Shift has previously partnered with the Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter (CWES), YWCA Calgary and Turner Strategies to produce Women’s Shelters: Enhancing Impact to End Violence (Shelter 2.0). The goal of the report is to initiate an evolution of the traditional women’s shelter model by adding deliberate interventions that include supporting the broader goal of preventing and ending violence.

To advance discussions around this report, the four partners hosted a webinar for the Canadian Observatory on Homelessness, where we highlighted the importance of investing money in services across the prevention continuum, and the important relationship between the homeless-serving systems and violence prevention organizations.

Heather Morley from YWCA and Kim Ruse from CWES also had an opportunity to provide an overview of the research at the Calgary Domestic Violence Collective‘s 3rd Annual Bridging Communities Conference.