Canada’s Top 40 Under 40 Honoree
2018
Physician
London Intercommunity Health Centre
Dr. Andrea Sereda is a family physician who practices street outreach medicine, caring for homeless women who are involved in the survival sex trade. She provides care through the London Intercommunity Health Centre in London, ON. Andrea provides healthcare within the program “Street Level Women at Risk” (SLWAR). SLWAR is a Housing First model of care that strives to rapidly house women while concurrently addressing a woman’s physical health, mental health and substance use problems. SLWAR is a program unique within Canada. SLWAR brings together a team of women supporting women, comprised of Andrea, Sgt Amy Birtch of the London Police and a hard-working group of women acting as street outreach workers and case managers. SLWAR is seeing profound successes in their work of housing and caring for chronically homeless women.
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