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Eleanor’s Court is a 25-unit supportive affordable housing development funded by the Rapid Housing Initiative, Reaching Home, and the Province of Nova Scotia.
Eleanor’s Court is harm reduction housing. Harm reduction is an evidence-based approach that seeks to reduce the health and social harms associated with addiction and substance use without necessarily requiring people who use substances to abstain.
Instead, this approach provides housing first, along with access to peer, medical, and social services that supports people to make positive change without coercion, discrimination or judgement.
Research shows those who engage in harm reduction services are more likely to participate in ongoing treatment as a result.
The building is located on the corner of Charlotte and York streets in the Northend of Sydney.
The 25 individual apartments, including two accessible units, each have a private washroom, kitchenette/living area, and bedroom. The building has a shared kitchen and social area, laundry facilities, and spaces for services and programming including counselling, a managed alcohol program, peer support, and housing support.
The Ally Centre of Cape Breton provides around-the-clock staffing, programming and supports for the residents at Eleanor’s Court. New Dawn owns and maintains the building.
The current housing environment in CBRM and beyond demands that New Dawn turn our attention to new development opportunities in a strategic, measured, and informed manner.
We also seek to provide helpful resources that can educate and inform those in the community who may feel uncertain or have questions about the changes occurring.
The Ally Centre of Cape Breton announced that they will honour the late Eleanor Young in the naming of the Rapid Housing Initiative building at the Nova Scotia Native Women’s Association’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls, and Two-Spirit Awareness Walk on Red Dress Day.
Eleanor was a daughter, a mother, a sister and a friend. She was an Indigenous woman who was proud of her culture and loved her community of Eskasoni. Sadly, like thousands before her, Eleanor found herself among the list of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women here in Canada.
Eleanor’s situation of homelessness increased her chances significantly of being another victim. This is why May 5th, Red Dress Day, was selected to announce the name of the Rapid Housing Initiative building as “Eleanor’s Court”.
“Eleanor’s Court will not only offer safe, affordable, supportive housing to some of Eleanor’s closest friends, but will also serve as a reminder of how important housing is in protecting our most vulnerable people.”
Christine Porter, Executive Director of the Ally Centre of Cape Breton
The naming of the building was selected by the clients of the Ally Centre, the community that supported Eleanor here in Sydney. Eleanor slept in a tent, however she ate, showered, laughed and loved at the Ally Centre. This was her community and they all felt the pain of her loss. Eleanor’s mother, Ronalda Denny, made the announcement alongside Christine Porter from the Ally Centre of Cape Breton. Denny says that Eleanor would be honored to have the building named in her memory. She is also grateful that her daughter will not be forgotten and says “I still mourn her everyday”.
“As we reflect on and honor the missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls on Red Dress Day, we encourage residents of our community to think about Eleanor’s story and the impact homelessness has on our neighbors, friends and family,” says Porter.
As a member of the non-profit New Dawn Enterprises family, all profits generated are reinvested back into our community to support programs such as New Dawn Meals on Wheels which delivers over 20,000 meals annually to those in need. Clients of New Dawn are indirectly supporting our community and for that, we thank you for choosing us!
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Almost 43% of Village occupants have secured permanent housing
AUDIO: Eleanor’s Court provides stability and a place to call home for 25 residents
VIDEO: The CBC’s Anna Rak shares the story of Loretta Gould’s portrait, “Honouring Eleanor”
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Eymu’ti’k Unama’ki, newte’jk l’uiknek te’sikl Mi’kmawe’l maqamikall mna’q iknmuetumittl. Ula maqamikew wiaqi-wikasik Wantaqo’tie’l aqq I’lamatultimkewe’l Ankukamkewe’l Mi’kmaq aqq Eleke’wuti kisa’matultisnik 1726ek.
We are in Unama’ki, one of the seven traditional and unceded ancestral territories of the people of Mi’kma’ki. This territory is covered by the Treaties of Peace and Friendship which the Mi’kmaq first signed with the British Crown in 1726.
Ketu’-keknuite’tmek aqq kepmite’tmek ula tela’matultimkip wjit maqamikew ta’n etekl mtmo’taqne’l. Ula tett, ula maqamikek, etl-lukutiek l’tunen aqq apoqntmnen apoqnmasimk aqq weliknamk Unama’ki.
We wish to recognize and honour this understanding of the lands on which we reside. It is from here, on these lands, that we work to create and support a culture of self-reliance and vibrancy.
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