Events and Conferences

The Association of Ontario Midwives is offering two new professional development sessions in January.  A special full day registration rate is offered to those attending both morning and afternoon workshops. Spots are limited so register today!

Providing Perinatal Care for Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer (LBQ) Women and their Families

Friday, January 21, 2011
8:00am - 1:00pm

Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto
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This half day session with take a multidisciplinary approach in working towards culturally competent and clinically appropriate perinatal care for LBQ women and their families. The social environment in which LBQ women create and raise families will frame discussion around increasing perinatal care providers' awareness of LBQ women's needs and concerns, as well as specific sexual and reproductive health issues they face.

Providing Perinatal Care for Trans Clients and their Families

Friday, January 21, 2011
12:15pm - 5:15pm

Westin Harbour Castle, Toronto
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Canadian Institutes of Health Research Café Scientifique
Thinking Women, Reforming Health Care
Tuesday, January 11th 2011, 6:30 p.m.
Gladstone Hotel
1214 Queen Street West, Toronto
Please RSVP: jyotip@yorku.ca

Health care reform continues to challenge our decision makers and ourselves as citizens, family members, and care providers. Over the past decade, Women and Health Care Reform has monitored and analyzed reforms within the Canadian health care system. In order to influence change we first need to know what is happening in health care reforms and what these reforms mean for women as a group and for particular groups of women.

Why is health care reform a women's issue?
What are the issues for women?
Which women are affected in what ways?

Please join us for this free event presented by Women and Health Care Reform.
Refreshments will be served.

Speakers:
Dr. Barbara Clow, Executive Director, Atlantic Centre of Excellence for Women's Health
Dr. Beth Jackson, Manager, Research and Knowledge Development, Public Health Agency of Canada
Ann Pederson, Director, British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health

Moderator:
Dr. Pat Armstrong, CHSRF/CIHR Chair Health Services and Nursing Research, Dept. of Sociology, York University

CIHR Café Scientifique

Women and Health Care Reform

The Next Wave of Conversations with Today’s Top Innovators

March 22 - 25, 2011

Delta Chelsea Hotel, 33 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, Ontario M5G 1Z4

The focus of the Canadian Domestic Violence Conference 2 is on helpful conversations with those who perpetrate abuse, those who are abused, or those who have both abused and are abused in the same relationship. These conversations occur in women's shelters, Partner Abuse Response (PAR) programs, probation offices, victim services offices, counselling centres, private practice. The focus of this Conference is to help foster effective conversations with women and men about domestic violence in these various professional contexts.

CLICK HERE for conference schedule.

CLICK HERE to register online.

It’s time to register!
Deadline: January 10, 2011

For the 7th consecutive year on February 14th, the National Day of Action, girls and young women veer from the usual Valentine’s Day activities, and unite to create action-oriented projects that raise awareness about the issues affecting them and their communities.

Who can participate?

Everyone who is a registered member of Girls Action’s National Network. You can register to become a member at the same time as you apply for the National Day of Action. 

For more information, visit the Girls Action Foundation website.

WHEN: January 17th, 2011

WHERE: St. Lawrence Hall, Toronto ON

WHO: All health professionals, policy makers, legislators, educators, media and anyone with an interest in understanding and ending the stigma against excess weight

Weight bias and discrimination is widespread among the public, health professionals, media, policy makers and employers. Overweight and obesity are often viewed as the result of making poor choices, or a lack of willpower and self control, and not as the complex conditions they are. The direct implications for the health of those struggling with excess weight are profound.

The Canadian Obesity Network- Réseau canadien en obésité (CON-RCO) seeks to address this important issue by engaging influential thought leaders representing media, education, employers, healthcare systems, law and decision makers to review the evidence on the extent and consequences of weight bias on Canadians.

The first-ever Canadian Summit on Weight Bias and Discrimination will be co-hosted with PREVNet (the Promoting Relationships and Eliminating Violence Network), and supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Public Health Agency of Canada.

Click here for more information and to register for this event.

MODERATOR: André Picard: One of Canada's top health and public policy
observers and commentators; Globe and Mail columnist

Media credentials available from Brad Hussey, CON-RCO Communications
Manager, at hussey@obesitynetwork.ca/ 905-628-7778.

WOMEN'S HEALTH:  PRACTICE & POLICY SERIES
BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre and the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health are hosting this lunch hour presentation, Tuesday, December 14, 2010, noon-1:00 pm:

The Nurse Practitioner Clinics, BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre

Presenters:
Diane Middagh, MN, NP(F)
The Heart Program for Women,
Nurse Practitioner Clinics, BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre

Natasha Prodan-Bhalla, MN, NP(A)
The Heart Program for Women,
Nurse Practitioner Clinics, BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre

Lenore Riddell, MSN, NP(F)
Nurse Practitioner/Senior Practice Leader,
Women's Programs, BC Women's Hospital & Health Centre

To download the flyer, please go to BCCEWH.

Thursday December 9, 2010 @ 7PM EST

Canadian Breast Cancer Network will be offering 10 online support and information sessions over the next year and a half. These sessions will be geared towards priority issues as identified by young women breast cancer survivors. Each session will be one hour in length and will consist of a 30 minute presentation by an expert on the selected subject, followed by 30 minutes of discussion and interaction between the presenter and participants. These sessions will have an online visual component and a teleconference verbal communications component. Space will be limited to 23 participants per session so make sure you register in advance to reserve your space. Participants will need to have access to the internet and a phone line in order to access these sessions.

For more information, visit their website.

The Faculty of Community Services, Ryerson University will host the Promoting Health Equity: Action on the Social Determinants of Health conference February 11-12, 2011. This conference aims to bring together community and agency partners, undergraduate and graduate students, health and social service professionals/workers, researchers, academics, government and policy and decision makers to share and exchange knowledge, and to generate the creation of new partnerships in research, education, and practice that focus on health equity and action on the social determinants of health across diverse communities.

With Rosella Melanson, Executive Director, New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women
Thursday, December 2, 2010, 12 noon to 1:30 pm
Crowne Plaza Lord Beaverbrook, Fredericton
In English with simultaneous translation

Sweden recently evaluated its 10-year-old law which criminalizes only the sex buyer, and classifies prostitution as a form of violence against women.
Melanson visited Sweden last month at the invitation of the Swedish Institute. The need to pursue the reflection on this issue is evident – is it work, exploitation, violence?

Light lunch provided.
FREE but you must pre-register: email your name, phone, group/work affiliation to: acswcccf@gnb.ca
Wear NO SCENTS
New Brunswick Advisory Council on the Status of Women

The Joint Chair in Women’s Studies for Carleton University and the University of Ottawa invites you to a panel on Prostitution and the Criminal Code about the recent Superior Court decision that struck down three key sections of the criminal code on prostitution.

When: Monday November 29, 2010
Time: 1:30-4:00 pm
Where:Porter Hall, 2^nd floor, University Centre, Carleton University

This panel will include:
Valerie Scott, Executive Director of SPOC (Sex Professionals of Canada), one of the three women who brought forward this legal challenge
Émilie Laliberté, Director General of Stella, (a Montreal organization by and for sex workers)
Krysta Williams, Lead Youth Advocate, Native Youth Sexual Health Network
Alan N. Young, Professor, Osgoode Law School, York University, the lawyer who argued this case
Chris Bruckert, Associate Professor of Criminology, University of Ottawa – and Member of POWER (Prostitutes of Ottawa-Gatineau Work, Educate and Resist)

A question and answer period will follow.
The event will be bilingual with simultaneous translation.
Free admission.

INFO: Pamela Walker, 613-520-2600 X 1729 or Hélène Boudreault, 613-520-6644