Region of Peel’s podcast on housing and homelessness issues
Region of Peel’s podcast on housing and homelessness issues. Peel Talks Housing, a 12-episode podcast series covering affordable housing and homelessness issues and highlighting the Region of Peel’s efforts to help residents get and keep housing. Podcast guests include residents who have personally experienced housing and homelessness challenges, Region of Peel staff, our partners, academics, policymakers, […]
Article: Canadian Centre for Housing Rights “This is the way that I can help somebody else” December 10, 2021
Article: Canadian Centre for Housing Rights “This is the way that I can help somebody else” December10, 2021https://housingrightscanada.com/this-is-the-way-that-i-can-help-somebody-else/ As an immigrant, a survivor of domestic abuse, and a formerly unhoused person, Dankwa’s journey hasneither been easy nor linear. She wants to share her lived experience because “there are so many other people that nobody will ever know […]
Open Letter: lived experience voices matter
The newly formed Canadian Lived Experience Leadership Network has endorsed the Recovery for Allcampaign and is now calling on the federal government to support the 6-Point Plan and ensure livedand living experience voices are involved in ending chronic homelessness in Canada.https://cleln.ca/lived-experience-voices-matter/
Article: Nov 5, 2021 Brampton, Mississauga – Until Janet Dankwa spoke to members of council
Article: Nov 5, 2021 Brampton, Mississauga — Until Janet Dankwa spoke to members of council. Itwas a raw and emotional delegation that left some elected officials visibly shaken. By Natasha O’Neill. https://thepointer.com/article/2021-11-05/regional-council-hears-sobering-presentation-on-peel-s- homeless-crisis
Janet Dankwa Delegation: Region of Peel request for delegation
Janet Dankwa Delegation: Region of Peel Request for Delegation. Regional Clerk RegionalMunicipality of Peel 10 Peel Centre Drive, Suite A Brampton, ON L6T 4B9 Phone: 905-791-7800 ext.4582 E-mail: council@peelregion.caOct 28, 2021 — Janet Dankwa, Resident of Peel, provided an overview of her lived experience as animmigrant and single mother experiencing chronic homelessness in Peel Region. Janet Dankwa, Resident […]
Meet Janet! PAEH’s newest member
Janet is a tireless advocate for people experiencing homelessness and poverty. Having experiencedhomelessness herself, Janet has made it her mission to volunteer for different advocacy groups in Peel.She recently joined the Peel Alliance to End Homelessness’ Senior Leadership Table to add a livedexperience perspective to the work that it does.https://20khomespeel.ca/news/2021/10/29/meet-janet-paehs-newest-member/
“Homeless and those fleeing violence need ‘immediate’ shelter help as winter looms” by Vjosa Isai, The Pointer, Mon., Oct. 26, 2020.
People who flee countries are pushed to leave under all sorts of harrowing conditions. Janet Dankwa knew the road to a new life north of the American border would be uncertain. For women like her, trapped in an abusive relationship, the decision to escape is often made more difficult by the fear of life on […]
Homelessness in hiding podcast on Amazon Music: 14-04-2022.
In this episode, Moniz and Floyd follow up on Janet Dankwa’s survival story (Episode 6) with an in-depth discussion defining gender- based violence. Learn how one strong woman fought against her abuser and her culture to free herself and her childrenfrom gender-based violence and domestic abuse. Host Mya Moniz sits down with Janet Dankwa,founder of I'm Here […]
