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Community Health Advocate Project: Patient's Rights Information for Mental Health Consumers and People with Disabilities

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Sponsor: 
Vancouver/ Richmond Health Board
Pages: 
28
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This document is one component of a larger binder containing resources for mental health consumers and people with disabilities. The document was produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC), through its Community Health Advocates project. The information in the document includes some analysis of the stigma that people who have experienced mental health problems may face, as well as a listing of mental health clinics, depression resources and mental health advocates in the Lower Mainland. There is also a sample patient's rights workshop for mental health consumers. The document includes analysis of the experiences of disabled women with health care, particularly the assumptions made by health care practitioners and care-takers about women with disabilities. A list of patient's rights and tips to help disabled women get the most out of their trip to the doctor are included. Finally, information about the Mental Health Act, the Patients Property Act, and the New Adult Guardian Legislation is described in detail.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); women and health; women's health; Community Health Advocates Project; mental health; people with disabilities; women with disabilities; women and mental health; discrimination; stereotype; mental health care; mental health services; mental health treatment; women with mental illness; disability; disability rights; disability benefits; abuse; diagnosis; depression; community health; workshop; community-based services; advocacy; Mental Health Act;

Raging Women: Fighting Cutbacks in BC! A Conference for Women Engaged n the Struggle for Social Justice

Publication type: 
Poster
Date: 
2003
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A poster for the "Raging Women" conference, held in Vancouver in March 2003 and organized by a coalition of women representing organizations and unions across BC. The poster includes information about conference events and a registration form.
Keywords: 
Raging Women; funding cuts; women; women's organizations; coalition building; social justice; history; activism; BC provincial government; discussion forum

VWHC Women's Health Info centre presents workshop on Pregnancy and Childbirth

Publication type: 
Media Release
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
1999-01-27
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A press release by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC) advertising the pregnancy and childbirth workshop scheduled for February 6, 1999. The workshop will deal with issues around pregnancy and childbirth as well as mid-life pregnancy (35 years +), and is a women-only workshop.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); women and health; women's health; pregnancy; childbirth; reproductive health; workshop

You Are Invited to the Vancouver Women's Health Collective to celebrate the holiday season

Publication type: 
Poster
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
2001-12
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A poster inviting women to attend the Vancouver Women's Health Collective holiday celebration, December 13, 2001.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); women's organization

Interview Notes for Caryn Duncan: The State of Health Care

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
2002-01-10
Pages: 
9
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
Interview notes for Caryn Duncan of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC), on "the state of health care," for an interview on CJSR radio January 10, 2002.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Caryn Duncan; women; women's organizations; volunteer; feminist organization; funding cuts; BC provincial government; PharmaCare; Medical Services Plan (MSP); gender-based analysis; media; privatization; social determinants of health

Interview Notes from an interview with the Vancouver Women's Health Collective's Caryn Duncan and Ana-Lisa Boyle

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
2002-01-16
Pages: 
31
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
Transcribed notes from an interview with the Vancouver Women's Health Collective's (VWHC) Ana-Lisa Boyle and Caryn Duncan, in 2002. The interview covers the history of the VWHC, its goals, its services, its funding challenges over the years, and the role it has played in women's health in BC. The interview also addresses cuts to funding that affect women directly and indirectly, and the challenges of gaining media exposure for non-profit organizations.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Caryn Duncan; women; women's organizations; grassroots; women's health movement; women's movement; funding cuts; BC provincial government; media; health information dissemination; history; patient's rights; workshop; Community Health Advocate Project; non-profit organization; interview

CEDAW Speaking Notes for Cayn Duncan, VWHC IWS Event in Langley, March 6, 2003

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
2003-03-06
Pages: 
5
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
Speaking notes for Caryn Duncan of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective, for an International Women's Day Event held in Langley, March 6, 2003. The speech describes the BC CEDAW report to the United Nations, and failure of the BC provincial government to live up to its commitment to women's equality, through funding cuts to women's centres, cuts to legal aid, changes in eligibility for welfare, the abolition of the Human Rights Commission, etc. The speech also describes the criticism of the UN against Canada for failing to live up to its commitment to working towards women's equality.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Caryn Duncan; Committee for Ending Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); United Nations; equality; Be provincial government; funding cuts; discrimination welfare; Ministry of Women's Equality; human rights; poverty; inequality; legal issues; legal assistance; women and welfare; women and work; immigrants; aboriginal women; young women; International Women's Day (IWD)

Impacting Women: Provincial Government Cuts to Health Care

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
2005
Pages: 
7
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
Speaking notes for Caryn Duncan of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC), for a speech given at Langara College on November 3, 2005. The speech, called "Impacting Women: Provincial Government Cuts to Health Care" imposes a gender-based analysis upon the BC health care system, the funding cuts to programs and services, the funding cuts to BC women's centres, and the disproportionate affect this has on women in BC.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Caryn Duncan; health; women's health; funding cuts; women's organizations; BC provincial government; BC health system; Medical Services Plan (MSP); PharmaCare; seniors; advocacy; statistics; inequality; access to services; assisted living; housing; elections- provincial; support services; health care workers; privatization; service provision; lobbying; equality; Committee to End Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW); Women's Task Force; gender inequality; gender-based analysis; cosmetic surgery; BC College of Physicians and Surgeons; feminists

Impacting Women: Provincial Government Cuts to Health Care (speaking notes for Caryn Duncan, Raging Women's Conference march 1, 2003)

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective
Date: 
2003-03-01
Pages: 
5
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This speech, by Caryn Duncan, Executive Director of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC), was presented at the Raging Women's conference in Vancouver in March 2003. The speech addresses the cuts to health care and women's centres that work to negatively impact women's lives, from women who use the services provided by women's centres, to women who both access and make up the majority of health care workers. It examines social determinants of health through a gender-based analysis, and provides statistics to show the ways that increases in Medical Services Plan (MSP) user fees, cuts to welfare, closures of residential care facilities, reduced home support services, privatization of the health care industry and loss of unionized jobs, all impact women at a disproportionate level than men.
Keywords: 
Raging Women; Caryn Duncan; Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); women and health; women's health; funding cuts; health care; British Columbia Health Coalition (BCHC); advocacy; Medical Services Plan (MSP); user fees; women and work; poverty; minimum wage; PharmaCare; health care workers; unions; BC Coalition of Women's Centres; privatization; public-private partnerships (P3s); gender-based analysis; women's organizations; BC provincial government; social determinants of health

Raging Women: Fighting the Cutbacks in BC!! Conference Program

Publication type: 
Conference / Meeting Proceedings
Date: 
2003
Pages: 
2
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
The conference program for the "Raging Women
Keywords: 
Raging Women; conference program; women; women and work; women and welfare; coalition building; history; activism; discussion forum; Raging Grannies

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