BC Proposes Shutting Down Health Care!

Canada Don't Slam the Door on Health Care!

From the Care 2 Petition Site:

Officials in British Columbia are as good as abandoning women in desperate need of health care. Five health clinics in BC are scheduled to close at the end of this month.

Canada's nurses warn that these closures will mean a loss of care, especially to the poor and disenfranchised. Women in need of cancer-preventing pap smears and young people who need STI screenings will be left without any form of help.

The clinics, located in Kamloops, Kelowna, Penticton, Grand Forks, and Cranbrook, saw hundreds of people a year, including women who do not have a family doctor.

The Winnipeg Free Press even predicts that the clinic closings will accelerate the spread of sexual infections. And this comes at a time when sexually-transmitted infections are on the rise in the province.

This is not just irresponsible; it is plain unethical. Tell Canada's health authority to keep the British Columbia clinics open!

The Petition:

We the undersigned urge you not to close affordable health clinics in Kamloops, Kelowna, Penticton, Grand Forks, and Cranbrook. According to your country's own nurses, these clinics are critical to the welfare of hundreds of women who need pelvic exams and pap smears, but do not have a family doctor. The confidential services offered at these clinics also encouraged those with sexually-transmitted infections to get diagnosed and treated rather than ignoring symptoms and infecting others.
Don't disenfranchise the poor and infected. Keep your clinics open.

How Do You Care For Your Spiritual Life?

Lamp and Light Publishers Free Bible Studies

A few weeks ago, I was blessed with a healing that is nothing short of miraculous. It has left me wondering ‘What am I supposed to do with this new lease on life?’ I decided to send away for some free Bible correspondence courses from Lamp and Light.

Self-Esteem: Dove Video Misses Target Audience What do you think?

Dove Donating $100,000 after Video Gets 100,000 Views

Dove's promo video, "Singin' in the Rain" for Dove's new product, a shampoo promising to keep your hair Frizz -Free, misses its target audience. Watching young nubile women turn cartwheels in filmy dresses may appeal to the guy who dreamed up this video, me?- leaves me cold.

Want to keep my attention? Toss in a few virile bare-chested men, raindrops glistening off their rain-slick hair-now that would keep me watching, and engage my imagination.

So Dove, bribery will make this video shareable, but will it help me remember your product? Doubt it. To make a video memorable to women, it needs to engage the mind. Men are visual, while women are aural, therefore, you need to engage a woman's mind to make something memorable. The name of the product being flashed on the screen - forgotten already. Sorry, Dove you've missed the mark with this one.

What do you think?

Get Involved!

WWOOM is a very grass roots, fledgling group. The most important thing to do is to take care of yourself, then try to pass the message along to at least 3 women each day.

There are many different ways people can be involved in the WWOOM project. Here are a few ideas:

 

Posting on the Blog: 

Guest posts are welcome in any of the following formats:

• Orally recorded on YouTube or another audio device, or 
• a piece of writing  or
• a photo, picture, or other artwork

Submissions can be  posted on http://wwoom.blogspot.com either by email, or using a free blogging tool such as Windows Live Writer

Twitter

Women can  tweet their self-care message using text messaging or a computer. Messages with the hashtag #WWOOM  automatically appear at http://WomenWOOM  allowing others to easily find  messages and respond with words of encouragement.

Responding to Messages

Men and women can also participate  by responding to messages women post about their self-care with words of positive encouragement either by "Liking" a post on the blog, or anywhere they are found and tagging it #WWOOM to raise awareness of the importance of women caring for themselves.

 

Attend/Host a WWOOM Party

A fourth way women can get involved is by either coming to, or hosting a public WWOOM party on the 8th of the month, and perhaps bringing an example of something they would like to share about the importance of women caring for themselves. If you are hosting an open public event, please comment on the blog about it , so it can be added to the WWOOM map and calendar.

 

Men can Participate Too

Gentlemen are encouraged to assist women in their lives in caring for themselves. first (I pointed out to one man at Peterborough Square: Encouraging women in your life to care for themselves first is really a selfish act- if they are ill, they can't care for you!) Men are welcome to post about how they are encouraging women in their lives to care for themselves first, and encourage other men to do the same.

 

Aims of WOOM Participation

We want this to be helpful to all women everywhere. WWOOM is meant as a way of  validating the importance of what we women are doing to care for ourselves, whether it is caring for our bodies and physical health, our spiritual health, or mental health and feeling of well being. It is also a validation of our own cultural knowledge about how women can care for themselves. Thanks to Google translate, writing is accepted in any language. Messages must be family friendly as it is an open blog.

If you would like assistance in participating in this project, I am more than willing to help either by phone, Skype, email or in person*.

Please let me know  how I can help you.

Looking forward to helping you implement this important project,

Suzanne Sholer B.A.B.Ed.

Co-founder:WWOOM

*Note Travel expenses for in person assistance must be born by the person or group asking for assistance.

Biomonitoring Our Bodies: Building Healthier Communities

National Network on Environments and Women's Health & CWHN 

PRESENT 

Sharyle Patton

 on 

Biomonitoring: measuring the pollution in women's bodies to build healthier communities

WEBINAR:

When: Wednesday March 30, 2011

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern (9:00 -- 10 a.m. Pacific)*

What: CWHN and the National Network on Environments and Women's Health welcome Sharyle Patton, who will explore the uses of biomonitoring -- the testing of one's body for chemical exposure. She will look at how the experience of knowing one's body burden (the total amount of chemicals present in the human body at any given time) can help inform personal choice and political engagement.

Please click here http://www.cwhn.ca/en/node/42993 for more information

Webinar: Young Girls and Women Empowering Leadership in Health

Canadian Women's Health Network Hosting Webinar


WEBINAR: What does health mean to girls and young women?


When: Tuesday March 29, 2011

12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Eastern (9:00 -- 10 a.m. Pacific)

What: The Canadian Women's Health Network hosts a conversation about leadership, empowerment and the role of younger people in advancing women's health. What health issues matter most to young women? How do younger generations of girls and women become involved, and how are they making their voices heard?



Please click here http://www.cwhn.ca/en/node/42994 for more information

Single Mothers Alliance Meeting-Voicing Needs

Single Mothers Invited- Please Repost


The Single Mothers Alliance (SMA) invites single mothers of all ages, and
even women who were at one time single mothers, to share their opinions on
the types of services/programs they believe should offered for single
mothers and their children in their community.

SMA is a support group in its development phase and believes there is no
better source than the mothers themselves, by which to gather the necessary
information to serve this community to the fullest.

*DATE & TIME:*

THURSDAY MARCH 17 & THURSDAY MARCH 24 - 7:00 - 9:00 PM

*LOCATION:*


SKYPE and
SCARBOROUGH CHURCH OF GOD (7TH DAY) FELLOWSHIP CENTRE
36 CRANFIELD ROAD
TORONTO, ON
M4B 3E5
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(BERMONDSEY ROAD & O'CONNOR DRIVE) - DIRECTLY OPPOSITE 54 DIVISION POLICE
STATION*

*CALL/EMAIL TO REGISTER!!*
416-389-3853


s...@g...l.com