{"id":26152,"date":"2026-06-29T14:30:21","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:30:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/?page_id=26152"},"modified":"2026-06-29T14:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T18:40:17","slug":"carole-annes-place-ywca-hamilton","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/responsive-shelter\/carole-annes-place-ywca-hamilton\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Carole Anne\u2019s Place (YWCA Hamilton)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2 text-align-left\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-26094\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/YWCA-Hamilton-300x92.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"92\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/YWCA-Hamilton-300x92.png 300w, https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/YWCA-Hamilton.png 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div> <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2 text-align-right\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<em>Hamilton, Ontario<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/ywcahamilton.org\/programs-services\/housing-services\/carole-anne-s-place-cap\" class=\"su-button su-button-style-default\" style=\"color:#FFFFFF;background-color:#6cadf4;border-color:#578bc4;border-radius:6px\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color:#FFFFFF;padding:0px 18px;font-size:14px;line-height:28px;border-color:#99c6f8;border-radius:6px;text-shadow:none\"> Visit website<\/span><\/a>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Carole Anne\u2019s Place is a low-barrier day and overnight shelter for women and non-binary individuals experiencing homelessness in Hamilton. Operated by YWCA Hamilton, the program provides shelter, meals, healthcare and harm reduction services, withdrawal management, systems navigation, and care coordination. Carole Anne\u2019s Place operates from a trauma-informed and harm reduction framework that incorporates a gender-based analysis of homelessness and drug use.<\/p>\n<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Maintaining Low-Barrier Admissions<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div> <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>Carole Anne\u2019s Place maintains low-barrier access to shelter by:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Welcoming women and non-binary individuals who use drugs; and<\/li>\n<li>Supporting participants regardless of their goals related to drug use.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:30px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#ccc\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Creating Flexible &amp; Participant-Centred Expectations<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div> <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>Carole Anne\u2019s Place approach is grounded in participant choice and individualized support. Practices include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offering individualized care planning and coordination; and<\/li>\n<li>Working collaboratively with participants to identify priorities and support needs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:30px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#ccc\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Fostering Safe &amp; Trusting Environments<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div> <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>Carole Anne\u2019s Place incorporates several practices aimed at building trust, safety, and connection, including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrating peer workers into service delivery through partnership with Keeping Six, a community-based organizations that promotes and defends the rights of people who use drugs;<\/li>\n<li>Facilitating access to mental health supports;<\/li>\n<li>Connecting participants to crisis intervention and emergency supports; and<\/li>\n<li>Creating dedicated spaces for women and non-binary individuals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:30px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#ccc\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Embedding Harm Reduction &amp; Health Supports<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div> <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>Carole Anne&#8217;s Place integrates harm reduction and healthcare supports into daily shelter operations through:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Operating a supervised consumption space exclusively for women, trans, and non-binary people;<\/li>\n<li>Providing sterile injection and safer smoking equipment, safer-sex supplies, naloxone kits, and sharps disposal containers;<\/li>\n<li>Offering withdrawal management services on site;<\/li>\n<li>Providing low-barrier healthcare services;<\/li>\n<li>Supporting access to sexual and reproductive healthcare;<\/li>\n<li>Partnering with <a href=\"https:\/\/shelterhealthnetwork.ca\/?page_id=711\">Shelter Health Midwifery<\/a> to provide reproductive health services; and<\/li>\n<li>Connecting participants with mental health, addiction, and primary care supports.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-divider su-divider-style-default\" style=\"margin:30px 0;border-width:1px;border-color:#ccc\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-row\"><div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<h3 class=\"p1\">Recognizing Women&#8217;s Intersecting Identities<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div> <div class=\"su-column su-column-size-2-3\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<p>Carole Anne\u2019s Place recognizes the overlapping impacts of homelessness, drug use, gender-based violence, poverty, and health inequities. Practices include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offering a supervised consumption space exclusively for women, trans, and non-binary people;<\/li>\n<li>Incorporating a gender-based analysis into service delivery;<\/li>\n<li>Supporting access to reproductive healthcare;<\/li>\n<li>Supporting access to gender-affirming healthcare;<\/li>\n<li>Providing advocacy and systems navigation supports; and<\/li>\n<li>Connecting participants to housing, legal, healthcare, and community services.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-box su-box-style-default\" id=\"\" style=\"border-color:#779404;border-radius:3px;\"><div class=\"su-box-title\" style=\"background-color:#aac737;color:#FFFFFF;border-top-left-radius:1px;border-top-right-radius:1px\">Program Spotlight: Women-Centred Supervised Consumption Space<\/div><div class=\"su-box-content su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\" style=\"border-bottom-left-radius:1px;border-bottom-right-radius:1px\">\n<p>Carole Anne\u2019s Place operates a supervised consumption space, open from 10pm to 9am, exclusively for women, trans, and non-binary people. The space provides:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A safer environment for drug use;<\/li>\n<li>Access to sterile supplies and naloxone;<\/li>\n<li>Immediate support during emergencies;<\/li>\n<li>Connections to healthcare and social services; and<\/li>\n<li>Opportunities to build trusting relationships with staff and peer workers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carole Anne\u2019s Place is a low-barrier day and overnight shelter for women and non-binary individuals experiencing homelessness in Hamilton. Operated by YWCA Hamilton, the program provides shelter, meals, healthcare and harm reduction services, withdrawal management, systems navigation, and care coordination. Carole Anne\u2019s Place operates from a trauma-informed and harm reduction framework that incorporates a gender-based &#8230; <a title=\"Carole Anne\u2019s Place (YWCA Hamilton)\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/responsive-shelter\/carole-annes-place-ywca-hamilton\/?lang=en\" aria-label=\"More on Carole Anne\u2019s Place (YWCA Hamilton)\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":26085,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-26152","page","type-page","status-publish"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26152"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26164,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26152\/revisions\/26164"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}