Hiatus House

Published purpose

This 31-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Hiatus House will achieve this by developing and implementing community-wide approaches to address barriers for women from diverse backgrounds who are experiencing gender-based violence; building relationships between equality-seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality, and; by improving the local system's ability to recognize and respond to gender based violence. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality. Hiatus House will establish and coordinate the Violence Against Women’s Committee in Windsor Essex composed of people with lived experience, Windsor Police Service, Windsor Sexual Assault Crisis Center, Victim Witness Assistance Program, Legal Assistance of Windsor/WEFIiGHT and Réseau-femmes du sud-ouest de l'Ontario to improve collaboration amongst likeminded organizations in the region responding to gender-based violence and lead the dissemination of key recommendations for policy and programs towards a recovery from the impacts of COVID-19.