CRISIS HOMES INC. ANNUAL REPORT

2019 – 2020

OUR VISION

Every person is loved, accepted, peaceful and free

Every person lives in a safe, inclusive, mindful community `

Faye (Faye Peterson House) turns crisis into the opportunity for change. We provide a safe

shelter and caring services giving Women and their Children the opportunity to transform

their lives by nurturing, sheltering, building self-confidence and growth through the offering

of self-care practices while exploring healthy choices.

Architect’s Rendition of Proposed 2nd Stage Housing on our Property

MISSION

Faye is an inclusive community based feminist organization which operates within an Anti

Racism/Anti Oppression framework and collaborating with men who are also striving to these

same goals. We are committed to societal change to achieve social justice for all women,

youth and children through public education, policy development and advocacy, mentoring

mindfulness attitudes with our colleagues joining passions to hold people who are abusers’ of

violence against women and children accountable through fair application of the laws

(including prosecution) and provision of therapeutic programming.

New paint job to freshen up the bedrooms

Claire modelling

the new PPE for

frontline

2019/20 Statistics

235 Women & 137 Children resided at Faye

2,334 Crisis Calls were received

212 clients registered with Outreach Program

staff

(156 unique clients – clients can be

involved in more than one program)

554 Childcare sessions provided by our

ECE workers

New furniture from The Brick

Pillar of our Works

Respect: We respect individual choice and diversity while maintaining dignity by being non judgemental; instead choosing to empower using our wisdom principals with the women, youth and children we serve.

Equality: We are advocates for systemic change committed to equality using a feminist analysis (women supporting women) within an AR/AO framework.

Accountability: We believe in personal and agency accountability for our actions to each other, the

women, youth and children we serve. We strive to present ourselves as positive

role models both within FAYE and in our communities.

Courage: We believe women, youth and children can grow, to develop hope and prosper, if

we dare to be bold in our beliefs, stand by our convictions and be fearless in our

quest for a community free of violence.

Independence: We believe in the strength and value of maintaining an independent/ autonomous (Self determination) organization which collaborates with community partners and works within a spirit

of teamwork to meet our goals of our vision and mission statement.

Mindful We value our bodies and this earth and strive to optimize our physical and emotional health through the use of earth-friendly products, employing energy cleansing practices, embodying interpersonal mindfulness attributes and practicing being peace both as a physical space and as individuals.

for the huge donation of new furnishings to help freshen up

Faye Peterson House Women’s Shelter

What a wonderful gesture showing community support.

Some of the items -

Community Supports

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The results from the 4th Annual Pasta Swap are in.

This holiday season, you donated 26, 482g of dried

pasta. That’s enough to feed approximately 177

pasta loving people.

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Sending out a big THANK YOU to the organizers and participants

of A December to Remember Charity Dance Workshop for their

amazing support. The event raised $832 as well non-perishable

food items and essential gift bags!

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The children in Mrs. Heppler’s grade 1/2 class at St. Thomas-Aquinas

did a toy drive and exceeded their goal of 30 toys by far. Thank you

for all your hard work and generosity! The toys are already receiving

a lot of love in our playroom!

Sending out a huge THANK YOU to Gore Motors Honda for always

taking care of our children! Pictured here are the toys collected from

the 20th annual Toy Odyssey!

We are so excited for the beautiful new furnishing donated to Faye

by The Brick!

The Cheese Encounter

In honour of International Women’s Day, we’ll be

donating 10% of retail cheese sales from this Friday

& Saturday to the Faye Peterson House.

This Grade 5 Class from Woodcrest Public School has

been learning about how to help others through a

Thunder Bay Basketeers fundraiser.

Royal LePage/Lannon Realty

Thunder Bay Basketeers - Another amazing year.

Generosity

We believe generosity reduces separation - it makes the community part of us, and us part of the community. This may ultimately be of greater value to shelters than the amount of money raised. People will protect, nurture and support what they help create!

The support we receive from organizations,

professionals and individuals, some of these for many,

many years, is truly heartfelt, reminding us in our daily

work our community is full of love. We are grateful to

these individuals, religious organizations and businesses

in Thunder Bay and area who give generously to us

each year so we can do this work in our Community.

We would like to thank everyone for their generosity

and support.

The following is a list of some of these organizations -

AMJ Van Lines

Bay Credit Union

BEST Services Pros Ltd.

CCA – Community Clothing Assistance

Chapters

Chartwell Isabella Retirement Residence

Chatters

Dougall Media

Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario

Friends of Faye

Indigo/Chapters

Gore Motors Honda – 20th Annual Toy Odyssey

John Andrews Foundation

Kinette Club of Thunder Bay Hill City

Lakehead District School Board

Lakehead Public Schools

Lakehead University, Faculty of Law - Law Students

Society

North West Local Health Integration Network

Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association

Ontario Realtors Care Foundation

OPSEU Local 715

Project Linus

Purse Project

Royal LePage Lannon Realty, Basketeers

Royal LePage Shelter Foundation

Shelter from the Storm - Canadian Women's

Foundation

St. Ignatius High School

Superior Greenstone

The Brick

The West Fort Prosvita Society

Thunder Bay Quilters Guild

Thunder Bay Real Estate Board

Union of Taxation Employees Local 00020

United Way

Walmart

Winners/Homesense/TJX Canada Foundation

WSIB

Future

Thank you to the community of Thunder Bay for the on-going support of our second stage

housing development as we received another $55,188 in donations towards this essential

project. We continue to work with CMHC, Co-investment funding, new construction for

capital dollars however we have encountered some challenges and will likely need another

source of funding. Making affordable, safe and supportive housing available to women and

children who have been abused remains the Boards’ first priority.

This year we received additional funding through the Rural Realities fund to enhance our

ability to offer alternate delivery programming supporting our Community Partner, Thunder

Bay Counselling Centre, to establish an alternate delivery site. Little did we know COVID-19

would have such a big impact on services! We look forward to improving the safety and

interventions for women working within this agency.

COVID-19 has caused a shift in shelter services mid March until the end of May where we

moved low and medium risk women to motels and provided shelter service only to higher risk

women. Across Canada as well as locally we have seen a decrease in request for physical

shelter and as the Province starts to open up we are seeing an increase in crisis calls and

request for shelter. Outreach programming has been maintained using audio and zoom while

Outreach programming staff relocated to their home offices. It is likely we will continue to

deliver non shelter services in this manner until at least September and depending on what

we see with a second wave of COVID this fall, possibly until January. Managers and staff are

continually adapting to our new normal and visioning our future.

Thunder Bay remains a city with increasing violence; gang related violence as well as

staggering high rates of substance use and mental health issues. These issues result in

increased harm and trauma to the women and children we serve. We experience a need for

increased trauma informed services using healing alternatives such as meditation,

mindfulness, yoga, expressive arts, etc. We continue to educate ourselves on Gender fluidity

both as a Board and Staff and have hired Aiden Kovisto as a Social Policy Consultant to review

our policies, develop resource packages for staff, continue education with the staff and to

write a research paper on Shelter services for Trans men. In our objective to work within an

Anti Racist/Anti Oppression framework we must as a staff and Board do the work to explore

the delivery of services. It is not enough to say we support Black Lives Matter, 2SLGBTQIA+

and Indigenous communities; we must explore our privilege each and every day. We believe

continually exploring our privilege is not seen or felt as a burden or source of guilt but rather

an opportunity to learn and be responsible so that we may work toward a more just and

inclusive world.

2019/2020 Board of Directors

Anne Lorene (Lori) Chambers (Chair)

Karen Slomke

Heather LeBlanc

Marsha Ledger

Laura Meisner

Bonnie Krysowaty

Jessica Carfagnini

Our Vision

We are innovative leaders inspiring peace, healing and Empowerment in our community. Our Mission We live our mission by embodying the values that guide Faye Peterson House in our daily lives, and advocating a mindful approach to innovative VAW practices.

Crisis Homes Inc.

Statement of Financial Position Crisis Operating Homes Total Total March 31 Fund Fund 2020 2019

Assets Current Cash $ - $ 217,619 $ 217,619 $ 123,010 Short Term Investments (Note 4) - 68,063 68,063 67,150 Accounts Receivable 39,073 - 39,073 11,165 Government remittances receivable 15,141 - 15,141 18,845 Prepaid expenses 9,388 - 9,388 10,004 Due from Crisis Homes Fund 10,245 - 10,245 - Due from Operating Fund - - - 30,762 73,847 285,682 359,529 260,936 Long term investment (Note 5) - 89,867 89,867 102,340 $ 73,847 $ 375,549 $ 449,396 $ 363,276

Liabilities and Net Assets Current Accounts payable and accrued Liabilities (Note 6) $ 139,528 - 139,528 87,635 Government remittances payable 6,355 - 6,355 330 Deferred revenue (Note 7) 24,370 - 24,370 9,887 Due to Operating Fund - 10,245 10,245 - Due to Crisis Homes Fund - - - 30,762 170,253 10,245 180,498 128,614 Net Assets Unrestricted (96,406) 365,304 268,898 234,662 $ 73,847 $ 375,549 $ 449,396 $ 363,276

Crisis Homes Inc. Statement of Operations and Fund Balances

Crisis Operating Homes Total Total For the year ended March 31 Fund Fund 2020 2019

Revenue Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services

- Operating grant $1,594,321 $ - $ 1,594,321 1,629,206 - Social Infrastructure Fund - - - 74,367

Other grants 40,229 - 40,229 46,643 Ministry of Attorney General 97,500 - 97,500 97,500 Donations - 49,418 49,418 57,189 Other - 8,993 8,993 7,644

1,732,050 58,411 1,790,461 1,912,549 Expenditures Advertising and promotion 8,079 - 8,079 4,090 Communication 7,579 - 7,579 10,393 COVID-19 costs 9,191 - 9,191 - Insurance 16,896 - 16,896 15,762 Other Services 34,365 - 34,365 45,475 Professional/contracted IT Services 4,463 - 4,463 5,057 Professional/contracted services 36,223 - 36,223 60,871 Program costs 49,419 3,223 52,642 142,064 Rural Realities 45,000 - 45,000 45,000 Services related to R&M 46,109 - 46,109 42,050 Staff Training 18,702 - 18,702 19,021 Supplies and equipment – IT 1,685 - 1,685 328 Supplies and equipment – R&M 9,514 - 9,514 6,303 Supplies and equipment – other 64,656 - 64,656 65,915 Travel 29,426 - 29,426 22,297 Utilities 23,555 - 23,555 24,234 Wages and benefits 1,334,994 - 1,334,994 1,368,511 1,739,856 3,223 1,743,079 1,877,371 Excess (deficiency) of revenue over Expenditures for the year before the undernoted (7,806) 55,188 47,382 35,178 Unrealized loss on long term Investments - (13,146) (13,146) (2,636) Excess of revenue over Expenditures for the year (7,806) 42,042 34,236 32,542 Fund balances, beginning of year (88,600) 323,262 234,662 202,120 Fund balances, end of year $ (96,406) $ 365,304 $ 268,898 $ 234,662