Jan 15 2022 37 mins
Janine Berridge-Paul is joined by Sharon Simpsonand May Ann Proulx Street to discuss the amazing work that is happening in the York Region community with a specific focus on the impacts of COVID-19 on women.
Sharon Simpson is a member of Social Planning York Region board of directors. She has over 30 years experience working in the not-for-profit community social service sector. Sharon is the Special Projects Coordinator at Labour Community Services. She is the past president of Urban Alliance on Race Relations and the Assaulted Women’s Help Line (AWHL). She continues to serve on the board of directors. For several years Sharon chaired the Community Worker Program Advisory Committee at George Brown College. Between 2009 and 2014 along with Peter Sawchuk (University of Toronto) Sharon co-led on the Anti-Poverty Community Organizing & Learning Project (APCOL) Research, which focussed on how people learn to engage, re-engage, and remain unengaged in various forms of anti-poverty community activism.
Mary-Ann Proulx has been in the Region for 40 years living in Newmarket and working in York Region: 10 years children’s mental health, 10 years adult mental health and 20 years working with people experiencing homelessness and those living at poverty. She is currently working at LOFT Community Services as the Street Outreach Coordinator and has served on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity, York Region, Community Legal Clinic of York Region, and Bereaved Families of Ontario, Newmarket. Mary-Ann has chaired the Family Selection Committee for Habitat for Humanity, York Region for 7 years and volunteered for Canadian Mental Health Association, York Region, Yellow Brick House, Inn from the ColD. She is currently a volunteer for ADAPT
Sharon Simpson is a member of Social Planning York Region board of directors. She has over 30 years experience working in the not-for-profit community social service sector. Sharon is the Special Projects Coordinator at Labour Community Services. She is the past president of Urban Alliance on Race Relations and the Assaulted Women’s Help Line (AWHL). She continues to serve on the board of directors. For several years Sharon chaired the Community Worker Program Advisory Committee at George Brown College. Between 2009 and 2014 along with Peter Sawchuk (University of Toronto) Sharon co-led on the Anti-Poverty Community Organizing & Learning Project (APCOL) Research, which focussed on how people learn to engage, re-engage, and remain unengaged in various forms of anti-poverty community activism.
Mary-Ann Proulx has been in the Region for 40 years living in Newmarket and working in York Region: 10 years children’s mental health, 10 years adult mental health and 20 years working with people experiencing homelessness and those living at poverty. She is currently working at LOFT Community Services as the Street Outreach Coordinator and has served on the Board of Directors for Habitat for Humanity, York Region, Community Legal Clinic of York Region, and Bereaved Families of Ontario, Newmarket. Mary-Ann has chaired the Family Selection Committee for Habitat for Humanity, York Region for 7 years and volunteered for Canadian Mental Health Association, York Region, Yellow Brick House, Inn from the ColD. She is currently a volunteer for ADAPT