Anchor Youth Space Sydney offers youth a place to belong
AUDIO: CBC Radio reporter Brittany Wentzell gets a tour of the newly opened space with youth worker Al Cusack and Youth Advisory Committee members
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AUDIO: CBC Radio reporter Brittany Wentzell gets a tour of the newly opened space with youth worker Al Cusack and Youth Advisory Committee members
AUDIO: Updates on the New Dawn Youth and Family Centre and the Icelandic Prevention Model, two projects working in tandem to reshape the future of Glace Bay, on CBC Radio’s Information Morning
Cape Breton Post, September 15, 2025
Site provides barrier-free access to mental health and wellness services for youth aged 12-25 and their caregivers
AUDIO: New Dawn’s Manager of Early Childhood Education, April Benoit, in conversation with CBC Radio’s Steve Sutherland
We Come from the Sea by Joan Jonas to run at Eltuek Arts Centre and Inverness County Centre for the Arts from August 10 to October 12
Cape Breton Post, August 9, 2025
Almost 43% of Village occupants have secured permanent housing
AUDIO: Photographer Steve Wadden shares inspiration behind his new exhibit on CBC Radio’s Information Morning Cape Breton
Major donors Annette Verschuren and Stan Shibinsky reflect on Eltuek Arts Centre and its first five years
AUDIO: Eleanor’s Court provides stability and a place to call home for 25 residents
AUDIO: New report finds shortfalls in NS government’s progress — Minister acknowledges concerns, is optimistic
Marking 100 years since William Davis was killed in 1925 miners’ strike
VIDEO: The CBC’s Anna Rak shares the story of Loretta Gould’s portrait, “Honouring Eleanor”
Commitment to volunteering is in addition to $1000 donation to the program
Cape Breton’s first Integrated Youth Services site to launch this summer
VIDEO: Miners’ Houses, Glace Bay evokes memories of strike, death and solidarity
AUDIO: New Dawn President & CEO, Erika Shea shares about her life and leadership in Information Morning’s Breakfast Biographies series
AUDIO: Eltuek Arts Centre’s Artistic Director, Melissa Kearney on the return of Lawren Harris’s iconic painting
Anchor Youth Space Cumberland launches in Amherst; Sydney site set to open in June
VIDEO: Efficiency Nova Scotia highlights The Village at Pine Tree Park as part of Nova Scotia’s first net-zero community
Ally Centre, New Dawn team up to put dent in Cape Breton housing crisis
Cape Breton Post, April 28, 2025
DATE: May 1—Jun 28, 2025
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Events Events / Eltuek Gallery 203
Cape Breton Post, April 22, 2025
Supportive living program doubles capacity to meet high demand for youth housing
VIDEO: “This was a parking lot two years ago and now people’s lives will be saved.”
Addressing homelessness requires more than shelter – we need downtowns that welcome everyone and support people where they are.
AUDIO: Meet five people who have chosen to make Cape Breton home
VIDEO: Mariah Baker shares her story of survival with CBC News
Cape Breton Post, March 15, 2025
AUDIO: CBU student Leen El Akhal finds solace in community and connecting with her Palestinian heritage
AUDIO: CBICI manager Nadine Paruch in conversation with CBC Radio’s Steve Sutherland
New Dawn’s Erika Shea recognized by RBC for her inspirational leadership
A flood at the Louisbourg Legion shut down the community’s food program, which serves hundreds of meals a week
New Dawn Child Care Centre, to be located in Glace Bay Youth and Family Centre, will add 49 new child care spaces
AUDIO: The launch of a new exhibit at Eltuek Arts Centre celebrating the life and work of iconic Cape Breton folk artist Murray Gallant featured on Information Morning Cape Breton.
New Dawn president and CEO reflects upon John Whalley’s contributions to Cape Breton. Cape Breton Post, February 1, 2025
AUDIO: CBC Radio reporter Brittany Wentzell visits The Village at Pine Tree Park, where staff and residents share the life-changing impact of the project
“I see their lives changing drastically,” reflects Executive Director of the Ally Centre, Christine Porter.
Cape Breton Post, January 27, 2025
AUDIO: Amanda Rae Storteboom talks new Integrated Youth Services site coming to Sydney
Input essential to the successful development of a local Integrated Youth Services site that fits the needs of Sydney youth (aged 12-25) and their caregivers
Transforming affordable housing with energy efficiency and solar power
Erika Shea and Christine Porter share insights from The Village at Pine Tree Park and Eleanor’s Court as part of Nova Scotia Human Rights Week panel discussion
Cape Breton Post, November 28, 2024
Analysis of a haphazard property tax system and the implications for New Dawn and other non-profit organizations
Erika Shea joins the Reimagining Energy Podcast to share New Dawn’s approach to energy poverty as a nonprofit social enterprise
Tenants find friendship and support in first week at The Village at Pine Tree Park
Subscription-based community solar garden program is first of its kind in Canada
The Village will be a temporary home for 35 community members experiencing homelessness in CBRM
Members of the Affordable Housing and Homelessness Working Group submitted a series of questions to all CBRM mayoral and council candidates by email on October 7. Below are the responses received to date (October 17).
“Leading from a place of love is the secret,” says New Dawn’s President & CEO
To quote Erika Shea, President and CEO of New Dawn Enterprises, “This is a beautiful moment.”
AUDIO: This is a big week for the CBRM Pallet Village. Erika Shea shared the latest on the project ahead of the arrival of the Pallet shelters.
Installation of 35 temporary shelters underway for mid-September opening of CBRM Pallet Village
New vision and new investment required for future of the downtown commercial property
Construction is underway on the site and Pallet shelters are expected to arrive in late July
AUDIO: New Dawn CEO Erika Shea talks progress and plans for the Pine Tree Park Pallet Village set to open in early August
Project funded by the Sustainable Communities Challenge Fund
Cape Breton Post, May 16, 2024
Cape Breton Post, May 14, 2024
VIDEO: Cape Breton meal delivery company launches e-bike program
Against the backdrop of a once booming steel city, the state-of-the-art centre is giving hope to the local creative community.
Erika Shea shares New Dawn’s goal of becoming a net-zero organization.
New multimillion-dollar Glace Bay Youth & Family Centre accounts for “embodied carbon” in its construction.
Below are some answers to questions received since the announcement of Pine Tree Park as the location for the CBRM Pallet Village.
Pause in community markets this year is necessary for the long-term success and growth of our program.
The Glace Bay Youth & Family Centre initiative broke ground on Friday, April 26. CBC Radio reporter Tom Ayers was there.
A transformational project for the community of Glace Bay and beyond marked a milestone on Friday, April 26, with a sod-turning event hosted by the project partners.
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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.
AuCoin Renovations is matching all donations to the New Dawn Youth and Family Centre up to $10,000.
Glace Bay’s young people deserve a safe, welcoming place to learn, grow, and belong. The new Youth & Family Centre is being built for them, and your gift can help open its doors.
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