Resources

The spring issue of CrossCurrents: The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health, focusing on women and substance use, is now available. Published by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health in Toronto, CrossCurrents informs and educates health professionals about the latest issues in the addiction and mental health fields. Stories covered in the women and substance use issue include the childcare barrier to substance use treatment, women-centred strategies for fetal alcohol syndrome prevention, concurrent treatment for eating disorders and substance abuse, HIV-related harm reduction with sex trade workers, the trauma-substance use connection and more.

For a free copy, contact the PWHCE before May 15, 2007. For more information about CrossCurrents, or to subscribe, visit www.camh.net/publications.

From the Canadian Health Network

Knowing what's involved is the best preparation...

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Canada's new Food Guide - choices and flexibility for everyone

From the Canadian Health Network

Eating Well with Canada 's Food Guide is significantly different from the 1992 version...

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04/11/2007

"JABBER", the NAWL e-Journal (Winter 2007)

Link: http://www.nawl.ca/ns/en/Actions/2007WinterEjournal.html

-- HIGHLIGHTS --
NAWL's Valentine to MPs
CAMPUS COCKTAILS with NAWL
Actions for March 8th -- IWD !
NAWL Conference: Mothering in Law
Are YOU a member of NAWL ?
Join NAWL online!

A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities

Women with disabilities often discover that the social stigma of disability and inadequate care are greater barriers to health than the disabilities themselves. A Health Handbook for Women with Disabilities will help women with disabilities overcome these barriers and improve their general health, self-esteem, and abilities to care for themselves and participate in their communities.

Click here to download this book in its entirety!

FAFIA's paper on women and the fiscal imbalance

A copy of this document will also be posted on our website at www.fafia-afai.org .

This document elaborates on how increased federal transfers to the provinces and territories represent a real opportunity for Canada to better comply with its human rights obligations to women, but only if governments agree to develop common standards and designate monies for programs and services on which women heavily rely. It also de-mystifies some of the terms of the current debate and articulates what, in our view, is at stake for women in this discussion.

Did you miss Cosmetics, Chemicals and Breast Cancer? See the lecture online!

International breast cancer activist Jeanne Rizzo, executive director of San Francisco's Breast Cancer Fund, spoke to a standing-room-only crowd of 300 people at last Tuesday's Lanie Melamed Memorial Lecture. If you missed the talk, you can watch it online by clicking http://tinyurl.com/2c3j5f . We will soon have a DVD of the presentation available for borrowing from BCAM's resource library.

Aboriginal Peoples can prevent colorectal cancer rates from rising

From the Canadian Health Network

This is a disease that people can do a lot about...
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Life after death: coping with bereavement

From the Canadian Health Network

There are predictable stages of grief...
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Growing up, taking risks

From the Canadian Health Network

It's normal for teens to experiment, but they can still stay healthy and safe...
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