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OTTAWA The city of Ottawa says all parties are working tirelessly to find a new temporary location for an emergency shelter for women, after the lease for its current location at the University of Ottawa was cut short by a month. Cornerstone Housing for Women says it has three weeks to find an interim site for its emergency shelter, or more than 100 vulnerable residents will lose their shelter. The shelter opened its site at the University of Ottawa in December 2020 after the city asked the organization to expand its capacity to accommodate a surge in demand for women and gender-diverse individuals experiencing homelessness for the winter. The city arranged for space at the university to ensure there was enough space for physical distancing to be maintained.
I am a white professional director of a medium-sized, non-profit called Cornerstone Housing for Women. If you met me, you might see my successes, but you would not see my Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder.
To be exact, you don’t see the triggers behind wearing a mask.
Women’s experiences behind the mask during this pandemic have not been talked about enough, nor have they been at the forefront of major pandemic regulations and policy decisions.
May is Mental Health Awareness Month and we must come together without judgment, with compassion and with a call to end the stigma around Mental Health. We must work together to find tangible solutions for post-pandemic life that ensure everyone has access to safe, mental health supports that use a trauma-informed, gender-based lens.