Peterborough's Emergency Shelter System - Time for Action!!

PCAP opposes the decision to award the Emergency Shelter Services Request For Proposal to Brock Mission and the YES Shelter!

On Monday October 22nd at 6:30 Peterborough City Council will make a decision on this recommendation - the recommendation report is available online at:

This link.

PCAP has reserved spots to speak to council on this issue. Join us at 5:00 p.m. at the PCAP office for discussion and strategizing about these issues. We will then head to City Hall at 6:00 to share a free meal, provided weekly by Food Not Bombs before attending the council meeting.

We support Peggy Shaugnessy's efforts to provide comprehensive emergency shelter services. Peggy has proven herself to be in solidarity with the poor while the Brock Mission has continually demonstrated mismanagement of finances and its inability to provide adequate services. The YES shelter is headed up by a man who was once the president of the Downtown Business Improvement Association, an organization that consistently runs poor-bashing, anti-youth, and anti-panhandling campaigns.

It's time to demand that the City put some of the most marginalized members of our community first - we need a warming room to open now! We need a fully funded shelter service for single women over the age of 24! We need laundry and shower facilities that are fully accessible to everyone who needs them! We need shelters that are clean, that don't overcrowd, and that have a proper budget for decent food so people aren't forced to eat crappy meals like pasta with cut up weiners and corn and no sauce!