St. Leonard's House-Windsor

Celebrated our Sweet boy this week! Happy 16th Birthday to Isen, our favourite boy!

https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/campbell-dont-turn-back-the-clock-on-canadas-treatment-of-people-serving-life-sentences #:~:text=A%20handful%20of%20people%20in,standard%20from%20200%20years%20ago.

https://theconversation.com/public-notifications-make-it-challenging-for-prisoners-to-reintegrate-after-release-230769

Public notifications make it challenging for prisoners to reintegrate after release Community notifications are intended to be helpful, however, they can also make reintegrating back into the community challenging for released individuals.

We will be celebrating Isen's 'Sweet 16' Tuesday, June 11 at 4pm. All are welcome to stop by and offer your best wishes.

In-Reach Worker and Advocate Rick Sauve and Executive Director Catherine Brooke had the honour of testifying on the Government's Response to the Senate's Report on the Human Rights of Federally Sentenced Persons.

Video Link: https://senparlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2/20240319/-1/13158 (18:07 mark)

The full report can be found here: https://sencanada.ca/en/info-page/parl-43-2/ridr-federally-sentenced-persons/

https://theconversation.com/pierre-poilievres-proposed-mandatory-minimum-penalties-will-not-reduce-crime-224842?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%205%202024&utm_content=Latest%20from%20The%20Conversation%20for%20March%205%202024+CID_a7163a4258243f9ced4acbfa6a11b811&utm_source=campaign_monitor_ca&utm_term=mandatory%20minimum%20penalties%20will%20not%20reduce%20crime

Pierre Poilievre’s proposed mandatory minimum penalties will not reduce crime Pierre Poilievre’s “tough-on-crime” rhetoric relies on discredited ideas that can lead to overly harsh penalties and actually increase crime.

We want to send out a special thanks to Brooklyn Bailey who attended a talk given by our Residential Case Manager, Jen Graham and Peer Worker Dirk Young in her Introduction to Criminology class at the university last semester. She asked for donations of toiletries instead of Christmas gifts this year. Thank you Brooklyn for thinking of us and for all your support!

HAPPY RETIREMENT TO MICHELLE! We are beyond excited for you! Your contribution to the St. Leonard's community is immeasurable. Your dedication, compassion and guidance to those incarcerated, particularly men serving life sentences made you the heart and soul of this house for almost three decades.
Thank you for your advocacy and your support to every single person who has walked through our doors and beyond.
Thank you for blazing the trail and setting such a strong example for us to follow - your work will be continued. That's a promise!
Cheers to you Michelle! Time to celebrate and relax....

Thank you to Jocelyn, owner of Urban Crow Soap, for the generous donation of handmade soaps for our folks. Now we will all be clean for Santa's arrival!

Please consider giving to St. Leonard's House Windsor this Giving Tuesday. Your donation contributes to public safety and supportive reintegration programs for people leaving federal correctional institutions. We also have a variety of institutional and community crime prevention programs that need your support. For a list of our programs please see out website www.stleonardswindsor.com.
Donations can be made through the Canada Helps website https://www.canadahelps.org/en/charities/st-leonards-house-windsor/

Way overdue to share this sweet face with you! King Isen continues to live his best life! Happy Wednesday!

https://www.homelesshub.ca/blog/prison-homelessness-factory?utm_campaign=hh&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter

Prison: A Homelessness Factory | The Homeless Hub The Canadian Observatory on Homelessness is the largest national research institute devoted to homelessness in Canada. The COH is the curator of the Homeless Hub.

Big thanks to Navjeet and the Smile Wagon for stopping by today and giving our residents much needed dental care! What a great program for those who cant afford these services otherwise.

https://windsorstar.com/news/local-news/accused-bridge-blockader-avoids-windsor-trial-with-cat-donation?fbclid=IwAR1ammqQi4aEjLh9xuGolK-_82phWdNirL9JbhPQENcxAwD514BOB5qqdEY

Nice to be mentioned in this article. Shout out to Nicole Maygar, Community Justice Worker, who manages St. Leonard's House's Direct Accountability Program funded by the Ministry of the Attorney General. For more information about the program, call 519-258-4848 or email [email protected]

Accused bridge blockader avoids Windsor trial with cat donation Accused bridge blockader avoids Windsor criminal trial with donation to cats

Check out these posters done by two of our residents. Let's hope they are lucky enough to win some tickets! /spitfires

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1000040328116882&set=a.714426230011628

Thank you so much to all of you who helped get us to this point! Your support means a lot to us. Wish us luck!

Congratulations to our top 3 finalists!

Our second finalist is St. Leonard's House-Windsor. They enhance our community’s safety by providing structured transitional supports that enable offenders and at-risk individuals to become law-abiding and productive citizens.

Stay tuned as we will be announcing our last finalist shortly. We are very excited to enter the final step for WindUp 2023 where our 3 finalists have the chance to win the grand prize of $20,000 in creative and video services from Generator Design and Media Street Productions Inc.

Who will be our winner? We’ll let you know soon!

Find out more about St. Leonard’s House Windsor: https://www.stleonardswindsor.com/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/support-group-family-offenders-st-leonards-house-windsor-1.4744751?fbclid=IwAR2vhWr7LxAZT_d1XMI5mSXD5_-iYFJH8IDlpohZtlUdowjh-C0T6ttSQGU

Our Mothers and Spouses of Offenders support group is celebrating 10 years of ground breaking work! We are so proud of our facilitators Rielly and Jen for the important work they do. We also want to thank the many women who have put their trust in us and each other over the past decade.

'Victims in their own way,' St. Leonard's to support families of offenders | CBC News Funding has provided St. Leonard's House the opportunity to offer more support groups for family members of convicted offenders.

Please continue to vote and support!
Voting goes until July 10th

St. Leonard's House-Windsor has been contributing to public safety and the supportive reintegration of offenders since 1962.

Find out more about St. Leonard’s House: www.stleonardswindsor.com

Vote once per day starting June 26 at 12:00 PM: www.generatorwindup.ca

Isen got some much needed pool time this past weekend! Good for his joints and definitely brought out the puppy in him.

He wanted to remind everyone today to please vote for St. Leonard's by going to the link posted yesterday.

Happy Wednesday everyone!

St. Leonard's House-Windsor has been contributing to public safety and the supportive reintegration of offenders since 1962.

Find out more about St. Leonard’s House: www.stleonardswindsor.com

Vote once per day starting June 26 at 12:00 PM: www.generatorwindup.ca

Please take a minute to vote for St. Leonard's House to win a $20,000 prize towards a media overhaul with Generator Design and Media Street! Vote each day up until July 10 at 5pm.

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