‘Felt like home’: YWCA Regina opens Kikakihtânaw Centre for Women and Families

Vulnerable women, children and families successful Regina volition present person different spot to entree supports with the opening of a caller centre that volition supply invaluable services nether 1 roof.

On Wednesday, the YWCA opened the Kikakihtânaw Centre for Women and Families, located astatine 2817 12th Ave.

The installation looks to code the barriers faced by women fleeing homelessness oregon convulsive situations.

“Our women person been successful this abstraction present for 3 weeks, and I tin already spot the mode that they navigate a day, however they stitchery unneurotic what they’re doing to enactment each different is different,” YWCA Regina CEO Melissa Coomber-Bendtsen said.

For YWCA nonmigratory Tanya Bunnie, it was a accidental for a caller start

“It virtually felt similar home,” Bunnie said. “I came present and determination was nary barriers oregon thing it was each caller and caller and it was for me.”

Bunnie had antecedently been surviving connected the streets, successful and retired of shelters, but erstwhile she landed astatine the YWCA successful January, she said she was welcomed with unfastened arms.

“(The YWCA) said ‘let’s propulsion you towards thing that you tin thrive in.’  I took each accidental to effort and amended myself successful immoderate benignant of way.  Mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally.

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Since becoming a nonmigratory of the YWCA, Bunnie started to pb beading and ribbon skirt making lessons wrong the caller facility.

The $70-million installation was funded done donors, assemblage partners, and each levels of government.

“I saw connected time 1 of erstwhile our women came successful that they felt antithetic astir wherever they were and what was possible,” Coomber-Bendtsen said.

“I deliberation that consciousness of anticipation is thing that I’m already starting to spot successful the women that we’re serving.”