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Community Health Advocate Project: The Vancouver Foundation Final Report

Publication type: 
Research Paper / Project Report
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Sponsor: 
The Vancouver Foundation
Date: 
2001-01-15
Pages: 
11
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This report to the Vancouver Foundation by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC) on the Community Health Advocate Project describes the work of the Community Health Advocates, the goals of the project, and the results, a achievements, and insights gained from the project, including greater ties between community organizations, and skills gained by women who can then become self-advocates of their own health. The report lists Patient's rights workshops provided in 2001, and community host facilitators responses to the Patient's Rights workshops. The final report appears here in draft form.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Community Health Advocate Project; women and health; women's health; advocacy; patients' rights; evaluation; outreach; self help; workshop; education; empowerment; BC health system; community-based health; discrimination; coalition building; community-based organization;

Community Health Advocate brochure (Spanish)

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Sponsor: 
Vancouver/Richmond Health Board
Date: 
1999-01
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A Spanish brochure describing the Community Health Advocates project, a project of the Vancouver Women's Health Collective and funded by the Vancouver/Richmond Health Board. The project trained women in different communities in the Lower Mainland to act as advocates for women with different needs, including disabled women, African women, Somali women, lesbian and bisexual women, etc. The brochure suggests different ways a health advocate might be useful, how to get in contact with a community health advocate, and information about patients' rights.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Community Health Advocate Project; women and health; advocacy; patient's rights; community-based health

Community Health Advocate Project Pamphlet (English)

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Sponsor: 
Vancouver/Richmond Health Board
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This pamphlet, produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC) for their Community Health Advocate Project, describes patients' rights and the goals of the project. The pamphlet describes the Community Health Advocate Project as "an outreach project that educates women about their rights within the health care system" through workshops and support through community health advocates.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Community Health Advocate Project; advocacy; patients' rights; health information dissemination; women's health; women and health; outreach; education; health care; community-based health

Community Health Advocate Project Pamphlet (Somali)

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Sponsor: 
Vancouver/Richmond Health Board
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This pamphlet, produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC) in Somali for their Community Health Advocate Project, describes patients' rights and the goals of the project. The pamphlet describes the Community Health Advocate Project as "an outreach project that educates women about their rights within the health care system" through workshops and support through community health advocates.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Community Health Advocate Project; advocacy; patients' rights; health information dissemination; women's health; women and health; outreach; education; health care; community-based health

Women's Health Information Network Project Summary

Publication type: 
Project Proposal / Grant Application
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Pages: 
14
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This document describes the Women's Health Information Network project, including the Community Health Advocates and the proposed computerized database of women's health information. The document provides an overview of the project, component of the computer system in place and necessary for the project to succeed, their plan for resources development and acquisition of resources for the computer-based database, and the connection between the Community Health Advocates Project and the database. Included is a listing quotes from letters of support for the project.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Women's Health Information Network (WHIN); women and health; women's health; Community Health Advocate Project; advocacy; gender-based analysis; BC health system; community-based health; Ministry of Women's Equality; women and technology; internet; information technology; health information dissemination

Community Health Advocates Poster

Publication type: 
Poster
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This poster advertises the Vancouver Women's Health Collective's Community Health Advocate Project. It lists questions a woman might ask her community health advocate, such as "What are my rights as a woman in the health care system?", and suggests that a Community Health Advocate will listen, and provide support and information to women in her community. Contact information is included.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Community Health Advocate Project; patients' rights; health care; women and health

Taking Action: A Union Guide to Ending Violence Against Women

Publication type: 
Training / Education Manual
Agency: 
B.C. Federation of Labour; Women's Research Centre
Sponsor: 
Health and Welfare Canada (Family Violence Prevention Division); B.C. Federation of Labour
Date: 
1992
Pages: 
54
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This guide is a product of the B.C. Federation of Labour's 1991 annual women's conference on the issue of violence against women. The manual provides gender-based analysis of the normalization and institutionalization of violence against women in the workplace and at home. The guide examines wage disparity and economic inequality, as well as embedded discrimination and the connections with violence against women. It offers an action plan for changing cultural perceptions of violence against women, specifically from within the unionized workplace.
Keywords: 
violence against women; violence; women and work; child abuse; sexual assault; rape; harassment; abuse; prevention; unions; equality; action plan; gender-based analysis; discrimination

How You Can Help End Oppression of Fat Dykes

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Minneapolis Lesbian Fat Liberation, c/o Lesbian Resource Center
Pages: 
3
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
This pamphlet, produced by the Minneapolis Lesbian Fat Liberation group and distributed in Vancouver through a Fat Issues Workshop, addresses some of the stereotypes and stigmas associated with sexuality, weight, and women. The pamphlet includes a list of 20 actions to take or ways to change thinking processes in order to end the oppression of fat women, and fat lesbian women in particular. The list includes statements such as "Let yourself be attracted to a Fat Dyke/womyn. It's not an accident that you've 'never' been attracted to a fat Lesbian." The pamphlet encourages consciousness-raising, exposure of "fatophobia" and building pride rather than self-hatred.
Keywords: 
body image; obesity; activism; women and health; women's health; stereotypes; feminist; social determinants of health; fat politics; weight; weight loss industry; lesbian; sexuality; gender-based analysis; gender and health; workshop

Community Health Advocates Leaflet

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A leaflet produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective with information about the Community Health Advocate project. The leaflet lists the different communities of women with access to their trained advocates, including Somali women, lesbian, bisexual, Aboriginal women, women of colour, poor women, South Asian women, women of the Downtown Eastside, women with disabilities, Latin American women, and Chinese women.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Community Health Advocate Project; advocacy; patients' rights; health information dissemination; women's health; women and health; outreach; education; health care; community-based health

Community Health Advocates Leaflet

Publication type: 
Brochure / Leaflet / Pamphlet / Information Sheet
Agency: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC)
Pages: 
1
Collections: 
Vancouver Women’s Health Collective
Summary: 
A leaflet produced by the Vancouver Women's Health Collective with information about the Community Health Advocate project. The leaflet lists the different communities of women with access to their trained advocates, including Somali women, lesbian, bisexual, Aboriginal women, women of colour, poor women, South Asian women, women of the Downtown Eastside, women with disabilities, Latin American women, and Chinese women. This leaflet also extends thanks to the community organizations who have endorsed the project by providing space for advocates to do their work.
Keywords: 
Vancouver Women's Health Collective (VWHC); Community Health Advocate Project; advocacy; patients' rights; health information dissemination; women's health; women and health; outreach; education; health care; community-based health

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