UNITED WAY SIMCOE MUSKOKA
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Mission Statement
Our Mission: To improve lives and build community by leveraging collective resources and mobilizing collective action to achieve the greatest impact.
About This Cause
We’re making poverty #UNIGNORABLE, but we need your help. More than 60,000 people across our region are challenged by poverty, and it's affecting their ability to be safe, to be healthy and to get ahead. Their struggle affects us all. United Way Simcoe Muskoka (UWSM) is taking action to reduce poverty and open pathways to prosperity. For 60 years, local residents and businesses have trusted UWSM to invest in the smartest solutions to our worst social problems. Today United Way is transforming local communities - and the lives of everyone who lives here. Your donations power this critical work. Please visit our website to learn more. How would you like to direct your United Way Simcoe Muskoka donation? COMMUNITY FUND: a 100% local granting program funding high-impact poverty reduction. WOMEN UNITED: a 100% donor-directed, local granting program addressing issues affecting girls and women. URGENT NEEDS FUND: a 100% local granting program that provides timely, one-time grants directly to those living in or at-risk of living in poverty. Questions? Please contact UWSM directly: Brian Shelley, CEPO: 705-726-2301, x2025, bshelley@UWSimcoeMuskoka.ca Suzanne Prosser, Relationship Manager: 705-345-2751, sprosser@UWSimcoeMuskoka.ca Please give generously to United Way Simcoe Muskoka and help us make poverty in Simcoe Muskoka #UNIGNORABLE. _____________________________________________________ UPCOMING DOCUMENTARY SCREENING EVENTS FLOOD: The Overdose Epidemic in Canada About the documentary: There’s no sugarcoating it – Canadian lives are being taken at an alarming rate by apparent overdose-related deaths. Lives are being senselessly taken at the hands of devastating overdoses. Between January 2016 and September 2019, there have been more than 14,700 apparent opioid-related deaths. Flood: The Overdose Epidemic in Canada is a documentary that aims to reduce the stigma around substance use disorder (SUD) and inspire others to take action. “From major cities to small towns this issue has taken lives, ruined families and flooded our communities.” Location: Huntsville, ON Date: August 31, 2022 You’re invited to engage in important dialogue and help shine a light on the overdose epidemic in Canada. Join us for a free screening of this poignant documentary, followed by a panel discussion with the filmmaker Adam D’Addario, local experts and individuals with lived experience. Learn more: www.uwsimcoemuskoka.ca/flood-documentary/ Birth of a Family About the documentary: In this deeply moving feature-length documentary, three sisters and a brother meet for the first time. Removed from their young Dene mother during the infamous Sixties Scoop, they were separated as infants and adopted into families across North America. Betty Ann, Esther, Rosalie, and Ben were only four of the 20,000 Indigenous Canadian children taken from their families between 1955 and 1985, to be either adopted into white families or live in foster care. As the four siblings piece together their shared history, their connection deepens, and their family begins to take shape. Location: Orillia, ON Date: September 28, 2022 You’re invited to join us for a free screening of this moving documentary, followed by a panel discussion with a local Elder, Sixties Scoop Survivors and the Wiijinokiiwag Program Facilitator for a discussion about how we can create a better future for all people. Learn more: www.uwsimcoemuskoka.ca/birth-of-a-family/