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April 8th, 2009

Radio interview on CJSF-with Jewelles Smith about issues around feminist and disability theory, her membership in ARM, work she has done for DAWN-RAFH Canada in the past 8 months...and other work she has done since graduating from SFU...

http://www.cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2009_April_08_16_00.mp3
http://www.cjsf.ca/vanilla_archives/2009_April_08_16_30.mp3

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Leadership Empowerment Activism Program (LEAP) - Call out for Participants - Deadline for Applications: May 15th 2009

Dear family, friends, allies and supporters,
Vancouver Status of Women is excited to share with you that the Leadership Empowerment Activism Program (LEAP) is now recruiting for participants!

Application Deadline: MAY 15, 2009
PROGRAM DETAILS and APPLICATION FORM AVAILABLE at
www.vsw.ca/LEAP.htm

WHAT DOES PARTICIPATION INVOLVE?

• Participation is FREE and the program will run for 18 months, starting with an orientation for participants on MAY 30, 2009.
• Participants will receive training and mentorship in anti-oppression, community organizing, transformative leadership, popular education, creative expression and group facilitation.
• Participants will practice and improve their skills by designing and delivering their own projects and/or workshops in the community.
• Participants will develop educational resources to share with the wider public.
• Participants will have the opportunity to connect with each other, reflect on their lived experiences and build a holistic community-based vision of social transformation.
• Participants will receive a stipend to support their involvement with the program. Bus tickets, child care, and food will also be provided for all events, meetings and workshops.
• The first step to becoming a LEAP participant is to apply (form attached). Application deadline is FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2009.

WHO CAN APPLY?
The primary purpose of LEAP is to empower women facing systemic barriers (i.e. on the basis of race, class, sexual and gender identity) with tools to transform our realities.

Indigenous women and women of colour are especially encouraged to apply. We welcome and celebrate trans, two-spirited, and queer-identified folks. High level of English and previous experience in leadership or activism roles not required for participation.

All LEAP workshops and events will be hosted in wheelchair-accessible spaces and ASL translation will be made available upon request. Please advise us if there are other systemic barriers that may prevent you from accessing this program.

WORKSHOPS OFFERED INCLUDE

• Anti-Oppression and Our Theory of Social Change
• Identity, Roots & Legacies
• Transformative Leadership
• Popular Education
• Community and Movement Building
• Holistic Well-Being
• Creative, Arts-Based Interventions
• Decision-Making & Conflict Transformation
• Documentation, Research & Media Skills
• & more!

Additional workshops open to the public will also be offered on specific topics related to the movement for social justice, and participants will have the opportunity identify issues they would like to explore in more depth.

We are eager to hear ideas from the community about workshops you would like to see LEAP offer. Please do not hesitate to send in your thoughts!

Look out for the LEAP Workshop Series starting JUNE 6, 2009.

WE NEED YOUR HELP!
Please tell your networks about this program! We want to be as inclusive as possible in our outreach, but our staff capacity is limited. If you can put up our poster or share our flyers, please do so!

If you know of community facilitators/educators who may be interested in getting involved, please refer them to us.

If you have any questions or concerns, please contact:
Cynthia Oka, LEAP Coordinator
604-255-6554
leapcoordinator@vsw.ca

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ANNOUNCEMENT

 The Canadian Disabled Individuals Association "CDIA" launches a beautiful new web site & RESOURCE DIRECTORY :
www.disabledindividuals.ca 
“Our goal is to provide one place for every supplier and service provider in BC and Canada to reach every disabled person who may need your special service or product.” 

It’s colorful, easy to navigate and full of over 600 BC & Canadian listings! 

“We wish to invite each of you to join with us in this Valuable and Overdue Program to provide a simple and reliable resource for the disabled & those who wish to be in service them.” 

What we don’t want to have happen is to become a supplier of resources based on selling listings & advertising only.  This could leave us shallow and incomplete like others before us.  Our goal is be a COMPLETE resource and a real “VOICE” for the disabled, service organizations & the marketplace. 

--We need to partner each of you to make it work!-- 

“We took the risk to build it in hopes that they would come.” 

We truly hope you see the full value in this for your organization as we do as disabled persons and join us in providing one place to go to for goods and services and share in some way in the investment required to assure its full value and future. 

**Every little bit will help and it’s about Unity & Community**

The best way is a small donation & a link from each charity & non-profit service provider to the disabled.  Not only does it assure our quality and future, it brings us together in unity and community! Partners! Need to do some fundraising, a special announcement?

We can help give you a new voice!  Let us market with you!

It’s a great way to meet and beat the recession, in unity & community!!

I look forward to your reply,

David Paur
Director of Marketing Canadian Disabled Individuals Association (CDIA)
www.disabledindividuals.ca
#600-890 West Pender St. Vancouver, BC V6C 1J9
Email: david@disabledindividuals.ca
Phone: 604.677-6565

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