Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre

Volunteer of the Month letter; Volunteer Appreciation Week; Healing from Residential Schools Letter - impact on First Nations communities; Residential School Memorial Project to honour sruvivors in B.C., permanent memorial plaque placed in Chief Simon Baker room at Vancouver Friendship Centre; Amazing Local Story- Victoria Folster, Key Reserve in Sask. is a long term member of Womens Centre; Prevention of violence against women week; Housing Problems - come to Social Housing Forum; Calendar: Learning Group; BWSS; End Legislated Poverty-Organizers Training; Street Nurse; Popular Education Group; Womens Voice; Women Surviving Together; Still Movement; Creative Writing Group; Arts and Crafts Workshops - Beading with Leona; Clay Works; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers; No Means No: Campaign Against Sexual Assault Letter; What's on at DAMS? Creating community - moving from isolation to connection; Women's Yoga Group at DAMS; Good-bye Letter from Outreach Worker Meshell; Personal Stories: Real Voices from the Women's Centre; Good Morning Vietnam short letter and poem; Letter about centre moving to new location; Important Health Announcement: Drug Recall all products containing the chemical Phenypropolamine

Board of Directors 2001-2002 named; National Aboriginal Day feast fed over 400 women was organized by Debbie Lincoln and Reta Blind. Program included songs, visit by indigenous women from Australia, drummers and performance by Still Movement group; Volunteer Retreat at Loon Lake stories by Betty Williams and Joanne Sharwaykeesic; Transit Strike Background; Volunteer of the Month was Eva Kovacs; Camping Trips: Annual Lytton Healthing Gathering at Pusulko Lake, Mission Medicine Wheel, BC Elder's Gathering and 2 tentative trips; Summer Workshops: A 3-wk Video and Documentary Workshop run by Jaqueline Levitin and Women's Centre Library Project facilitated by Janice Cramer; Tickets given out for Vancouver Folk Music Festival; Newsletter Committee set up to access the new computer lab that will be running in August; Volunteer of the Month; 2 practicum students at the Centre from Helping Spirit Lodge Society's Choices Pre-employment and Bridging Program; Mission statement and procedures for applying for training program; Centre's Policies and Procedures on Clothing Room and Laundry; Community Events scanned post of Mad Pride; Poem by Sharen Butterworth

Summer BBQ for Women and Children at Crab Park; Information Meeting for Women in the Centre; Elder's Medicine Wheel - Mission; Johnny Greyeyes film about the love between two First nations women; Programming Updates; DEWC Schedule; Regular Programming; Crafty Workshops - Beading with Leona, Fabric Arts with Freeda, Dreamcatchers with Tom-morrow; New Media Workshop; Volunteer News; Poems: I've Got the Blues, Friends, A Message from Anita Kennedy; Prisoner's Justice Day August 10th; Powell Street Festival 2000; Exercises

Harvest Dinner at Centre; Women's Centre Guidelines: clean up after yourself, clothing room, donations, look after your belongings, laundry, smoking, phones, bus tickets, no drugs or alcohol, bathrooms 5min max., treat each other with respect; New Staff; Interim Exectutive Director Lauren Howes, Programmer Jennifer England; Out On Screen Film and Video Festival; End Legislative Poverty starting Organizer's Training Group; Announcements: Thank You to United Native Nations for Donation of Long Tables; Calendar; Regualar Programming: Learing Group, Street Nurse, Popular Education Group, Women's Voice, Women Surviving Together, Creative Writing Group, Support Gathering for Women with HIV/AIDS; Arts and Crafts Workshops: Beading with Leona, Fabric Arts with Freeda, Dreamcathcers; Message from Ilona; Valentine's Prayer for forgiveness and caring towards one another; Update on Skills Development Project; Volunteer Coordinator and Volunteer Orientation; Stopping the Violence Worker (Carol) - the cycle of abuse explained; includes list of abusive characteristics and patterns; Recipes: Tomato soup with salmon and grated romano or parmesan cheese; Poem - Invisibility by Raven