DONATION DROP OFF DAY - WEDNESDAY, MAY 28
Somerset West Community Centre, 55 Eccles Street, 9a.m. to noon
Please note that we are no longer able to accept donations of used clothing
and linens due to health reasons. Toiletries and food items must be new and
unopened.
The following is a list of items that Harmony House needs for its residents.
All items should be clean, new or gently used and in good working order.
- Small kitchen appliances, such as kettles, toasters, toaster ovens,
can openers
- Pyrex/corning ware casserole dishes
- Juice/water/milk pitchers
- Baking items (mixing bowls, muffin tins, cookie sheets, cake pans, measuring
cups and spoons)
- Dish soap, laundry detergent, dryer sheets, all purpose cleaners
- Table lamps
- Paper products such as paper towels, Kleenex, toilet paper, sanitary pads
- Cutlery, serving utensils, spatulas, ice cube trays
- Dinner plates, bowls, drinking glasses, mugs
- Clothes hangars
Highlights from Executive Director Board Report
In March of this year Ottawa area shelters organized a full day workshop
on legal advocacy on family, child welfare and immigration law. Local
lawyers provided excellent overviews to current legal systems and how
best to advocate for abused women within them. Resources advocates can
use in working with women navigating various legal systems were distributed.
Feedback on the day was very positive.
Area shelters are also participating in the Ontario Association of Interval
and Transition Houses’ (OAITH’s) Survivors Voices project
which is aimed at increasing abused women’s opportunities for involvement
in work to address and end violence against women. Meetings will be held
in eastern Ontario starting April 30th. If you or someone you know is
interested in attending please contact Harmony House for more information.
For the past two years area services to survivors of violence and the
Children’s Aid Society have been working on the Children’s
Aid Society /Violence Against Women Integrated Services project. The
aim is to ensure the best possible interventions to women and children
who are coping with violence in order to maximize safety while supporting
their strengths. After extensive planning the project is underway and
by all accounts is resulting in positive relationships between our two
sectors and interventions that respond creatively to the real needs of
women and children coping with male violence. The project will be assembling
a community reference group at some point in the future. If you are interested
in this project, particularly if you have had dealings with child welfare
as an abused woman or as a member of a community that has traditionally
not felt their needs were adequately understood by child welfare, perhaps
due to culture, ethnicity, race, disability, sexuality, language or economic
hardship, please get in touch with Harmony House and we will try to connect
you to this project.
Harmony House’s Social Action Committee is looking for a few good
men. This fall we would like to hold a focus group with respected men
in our community to see what messages about positive relationships with
women and non-violence in intimate relationships they think would be
most effective in reaching other men in our community. Based on their
thoughts we hope to develop a public service announcement campaign with
messages about ending violence against women.
Harmony House is teeming with ‘little gaffers’ these days.
With the sunshine we have been getting out the wading pools much to everyone’s
delight and entertainment. We are looking forward to another successful
summer recreation program for the children of Harmony House along with
the continuation of our various programs assisting women to regain their
freedom from violence.
2007 Newsletter is now here!
Click here to
read our newsletter for 2007 in pdf format.
Annual AGM 2007
Harmony House held its annual general meeting on Thursday, June
21, 2007, at 6p.m. at St. Matthew’s Anglican Church, 217 First Avenue.
All were welcome to attend.
St. Matthew's Harmony House, Ottawa By-law No.
1
Click here to
read the by-law as adopted June 16, 2005 (as amended, June 22, 2006) in
pdf format.
