Major Campaign – More than a roof… healing homelessness

Discover all the details of our campaign in our brochure!

For almost 30 years, we have been welcoming and caring for women who are living in a state of homelessness or at risk of becoming homeless.

These women are survivors of severe trauma, often experienced in childhood. They are experiencing chronic post-traumatic stress, which breaks down their relational health and impedes their ability to feel safe and connected to themselves and others.

Our experience, combined with recent discoveries in neuroscience, has enabled us to develop a proven approach that has shown us clearly that healing homelessness requires acknowledgement of the relational wounds caused by violence. It also requires access to safety, security and care.
This relational health intervention approach enables women experiencing homelessness to liberate themselves from this post-traumatic stress, to heal and to return to a normal life.

The La rue des Femmes Relational Health Institute will enable a better understanding, better care and better prevention of homelessness.

Access to medical care is a major issue for women living in a state of homelessness.

They experience extreme violence on the streets, and their health is seriously undermined by their precarious living conditions. Their treatment by health services and their access to care are often poorly adapted to their needs. It was against this backdrop, and with the support of the Jaclyn Fisher Foundation, that the project to open an outreach clinic, one of the pillars of the Institute for Relational Health, was developed.

The clinic is an extension of the emergency and transitional shelter services offered by La rue des Femmes, and provides on-site care that is otherwise not easily accessible to women experiencing homelessness.