Women

Information and resources to help you provide effective service, information and referral and interventions to newcomer women.

Related Web Sites

Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW)
A national, not-for-profit organization committed to advancing the equality of women through research about the diversity of women''s experience.

Canadian Women's Health Network databases
Resources that cover a wide range of topics on women's health and women’s lives, chosen for health consumers, health professionals, researchers, students and activists alike.

Counselling Across Difference: Models of Intervention to Women in a Multicultural Context
A non-medical model of mental health service delivery to diverse, multi stressed women that explores the different elements of counselling practice in challenging the traditional Western views of support to marginalized women.

Disabled Women's Network (DAWN) Ontario
An organization promoting social justice, gender equality, human rights & the advancement of equality rights of disAbled women through education, research, advocacy, coalition-building, resource development, and information & communication technology.

Education Wife Assault - Research
Information about violence prevention, for non-profit service professionals, from Education Wife Assault.

Preventing Violence Against Girls and Young Women
This site describes different models of prevention and types of prevention programs, making the case for schools as a logical venue within which to offer violence prevention efforts.

Prevention of Domestic Violence: Online Self-Directed Learning Modules
These online self-directed learning modules are part of the OCASI Domestic Violence: Prevention through Early Intervention project.

Questions about Culture, Gender Equality and Development Cooperation
An exploration of how the promotion of gender equality can be perceived as interfering with cultural norms of some groups, and whether gender equality should not be promoted for ethical reasons.

Recommended Reading

Assisting Immigrant Women Abused by Their Sponsor
This guide contains information about the legal process for service providers who are supporting women through the immigration process - May 2003.

Guidebook on Vicarious Trauma: Recommended Solutions for Anti-Violence Workers
This guidebook is written for those individuals who have chosen to dedicate a time in their life to work with abused women, children and their abusers - 2001.

Immigrant and Refugee Women - facts about abusive situations
Sponsored immigrant and refugee women, mail-order brides, and domestic live-in caregivers are vulnerable to abusive relationships - 2003

Life in the Family: A Newcomer's Guide to Parenting Issues in Canada - A Resource for ESL Teachers and Their Students
These videos and curriculum provide adult ESL teachers and their students across Canada with information and resources to address parenting and discipline issues that arise in newcomer families living in Canada - 2002.

No Hijab Is Permitted Here
A study on the experiences of Muslim women wearing Hijab applying for work in the manufacturing, sales and service sectors.

Pathways to Gender Justice - A Tool Kit for People Working in the Immigrant and Refugee Serving Sector in Canada
This tool kit seeks to educate and inform the immigrant and refugee serving sector about gender issues, and encourages agencies and workers to incorporate gender analysis into their work - 2006.

Protecting Children is Everyone's Business
In the six year period between 1995 and 2001, there was a 70% increase in the number of children in care at the Children''s Aid Society of London and Middlesex — from 445 children in 1995 to 758 children in 2001. In search of answers to this community crisis, a team of researchers from the University of Western Ontario conducted a study of 1,024 child protection cases that were open to CAS in 1995 and 2001 - October 2003.

Rights of Non-Status Women Network (RNSWN)
RNSWN is a network of agencies and community members in Toronto. Through coordinated public education and advocacy for systemic change, they seek to address barriers to services and resources faced by non-status women.

Women's experience of racism: How race and gender interact
The purpose of this fact sheet is to provide easy to understand statistical information and research on how women experience racism, and to provide suggestions for resources and action.