Calls for Submissions and Participation

A National Conference
Grounding Trauma 2013
May 8 & 9, 2013
Alliston, Ontario, Canada
Pre-conference May 7: Building Bridges: Linking Woman Abuse, Substance Use And Mental Ill Health

Internationally, there is a growing understanding of the numerous and diverse effects of trauma and unresolved grief on individuals and communities. In the last few years there have been many advances in our understanding of how the brain, the body and emotions are connected.  We are more aware of how brain plasticity changes the landscape of therapy, how body awareness is linked to progress, and ways in which we can affect positive change in the lives of youth and adults. It brings hope to our work in new and exciting ways.  We are eager to explore new, emerging, progressive and creative approaches to trauma.

Confirmed presentations include a stream connecting the effects of trauma in the body (Somatic Theory) with Yoga Principles.

Note: The pre-conference agenda is fixed. We are accepting proposals to compliment the theme in the main body of the conference.

Deadline for Submissions: December 14, 2012. You will be notified by February 8, 2013.

For more information, please visit the conference website.

Questions? 1-705-749-6145 or gt@cast-canada.ca

Presented by CAST Canada.

A researcher at Mount Saint Vincent University in Halifax is conducting a study on Botox and other injectable facial fillers (e.g., Juvéderm, Restylane).

If you are a woman aged 35 – 65 who has had injections to reduce the signs of aging to your face but have mixed or negative feelings about your experience (for example, maybe you didn’t like how you felt emotionally or physically afterwards, you didn’t like how it looked, or other reasons), you may be interested in participating in this study on women’s experiences with injectable facial procedures.

Participants will be interviewed privately and confidentially (in person, on-line Skype, or by telephone).

To find out more about the study or to participate, please contact: sandi.berwick@msvu.ca (Dept of Family Studies and Gerontology) OR call 889-4130 and leave a confidential message.

Thursday, November 8th, 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, 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. They have drafted the first backgrounder on alcohol and depression addressing the links between depression and alcohol consumption. The resource also includes sample activities to generate discussion with girls around these issues. As experienced girls' programmers and facilitators, they are inviting you to participate in this special webinar in order to review and improve the content of this resource. They welcome your feedback and knowledge to this project.

Don't forget to register to participate!

For more information on this webinar, please contact Karine Myrgianie Jean-François at karine@girlsactionfoundation.ca or at 1-888-948-1112.

You are invited to the Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence

Third Annual General Meeting

Friday, November 16, 2012

11:00 am - Registration

11:30 am - Lunch

11:45 am - AGM and Ceremony

Followed by presentations on new research. 

The Greenwood Inn

1715 Wellington Avenue, Winnipeg, Manitoba

Tickets $20

RSVP to pwhce@uwinnipeg.ca or phone (204) 982-6630

For more information about PWHCE, visit www.pwhce.ca

Principal Investigator:  Dr. Jerilynn Prior, UBC Professor of Medicine

The Centre for Menstrual Cycle and Ovulation Research (CeMCOR), University of British Columbia (UBC), and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute (VCHRI) are conducting a Progesterone Study for Women (35 – 58y) with hot flushes and night sweats.  Women living anywhere in Canada are invited to join.  You will keep a daily record of hot flushes.  There are 3 study visits.  You can participate from home, or come to our offices at Vancouver General Hospital.  You will receive study medication (progesterone or placebo) for 3 months. 

To participate you have:

§  Menstruated within the past 12 months

§  Moderate-severe hot flushes (4/day) or night sweats (waking 2/week)

§  Not taken estrogen, progesterone or birth control pills within the past 6 months

For more information please contact the research coordinator:

Andrea Cameron, RN BScN (604) 875-5960; Andrea.Cameron@vch.ca

Or visit: www.cemcor.ubc.ca

Atira Women’s Resource Society in Vancouver is seeking written proposals from evaluators interested in designing and conducting an in-depth, creative, participatory evaluation involving women ages 55+ at two safe/transitional housing programs in Canada. The project is called Building on Promising Practices across Canada for Housing Senior Women Experiencing Abuse.

Their objective is to create a collaboratively developed, pan-Canadian promising practices document, as well as a network of existing housing programs for elder women fleeing abuse. They invite proposals from evaluators whose objective will be to create an in-depth participatory evaluation and who will actively involve the women at both sites. Upon project completion, the evaluator will produce a document containing Preliminary Promising Practices detailing the results of their research. The proposal should address an understanding of the project’s requirements and should include any information demonstrating experience in the field, as well as any additional information outlined in the requirements section of the RFP.

Deading for proposals: November 5, 2012

For more information, please see the RFP below.

Ask your MP to Take a Stand against poverty!

Dignity for All: the campaign for a poverty-free Canada wants you to show your support for ending poverty in Canada. 

Canada is a wealthy country that has enough resources for everyone; poverty, homelessness and hunger are unacceptable and unreasonable. You can send a strong message to your elected official that you want to see poverty eradicated.

Here’s how:

Take a moment to phone or email your MP. Ask them two things:

Will they wear an “End Poverty” button on October 17? They’ve received one in the mail; extras will be available in the lobby to the House of Commons on the 17th.

Will they attend “Ending Poverty Together: Real Stories, Real Solutions”, our public forum in conjunction with the All-Party Anti-Poverty Caucus, from 6:30 – 8:00 p.m. on Oct 17 at the Government Conference Centre? 

Together, we can end poverty in Canada!

- The Dignity for All campaign team

October 25 - 26, Winnipeg

An event is being organized to share results with participants of the ongoing research project entitled, “'Someone's mother, sister, or daughter':  Street sex workers, their families and transitioning out of street sex work".

This research is being conducted by Susan Strega, Leslie Brown, Jeannine Carriére and Robina Thomas, Caitlin Janzen and Sinead Charbonneau from the University of Victoria. Members of the research team visited Winnipeg in 2010 to conduct interviews with women involved in street sex work and family members of women involved in street sex work.

The research team is inviting those who have participated in this project to come to an event to share where the researchers will their findings.

This campaign launched in May by the Canadian Association of Midwives is coming to a close Oct 17^th 2012.

CAM launched Choice. Access. Midwives. to draw attention to the lack of access to midwifery care faced by many women and families in Canada. They are highlighting three specific issues surrounding access to midwifery care namely, lack of access in unregulated provinces and territories, lack of access for Aboriginal communities, and lack of access for many families in rural and remote regions of Canada. The main action of this campaign is to encourage all Canadians to sign an e-letter that is sent directly to Prime Minister Harper and Health Minister Aglukkaq.

This campaign will close at the CAM Annual Conference in St. John’s, NL October 17 where CAM hopes to present the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador, and all Canadians with an impressive number of signatures.

See the campaign and letter here.

For more information on this campaign please visit their website or contact Annie Hibbert: admin@canadianmidwives.org or  (514)-807-3668.

For years, communities have pointed to the high number of missing and murdered Aboriginal women and girls in Canada.

The Native Women’s Association of Canada is a lead organizer in Sisters In Spirit Vigils, a national movement that encourages concerned citizens and Aboriginal community members to gather on October 4th.

They invite you, your organization and your community to join with them in solidarity every October 4th.

For more information about Sisters In Spirit and to find a vigil near you, please visit NWAC.