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DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Smzedle, Candace; Meshell; Boyle, Linda Lee; Shapwaykeesie, Joanne; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2001-04
Pages: 
14
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
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
Keywords: 
Volunteer of the Month; Volunteer Appreciation Month; Residential Schools; Housing Problems; Calendar; End Legislated Poverty-Organizers Training; Street Nurse; Popular Education Group; Womens Voice; Women Surviving Together; Still Movement; Creative Writing Group; Arts and Crafts Workshops; Campaign Against Sexual Assault; Whats on at DAMS?; Personal Stories: Real Voice from Women's Centre; poem; Health Announcement; Drug Recall; Alka-Seltzer Plus; Dimetapp; Triaminic

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Keyespapamatao, Marie; Kim, Lori; Butterworth, Sharon; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2001-06
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Lots of community events for the National Aboriginal Day Celebration at the Senior's Centre, Carnegie, Aboriginal Friendship Centre and the Roundhouse Community Centre; How is your nutritional health? Vote for the AGM in the new building, located at 302 Columbia, Monday, June 25th, 2001; Poems: Sharen Butterworth and the meaning of life and the Life poem.
Keywords: 
Mother's Day Picnic; Staff News; National Aboriginal Day; Poems; Health; AGM; Poems

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Williams, Betty; Sharwaykeesic, Joanne; Butterworth, Sharon; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2001-07
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
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
Keywords: 
Board of Director; National Aboriginal Day; Volunteer Retreat; Transit Strike; Volunteer of the Month; Camping Trips; Summer Workshops; Newsletter Committee; Volunteer of the Month; Helping Spirit Lodge Society; Choices Pre-employment and Bridging Program; Policies and Procedures; Clothing Room; Laundry; Community Events; Mad Pride; Poems

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Graham, Erin; Baptiste, Gloria; Howes, Lauren; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2001-09
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Letter by Erin Graham re: support to staff, non-paid positions as volunteers, work with Atira and Bridge Housing, support and guide to Executive Director and staff; Announcements: Shiatsu Massage; Music Jam; Outings: Chinatown Walking Tour; Fringe Festival; Swimming, Sauna, and Waterslide; Crab Park BBQ; Calendar: Learning Group; Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS); End Legislative Poverty - Organizers Training; Street Nurse; Popular Education Group; Alcohol and Drug Harm Reduction Support Group; Women's Voice; Women Surviving Together; Still Movement; Creative Writing Group; Arts and Crafts Workshops - Beading with Leona; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers; Poem by Gloria Baptiste; Take Back the Night; Women's Creative Drop-In Group at DAMS; Women's Home Improvement Program; Aboriginal Mother Centre Project "Our Urban Long House"; What is a Mother's Centre? What services would our Mother Centre provide? Are there other services like this already?; Good-bye from Interim Executive Director, Lauren Howes; Elders Voice; B.C. Elders Newsletter once a month with easy recipes, poetry, events throughout B.C.
Keywords: 
Letter by Erin Graham; Women's Centre Announcements; Crab Park BBQ; Music Jam; Calendar; Learning Group; BWSS; End Legislative Povery-Organizers Training; Street Nurse; Popular Education Group; Alcohol and Drug Harm Reduction Support Group; Women's Voice; Women Surviving Together; Still Movement; Creative Writing Group; Arts and Crafts Workshops Beading with Leona; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers; Poem by Gloria Baptiste; Take Back the Night; Women's Home Improvement Program; Aboriginal Mother Centre Project; Elders Voice

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Keyespapamatao, Marie; Alice; Julia; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2000-07
Pages: 
12
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Marie and her poem - Love; Advocacy News from Alice is about welfare updates, outstanding warrants; HEP C Compensation - Hep C Settlement Agreement; Rate welfare increases 2% effective August 1, 2000; Complaints about Asian women using the Centre received by Volunteer Coordinator; The volunteer Skills Development Project is about more chances for employment; Julie thanks everyone for allowing her the opportunity to experience working at the centre.
Keywords: 
Poems; Advocacy News; Volunteer Coordinator; Skills Development Project

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Keyespapamatao, Marie; Kennedy, Anita; Tang, Denise; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2000-08
Pages: 
14
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
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
Keywords: 
BBQ; Information Meeting; Medicine Wheel; Programming Updates; DEWC Schedule; Workshops; Regular Programming; Volunteer News; Poems; Prisoner's Justice Day; Powell Street Festival 2000

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Cynthia; Wester, Marlies; Scott, Marg; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2000-09
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Get support from our victims services worker; Now is time to give adults a break; Check out the fringe fest; Time to empower the women on the downtown eastside - join the empower women group; We shouldn't be afraid to go to the corner store for a loaf of bread and milk, so let's take back the night!; Tired of your everyday routine? Want to make a difference in the east-side? Come volunteer! We are recruiting new volunteers;
Keywords: 
victims services; fringe festival; empowering women; take back the night; major recruitment; skill development

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Elliott, Freeda; Ilona; Raven; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2000-10
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
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
Keywords: 
Harvest Dinner; Women's Centre Guidelines; New Staff; Good-bye from fundraisers; End Legislative Poverty; Announcements; Calendar; Message from Ilona; Update on Skills Development Project; Physical Abuse cycle; Recipes; Poem

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Jennifer; McGowan, Rose-Anna; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2000-11
Pages: 
20
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Outings are back; Jennifer new drop-in programmer; Good-bye to Denise, Drew, Alix, and Heather; Music Jam first friday of every month; Bridge Housing Society for women is accepting applications now - description of Bridge Housing included in this issue; Victim Notification Unit - victims of crime have legal right to info throughout justice process; Volunteer News; Letter; Recommendations for new Skills Development Project Coordinator; Important News from Centre Letter; Calendar: Learning Group; BWSS; Street Nurse; Popular Education Group; Womens Voice; Creative Writing Group; Support Gathering for Women who are living with HIV/AIDS; Arts and Crafts Workshops - Beading with Leona; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers; Traditional Healing Myth or Medicine?; New Staff welcome Cory; Remembrance Day Letter; Remembering and Honouring Letter about Cherry Kingsley; Poems - Dear Women and He with the Revolving Eye-Balls by Rose-Anna McGowan; Women's March 2000; Womens Rights Tribunal short letter
Keywords: 
Letters; Women Fighting for Peace; Friday Night Jam at Centre; Housing in downtown eastside; Bridge Housing Society for Women; Victim Notification Unit; Volunteer News; News; Calendar; Traditional Healing; Remembrance Day letter; Christmas; Creative writing letters

DEW Drop-In Newsletter

Publication type: 
Newsletter
Author(s): 
Meshell; Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Agency: 
Downtown Eastside Women's Centre
Date: 
2000-12
Pages: 
16
Collections: 
Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre
Summary: 
Christmas Dinner Schedule; World AIDS Day December 1st, 2000; Christmas Events in the Downtown Eastside; Free Christmas Dinners in the Downtown Eastside; News from the Centre; Rules For the Group Night; New Staff at the Centre; Beading with Leona; Fabric Arts with Freeda; Dreamcatchers with Beverly; Canada's National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women; March and Candle Vigil; Christmas Crafts; Workshops and Outings; Vancouver Game Farm Outing; Christmas Hampers
Keywords: 
Christmas Events; AIDS and HIV Information; World AIDS Day; Free Christmas Dinners; DEWC News; DEWC Schedule; Regular Programming; Arts and Crafts Workshops; March; Candle Vigil

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