekly general practitioner support to shelter service users, as part of the Shelter Health Network
Twice weekly drop-in program targeting prior shelter system users who are transitioning into housing and seeking additional social supports and peer engagement.
Peer Engagement Program to connect women in shelter with trained peer engagement workers who support healthy, informed, and peer supported shelter stays.
Contact Information:
Website: http://www.welcomecentreshelter.com/
Social links: https://linktr.ee/welcomecentreshelter
Email: [email protected]
Phone: (519) 971-7595
“Inspiring Community” is a production of the Windsor-Essex Children’s Aid Society
Connect with WECAS & Hosts:
www.wecas.on.ca
[email protected]
Socials: @WindsorEssexCAS
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