Girls Action Foundation is launching 3 new backgrounders intended to support the work of facilitators of girls’ empowerment groups, programmers and organizations working with girls and young women.
The backgrounders offer current information, resources, practical tools, web-based materials and sample group activities on:
Join in to learn more about these resources and related tools that are grounded in a study of Girls’ Perspectives on Girls’ Groups and Healthy Living (2011) which explored promising practices in girl-centred health promotion (See English and French reports).
These backgrounders were developed in collaboration with the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (BCCEWH), the Girls Action Foundation and the Canadian Association for the Advancement of Women and Sport and Physical Activity (CAAWS).
Speakers
Sonia Anand, MD, PhD, Canada Research Chair in Ethnic Diversity and Cardiovascular Disease; Heart & Stroke Foundation Ontario/Michael DeGroote Chair in Population Health Research; Eli Lily/May Cohen Chair in Women’s Health Research, McMaster University
Diliana Chopova, MPH, Project Evaluator, Fraser Health
Karin Humphries, MSc, MBA, DSc, UBC-Heart and Stroke Foundation Professor in Women's Cardiovascular Health; Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UBC
Sharon Jinkerson-Brass, Community Health Liaison, Pacific Association of First Nations’ Women, member of Key First Nation, Saskatchewan
Nadia Khan, MD, MSc, FRCPC, General Internist, St Paul’s Hospital; Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, UBC; Career Scientist, Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research; Clinician Scientist, Center for Health Evaluation and Outcomes Sciences
Diane Middagh, MN/NP (F), Nurse Practitioner, Nurse Practitioner Clinics, BC Women’s Hospital & Health Care Centre
Ann Pederson, MSc, PhD(c), Director, BC Centre for Excellence for Women’s Health
Denise Penaloza, RN, MSN, Program Coordinator, Maxxine Wright Community Health Centre, Fraser Health
Natasha Prodan-Bhalla, MN/NP (A), Nurse Practitioner, The Heart Program for Women, Nurse Practitioner Clinics, BC Women’s, Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Nursing, UBC
Program
8:00 am Refreshments & Registration
8:30 am Welcome:
Opening by Coast Salish Elder, Jan Christilaw, President, BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre, Arlene Paton, Assistant Deputy Minister, Population and Public Health, Ministry of Health
8:45 am Setting the Context:
Karin Humphries, Heart Disease in BC Women, Nadia Khan, Prevention of Heart Disease in Women, Sonia Anand, Sex and Gender as Determinants of Heart Health
10:15 am Refreshment break
10:45 am A Gender-Sensitive Framework to Promoting Heart Health:
Ann Pederson
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11:30 am Lunch
12:30 pm Applying the Framework: Lessons from BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre
Natasha Prodan-Bhalla, Diane Middagh, Sharon Jinkerson-Brass
Lessons from Fraser Health
Denise Penaloza, Diliana Chopova
2:00 pm Refreshment Break
2:15 pm Bringing it All Together: Interactive Group Session
3:45 pm Closing Remarks
Jan Christilaw, President, BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre
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This Special Grand Rounds is a self-approved group learning activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification program of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
Summit Partners
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BC Women’s Hospital & Health Centre
BC Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health
BC Healthy Living Alliance
BC Ministry of Health
First Nations Health Authority
Fraser Health Authority
Heart & Stroke Foundation of BC & Yukon
Providence Healthcare Research Institute
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Shining a Light on Canada’s Multi-layered Approach on FASD Prevention
A session on promoting women’s health and preventing Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) will be held in Vancouver on the evening of February 28th as a part of the 5th International Conference on Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder.
Click on the flyer to download
FASD prevention involves much more than providing information about the risks of alcohol use in pregnancy. Over the past two decades, Canada has developed a multi-layered approach to FASD prevention (FASDCANADIANPERSPECTIVES_PHAC). This session will use current examples of FASD-related policies, programs, and initiatives from across Canada. The session will highlight the work of individuals working in a range of contexts, including government, university and community-based research, program development and service provision, community advocacy, and alcohol policy development. It will also provide the opportunity for participants to collectively discuss principles levels of prevention, and the range of people who need to work together to achieve the goals of improving both women’s and child health in the prevention of FASD.
The session has the goal of inspiring people from across Canada and internationally to engage in effective work on FASD prevention.
The session is organized by the Network Action Team of FASD Prevention, a part of the CanFASD Research Network.
To register for the conference and the session: http://www.interprofessional.ubc.ca/FASd/
Webinar: Girls, Physical Activity and Culture
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012 at 12PM (EST)
Facilitators:
Nancy Pool and Ginny Gonneau
British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health
About this webinar: In collaboration with the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (BCCEWH), Girls Action Foundation is developing a series of knowledge-building backgrounders for organizations and people working with girls and young women. The backgrounders will feature practical tools as well as resources for facilitators. We have drafted the third backgrounder on girls, physical activity and culture. The resource also includes sample activities to generate discussion with girls around these issues. As experienced girls’ programmers and facilitators, we are inviting you to participate in this special webinar in order to review and improve the content of this resource. We welcome your feedback and knowledge to this project.
Webcast Book Launch
Becoming Trauma Informed
edited by Nancy Poole and Lorraine Greaves
Friday November 2, 2012
Power Point slides and recording of the webcast.
Becoming Trauma Informed describes trauma-informed practice at the individual, organizational and systemic levels. The editors and authors bring unique perspectives from various settings and from the diverse groups with which they work, sharing how trauma-informed principles have been integrated into different mental health and addiction treatment and social service environments.
Media Release
*Le français suit
What cuts will mean for women's health research: Montreal
October 25, 2012 - Directors of six federally-funded women's health organizations slated to lose their funding effective March 2013 will address a national conference of women's health researchers on Monday in Montreal. The funding program on the chopping block was originally set up to carry out policy-based non-clinical research on women's health and to provide action-oriented policy advice reflecting community as well as academic concerns.
"This loss of funding is not just about a group of women losing their jobs. It is about the loss of an important contribution to the world of women's health research in this country. And it's about women losing power to advocate for their own health," noted Lydya Assayag, Director of the Réseau québécois d'action pour la santé des femmes (RQASF), one of the networks losing their federal funding and one of the speakers at Monday's conference organized by the CIHR Institute for Gender and Health.
The directors will address some of the issues still needing work in women's health research and reflect on what this funding loss represents in their panel presentation on Monday.
Organizations affected by the cuts, in addition to the RQASF, include: the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health, the Canadian Women's Health Network, the National Network on Environments and Women's Health and the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence. Also lost are two working groups: Women and Health Care Reform and Women and Health Protection.
Event details:
"Advancing Excellence in Gender, Sex and Health Research", conference of the CIHR Institute for Gender and Health, Hilton Montréal Bonaventure, 900 de la Gauchetière Street West
Panel: Cleaning House: Researchers and Advocates Reflect on Enduring and Emerging Challenges in Women's Health Research, Monday October 29, 2012, 13:30 - 15:00
Media contacts:
Canadian Women's Health Network: Alexandra Merrill - 204-470-1825
Réseau québécois d'action pour la santé des femmes: Lydya Assayag - 514-877-3189,
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About the Canadian Women's Health Network: The Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN) was created in 1993 as a voluntary national organization to improve the health and lives of girls and women in Canada and the world by collecting, producing, distributing and sharing knowledge, ideas, education, information, resources, strategies and inspirations.
The CWHN partners with the Centres of Excellence for Women's Health and receives funding from Health Canada.
Communiqué de presse
Les conséquences des compressions sur la recherche en santé des femmes : Montréal
Le 25 octobre 2012 -
Les directrices de six organisations œuvrant en santé des femmes subventionnées par le gouvernement fédéral et dont le financement sera supprimé à partir du mois de mars 2013 prendront la parole, lundi prochain à Montréal, dans le cadre d'une conférence nationale réunissant des chercheuses et chercheurs du domaine de la santé des femmes. Le programme de subventions visé par les compressions était prévu à l'origine pour effectuer des recherches non cliniques fondées sur les politiques portant sur la santé des femmes et pour formuler des suggestions en matière de politiques axées sur l'action et reflétant les préoccupations des communautés et du milieu de la recherche universitaire.
« Cette perte de financement ne fait pas que toucher un groupe de femmes qui perdront leur emploi. Elle entraîne au pays la disparition d'une importante contribution dans le monde de la recherche en santé des femmes et la perte d'un levier qui permettait aux femmes de défendre leurs propres interest dans le domaine de la santé », soutient Lydya Assayag, directrice du Réseau québécois d'action pour la santé des femmes (RQASF), l'un des réseaux qui perdront leur subvention fédérale. Mme Assayag figure parmi les invitées qui prendront la parole lors de la conférence de lundi, organisée par l'Institut de la santé des femmes et des hommes des IRSC.
Dans la présentation qu'elles livreront lundi, les directrices aborderont certains des enjeux sur lesquels il est toujours nécessaire de se pencher dans le domaine de la recherche en santé des femmes et proposeront une réflexion sur ce que représente cette perte de financement.
Les organisations touchées par les compressions, outre le RQASF, sont notamment le Centre d'excellence de l'Atlantique pour la santé des femmes, le Centre d'excellence pour la santé des femmes - région de la Colombie-Britannique, le Réseau canadien pour la santé des femmes, le Réseau pancanadien sur la santé des femmes et le milieu et le Centre d'excellence pour la santé des femmes - région des Prairies. Deux groupes de travail devront également mettre fin à leurs activités : Les femmes et la réforme en santé et Action pour la protection de la santé des femmes.
Détails de la rencontre :
« Pour l'excellence dans la recherche sur le genre, le sexe et la santé », conférence de l'Institut de la santé des femmes et des hommes des IRSC, hôtel Hilton Montréal Bonaventure, 900, rue de la Gauchetière Ouest.
Table ronde : « Difficultés persistantes et nouvelles dans la recherche sur la santé des femmes : réflexions de chercheurs et de défenseurs de la cause », lundi 29 octobre 2012, 13 h 30 - 15 h.
Personnes-ressources :
Réseau canadien pour la santé des femmes : Alexandra Merrill - 204 470-1825
Réseau québécois d'action pour la santé des femmes : Lydya Assayag - 514-877-3189, poste 28
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À propos du Réseau canadien pour la santé des femmes: Le Réseau canadien pour la santé des femmes (RCSF) a été créé en 1993 en tant qu'organisme pancanadien bénévole dans le but d'améliorer la santé et la vie des filles et des femmes au Canada et dans le monde entier, et ce, en recueillant, en produisant, en diffusant et en partageant des connaissances, des idées, des données éducatives, de l'information, des ressources, des stratégies et des sources d'inspiration.
Le RCSF fait équipe avec les Centres d'excellence pour la santé des femmes et reçoit des fonds du Santé Canada.
Improving Women’s Health with Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis
Thursday, October 25th, 2012
YWCA Elm Centre - Nancy's Auditorium, 87 Elm Street, Toronto
Join British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health and Ontario Women's Health Network for an introduction to two sex- and gender-based analysis (SGBA) resources, including an e-learning website on sex- and gender-based analysis, Rising to the Challenge and The Source.
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You’ll learn how to apply SGBA, including the core concepts of sex, gender, diversity and equity and the SGBA process, in research and policy.
Hands-on exercises will help researchers, policy makers, health planners, and students to identify sources of women's health research from all Canadian provinces and territories. |
Presented by the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health and Ontario Women's Health Network in partnership with Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health. Funding provided by CIHR.
Let us know what you think!
Thank you to everyne who completed our e-survey on a draft framework
for effective health promotion for women!
The survey is now closed. Thank you participating!
The Canadian Institutes of Health Research Team in Sex, Gender and Health Promotion needs your input. We would like to ensure that the key principles and strategic directions outlined in the framework will be relevant and helpful in multiple contexts. The framework for effective health promotion for women is designed to help individuals and organizations in a variety of sectors influence health promotion policy, practice and research to include issues of sex, gender, diversity, and equity.
The team – PhiWomen- was established to integrate gender and equity considerations into health promotion activities in order to improve the health of women and girls. We are currently engaged in a multi-step consultation process to generate feedback on the framework so as to ensure that it is useful to potential users and serves the needs of different stakeholders.
To find out more about our work, please visit the PhiWomen website or send an email to info@promotinghealthinwomen.ca
Thank you for taking the time to fill in our survey. Your input is greatly appreciated!
Webinar
Our favourite drug:
Why are women & girls drinking so much?
Thursday June 7, 2012
Listen to the recording!
This free was presented by the Canadian Women's Health Network and the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health.
Alcohol is a favourite drug for many people, and women may be having more problems with alcohol than many of us would like to think. Journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston spent a year talking with women, researchers and policy-makers to learn why women drink, and how alcohol affects us differently from men. The results are unsettling.
Dowsett Johnston learned that there is a global rise in women's drinking-what one eminent researcher calls a "global epidemic." For Canadian women, rates of risky drinking rose significantly for in recent years. (Risky drinking is defined as four drinks or more on at least one occasion in the past week.)
Women drink to ease ease anxiety, deal with trauma, and much more. Risky drinking leads to a wide variety of short and long-term health challenges. Is this a new problem, or are we just becoming aware of it? What's the role of alcohol marketing? How can we help women define the blurry line between social drinking and alcohol addiction?
In this webinar, Canadian Women's Health Network (CWHN) Executive Director Anne Rochon Ford interviewed Ann Dowsett Johnston about her research, including questions and comments from viewers.
An award-winning Canadian journalist, Ann Dowsett Johnston was the recipient of the Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy 2011. The fellowship culminated in a 12-part series on Women and Alcohol, published in the Toronto Star. She is currently working on a book on the same subject.
Production of this event has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.
Webinaire
Une substance omniprésente :
Pourquoi les femmes et les filles boivent-elles tant d'alcool ?
Jeudi 7 juin 2012
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Un événement gratuit présenté par le Réseau canadien pour la santé des femmes et le Centre d'excellence de la Colombie-Britanniquepour la santé des femmes
Présenté en anglais
L'alcool est une substance très présente dans la vie de beaucoup de gens, et les femmes ont peut-être plus de problèmes de consommation que nombre d'entre nous le croiraient. La journaliste Ann Dowsett Johnston a passé une année à interviewer des femmes, des chercheurs et des décideurs pour connaître les raisons qui poussent les femmes à consommer et les effets de cette consommation chez celles-ci, différents de ceux recensés chez les hommes. Les résultats sont troublants.
Mme Dowsett Johnston a constaté que le taux de consommation d'alcool chez les femmes est à la hausse à l'échelle mondiale, un phénomène qu'une éminente chercheuse a étiqueté « d'épidémie mondiale ». Chez les Canadiennes, les taux de consommation à risque ont augmenté de façon significative dans les dernières années. (Une consommation à risque est définie comme une consommation de quatre boissons alcoolisées ou plus à au moins une occasion au cours de la dernière semaine).
Les femmes consomment de l'alcool pour soulager l'anxiété, composer avec un traumatisme et bien plus. La consommation à risque entraîne un large éventail de troubles de santé à court et à long termes. S'agit-il d'un nouveau problème ou en prenons-nous davantage conscience? Quel rôle la mise en marché des boissons alcoolisées joue-t-elle? Comment pouvons-nous aider les femmes à déterminer la ligne de démarcation entre une consommation sociale d'alcool et une dépendance à cette substance?
Dans le cadre de ce webinaire, Anne Rochon Ford, directrice exécutive du Réseau canadien pour la santé des femmes (RCSF), invitais Ann Dowsett Johnston à parler de sa recherche et à répondre aux questions et aux commentaires des participantes et des participants.
Une journaliste canadienne primée, Ann Dowsett Johnston a reçu la bourse Atkinson en affaires publiques en 2011. Cette bourse a donné lieu à une série de 12 articles sur les femmes et l'alcool, publiés dans le Toronto Star. Mme Dowsett Johnston travaille présentement à la rédaction d'un livre sur le sujet.
La réalisation de cet événement est possible grâce à l'octroi d'une subvention de Santé Canada. Les opinions exprimées dans les présentes ne reflètent pas nécessairement celles de Santé Canada.
Just released!
May 2012
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Health Promotion in Canada
Critical Perspectives on Practice,
3rd Edition
Edited by Irving Rootman, Sophie Dupéré, Ann Pederson, and Michel O’Neill
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Health Promotion in Canada: Critical Perspectives on Practice is a comprehensive profile of the history and future of health promotion in Canada. This third edition maintains the critical, sociological, and historical perspective of the previous two editions but with a greater focus on health promotion practice.
Thoroughly updated and reorganized, the book now contains 18 chapters by prominent academics, researchers, and practitioners, as well as concluding thoughts by Ilona Kickbusch, one of the key actors of the global health promotion movement for over 30 years. The authors cover a broad range of topics, including key theories and concepts in health promotion; ecological approaches; Aboriginal approaches; health inequalities; reflexive practice; ethics; the Canadian health promotion experience in a global context; and issues, populations, and settings as entry points for intervention. The emphasis throughout is on the links between theory, research, and practice. Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking discussion questions and carefully chosen resources for further study, making this an ideal text for courses in health sciences, nursing, and related disciplines.
Irving Rootman has been working in the field of health promotion in government and academia for more than 30 years as a researcher, research manager, program manager, educator, and author. Sophie Dupéré is a professor in the Faculté des sciences infirmières at Université Laval. She has been involved in the field of health promotion in Canada and internationally for the last 15 years working as a nurse, consultant, researcher, and activist. Ann Pederson is co-director of the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. Michel O’Neill is a private consultant and has worked in health promotion in a variety of positions locally, nationally, and globally since 1974, including 30 years at the Faculté des sciences infirmières at Université Laval.
Press Release
April 23, 2012
Latest cuts: Another federal ministry announces program closure - the end of the Women’s Health Contribution Program at Health Canada
One more women’s program falls victim to federal government budget cuts; 16-year program provided essential evidence and information on women’s health; group argues for need to consider how women are harmed by cuts to programs and services.
Six federally-funded organizations devoted to research and communication in women’s health learned this week that their funding will end March 31, 2013.
The Program was critical to funding innovative social policy research, building community partnerships and providing important mentorship opportunities for students in women’s health. Within a year, the affected organizations will be forced to either close their doors permanently or attempt to find funding elsewhere.
The Women’s Health Contribution Program (WHCP) has supported: Le Réseau québécois d’action pour la santé des femmes (RQASF), the Canadian Women’s Health Network (CWHN), the Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (ACEWH), the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health (BCCEWH), the Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE) and the National Network on Environments and Women’s Health (NNEWH), located across the country from Vancouver to Halifax.
“The effect of this decision by Health Canada is yet another strong sign that the federal government is pulling away from its responsibility to gender equality. The work funded through the WHCP has been crucial to ensuring that Canadian women have had access to the best evidence and policy advice on women’s health issues, through research that recognized that social and environmental determinants of health are key.“ said Chi Nguyen, Chair of the Board of the Canadian Women’s Health Network.
To download the full press release please click here.
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Communiqué de presse
Le 23 avril 2012
Dernières compressions : Un autre ministère fédéral annonce l’abolition d’un programme qui marque la fin du Programme de contribution pour la santé des femmes à Santé Canada
Un autre programme pour les femmes est victime des coupes budgétaires du gouvernement fédéral; le programme qui existait depuis 16 ans fournissait des données probantes et de l’information essentielle sur la santé des femmes; le groupe soutient qu’il est nécessaire d’examiner l’effet néfaste des coupes dans les programmes et les services sur les femmes.
Six organisations financées par le gouvernement fédéral se consacrant à la recherche et à la communication d’informations sur la santé des femmes ont appris cette semaine que leur financement allait prendre fin le 31 mars 2013.
Le Programme était crucial au financement de recherches en politique sociale innovatrices, à l’établissement de partenariats communautaires et à l’offre d’occasions importantes de mentorat pour les étudiantes et les étudiants du domaine de la santé des femmes. D’ici une année, les organisations touchées devront fermer leurs portes pour toujours ou tenter de trouver d’autres sources de financement.
Pour télécharger le communiqué de presse, veuillez cliquer ici.
The Spring edition of The Net is now available!
The March edition of The Net, produced by
The International Network of Women Against Tobacco (INWAT), and sponsored by the BC Centre of Excellence for Women's came out just in time for the 15th World Conference on Tobacco or Health in Singapore.
To download your copy, please click here.
WEBINAIRE
La Source, pour la santé des femmes
Mardi
le 13 mars 2012
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Un événement gratuit présenté par le Réseau canadien pour la santé des femmes, en collaboration avec le Centre d'excellence pour la santé des femmes de la Colombie-Britannique
Le webinaire est en français et s'adresse à toutes personnes qui s'intéressent à la santé des Canadiennes.
Venez vous familiariser avec La Source, un centre de ressources virtuel donnant accès à des sources de données, rapports et documents d'analyse en français sur la santé des femmes.
- Présenté par Marie Dussault, courtière de connaissances au Centre d'excellence pour la santé des femmes de la Colombie-Britannique.
- Animé par Anne Rochon Ford, directrice exécutive du Réseau canadien pour la santé des femmes.
Cet événement est possible grâce à l'apport financier de Santé Canada. Les opinions exprimées aux présentations ne reflètent pas nécessairement les vues de Santé Canada.
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WEBINAR
La
Source, for women's health
Tuesday,
March 13, 2012
Listen to the webinar recording (in French only).
A free event presented
by the Canadian
Women's Health Network, in collaboration with the British
Columbia Centre ofExcellence for Women's Health.Presented
in French and intended for anyone interested
inthe health of Canadians.
Join us for an introduction
to La
Source, a web-based resource of Canadian women's health
data sources, reports, and synthesis documents. La Source
helps users incorporate sex and gender into research, policy-making,
and program planning.
- Presented by Marie Dussault,
Knowledge ExchangeCoordinator at the British Columbia
Centre of Excellence for Women's Health.
- Moderated by Anne Rochon
Ford, Executive Director of the Canadian Women's
Health network
Production of this event has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.
Vancouver
Workshop Improving Women’s Health with Sex- and
Gender-Based
Analysis
Wednesday
March 7th, 2012
The BC Centre of
Excellence for Women’s Health invites researchers,
policy makers, health planners, and students to a hands-on
introduction to the following:
Rising to the Challenge, a new e-Learning resource on
Sex- and Gender-Based Analysis.
The Source, a Pan-Canadian resource of women’s health data sources, reports, and review documents.
This event is offered in partnership with the Altantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health and the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence.
Webcast
Girls' Empowerment Groups and Healthy Living
Friday, March 9 2012
Listen to the webcast
View the power point slides
Join the Girls Action Foundation and the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health!
This panel of speakers will report on the findings of a one-year research project done in
partnership with the Girls Action Foundation. Learn about what girls say they get from
group programming and about promising practices in girl-centred health promotion.
This event is being held to coincide with International Women’s Day events occurring throughout March. This year’s theme is CONNECTING GIRLS, INSPIRING FUTURES.
SystemAction, Canada’s national knowledge exchange network in support of the National Treatment Strategy, has lined up our second free webinar of 2012:
Trauma-informed Practice
in Mental Health and Substance Use Fields
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
View the presentation
Download the Webinar PowerPoint Slides:
English - Français
Presenter: Nancy Poole
The Essentials of Trauma Informed Care
About Nancy Poole:
Nancy Poole is the Director of Research and Knowledge Translation at the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health. She is well known for her work on research, training and policy initiatives related to women’s substance use, mental health, and experience of violence with governments and organizations on local, provincial and national levels. She is the co-editor of an upcoming book on trauma-informed care to be published by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.
