Passages: ressources pour jeunes femmes en difficulté

Published purpose

This 27-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to address the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. To achieve this, Passages : ressources pour jeunes femmes en difficultés plans to (1) consult with women experiencing homelessness in Montréal and the people working with them to identify their needs, (2) develop a status report on service gaps within the various housing resources for at-risk women, and on their unmet multisectoral needs, (3) engage frontline multisectoral actors and future professionals who will serve vulnerable women with regard to the specificity of women’s homelessness, and make them aware of the importance of an intersectional analysis of homelessness measures in Montréal to ensure they are inclusive, and (4) consolidate a network of resources related to housing for at-risk women in Montréal and ensure its sustainability within the Partenariat pour la lutte et la prévention à l'itinérance des femmes de Montréal [Montréal partnership to combat and prevent women’s homelessness]. By the end of the project, the organization will have helped eliminate systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more effective and equitable sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and supporting a positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power in support of women’s equality. In addition, the organization will draw on the diverse field expertise of four housing resources for at-risk women (La Maison Marguerite, Auberge Madeleine, Les Maisons de l’Ancre and La rue des Femmes) to collaboratively develop concrete and structuring solutions to women’s homelessness that will ensure the voice of vulnerable women in Montréal is heard. This approach will include raising awareness of gender-based analysis plus (GBA Plus) applied to homelessness to ensure recognition of the specificity of women’s homelessness by the people responsible for considering and developing continuums of service in the Montréal region for women experiencing homelessness or at risk of experiencing it