YWCA Centre for Women & Families

Building Hope: YWCA Regina’s Self-Sustaining Hub for Women and Families

Designed in association with 1080 Architecture Planning + Interiors

This new facility has been designed to be self-sustaining, providing the YWCA Regina and its partner organizations the ability to provide a variety of services to the community in a collaborative and cohesive model. This allows for synergies to form between each partner and provides strength and stability to the partner organizations.

The facility will functions as a hub for a variety of services for women and families, including residences, a crisis shelter, YWCA Outreach services, Mobile Crisis, Regina Sexual Assault, childcare, and multipurpose space including rentable space, flexible rooms for mobile health, and financial services as well as a community café and retail enterprise consignment store.

A partnership with All Nations Hope was created early in the project design and evolved to include a sacred ceremonial space, as well as gathering room and traditional healing spaces. Understanding this project’s complex needs and deep connection to its community, the project team chose to follow a robust pre-design process including precedent studies, facility tours, current state assessment, and community engagement.