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Charlotte Hrenchuk
Charlotte Hrenchuk moved to the Yukon from Alberta in 1988. She studied fine art and anthropology in university, trained in the theatre and worked as a costume designer and puppeteer. She and her husband adopted twin girls and a boy from Sierra Leone and after taking a few years to be with them she started working part time for the Yukon Status of Women Council (YSWC). She organized a reproductive health conference, and then started applying for more grants to complete more projects. She joined the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition about 2007. She initiated the after-hours program offered on the weekends so women under the influence of drugs or alcohol can have a hot meal and a nap at the Victoria Faulkner Women’s Centre in Whitehorse.1)
Hrenchuk started as the coordinator at the YSWC about 2001 where she works on issues that affect women’s lives. The Yukon Status of Women Council is a non-profit organization that has been working on women’s equality issues since 1973. Hrenchuk’s work for the Council focuses on poverty, homelessness and housing, and violence against women. She designed and implemented two pan-territorial research projects on homelessness, the only studies of their kind in the north [released in 2007]. She co-designed and implemented the Yukon Court Watch program to help victims of violence going through the justice system and furthered that work in a Yukon Advocate Case Review project. Hrenchuk is a co-chair of the Yukon Anti-Poverty Coalition, a member of the of the Yukon Planning Group on Homelessness, chair of Housing Action for Yukon Youth, on the Board of the Hidden History Society Yukon, and a member of the Minister’s Advisory Committee on the Homelessness Partnering Strategy.2)
She was working on homelessness and mental health when she first heard of the exploitation of Yukon women and girls. She started to focus on conducting qualitative research into both sex trafficking and the sex trade. Hrenchuk received the Governor General’s Award in Commemoration of the Person’s Case in 2018.3)
1)
Rhiannon Russell, “2017 Kick-Ass Activist: Charlotte Hrenchuk.” This Magazine (online), 18 January 2017, 2018 website: https://this.org/2017/01/18/2017-kick-ass-activist-charlotte-hrenchuk/
2)
Canadian Women’s Foundation, “Charlotte Hrenchuk.” 2018 website: https://www.canadianwomen.org/our-work/gender-equality-network-canada/leaders/charlotte-hrenchuk/
3)
Julian Gignac, “Whitehorse women’s advocate earns Governor General’s award.” Yukon News (Whitehorse), 24 October 2018.
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