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Welcome to our E-News for Thursday, October 9, 2014
1) National Coalition of Advisory Councils Met in Charlottetown
 At the end of September, the PEI Advisory Council on the Status of Women hosted representatives of Advisory Councils on the Status of Women from across Canada here in Charlottetown for our annual National Coalition meeting. The National Coalition of Provincial and Territorial Advisory Councils on the Status of Women shares information about the activities, issues, and best practices of each member organization and plans actions to address national issues that affect the status of Canadian women.
Most of the topics for discussion at the National Coalition table are ongoing issues of concern, including the need for national strategies to prevent violence against women and girls; the particular need for an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women; changes to Employment Insurance benefits, including maternity and parental benefits; unaddressed instances of sexism by professionals such as judges or doctors; unequal access to basic health services, especially abortion care; effective ways to support women in government and leadership at all levels; inclusive economic development that benefits women equally with men; and the need for supports and services for sex trade workers...continued.
To read the entire meeting summary and also see a group photo, please click here.
2) PEI Status of Women Bursaries
 Each year, the PEI Advisory Council Council on the Status of Women awards four bursaries for post-secondary education. There is one bursary each to assist a University of Prince Edward Island student, a Holland College student, and Collège Acadie student. The fourth bursary, named for late Council vice-chairperson Inge Blackett, supports ongoing studies for a woman who is a recent immigrant to Canada. The deadline to apply for bursaries is October 15 for all four bursaries. The University of Prince Edward Island also administers an internal bursary in our name, awarded to a woman studying Engineering.
3) International Year of the Girl Child is October 11
(excerpted from UN Women - http://www.unwomen.org)
About the Day
Since 2012, the United Nations marks 11 October as the ‘International Day of the Girl Child’. The day promotes girls' human rights, highlights gender inequalities that remain between girls and boys and addresses the various forms of discrimination and abuse suffered by girls around the world.
2014
This year, the theme is "Empowering adolescent girls: Ending the cycle of violence". UN Women Executive Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka will speak at an event at UNICEF House co-sponsored by UNICEF, UN Women, UNFPA and Plan International, from 12.30-2 p.m. Check out our special In Focus compilation on the Girl Child, one of the 12 critical areas of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.
4) Evening of Celebration with Hon. Catherine Callbeck
Thursday, October 16th, 2014
Reception 6:00pm
Dinner 6:45pm
PEI Conference Centre
Queen Street, Charlottetown, PE
CHANCES Family Centre will be hosting a celebratory gala evening on October 16th, 2014 to recognize the Hon. Catherine Callbeck for her lifetime of community contributions, public service and leadership. The Hon. Margaret Norrie McCain will be Honorary Chair of the event. The evening will commence with opening remarks from Premier Robert Ghiz, with the Hon. Frank McKenna delivering the keynote address. To purchase tickets please contact Alyson Norton at chances@chancesfamily.ca or 892-8744 or visit www.chancesfamily.ca
Admission/ticket pricing: Tickets are $150 per person or $1200 for a table of 8. Charitable tax receipts will be issued. All funds raised will go to support CHANCES Family Centre.
5) West Prince Family Forum
 We would like to cordially invite you to our West Prince Family Forum 2014
located at the
Rodd Mill River Resort
October 15th
from 6-8pm
This is a FREE event designed to give you and your families an opportunity to meet some of the services and programs available to our West Prince Families. Such as Kids West, Cap Enfant, Best Start, PEI Association for Newcomers, Family Law representatives, Public Health, Dental Kids Program, PEI Healthy Eating Alliance, and so many more. 32 Organizations will be represented. Everyone Welcome, kids activities during the event.
Sponsored by Circle of Connection. For more info, Contact Rosanne at 902-853-4066 / Circleofconnection.weebly.com
6) The Charlottetown Election - Forum on Social Justice Issues
A Forum on Social Justice issues will be held next Sunday afternoon, October 19th, 2:00 till 4:00 o’clock at St. Paul's Parish Hall, 101 Prince Street in Charlottetown.
Hear what the three candidates for mayor have to say about poverty, affordable housing, food security, democratic participation, involvement of youth, and the city’s environment. There will be an open-mike opportunity for audience members to pose questions.
Come to the parish hall of St. Paul’s church in downtown Charlottetown -- at the corner of Prince and Richmond streets.
Information: St. Paul’s parish office (John Clarke, Rector) 902-892-1691 stpauls@pei.aibn.com
7) PEI Municipal Elections: Opportunities to Serve, Deadline October 10; Elections on November 3
The Federation of PEI Municipalities (FPEIM) has long been a supporter of, and participant in, the Premier’s Action Committee on Family Violence Prevention. Municipalities are the order of government closest to our communities. With such intimate connections, municipalities can respond quickly and have the capability to make a real contribution in the effort to prevent Family Violence.
PEI Municipal Elections are scheduled for November 3, 2014. New councils will be elected to four year terms. FPEIM urges everyone to participate in this important democratic process. It takes community participation and leadership to build the strong communities that can effect the changes required to prevent Family Violence. The opportunity is there for those who would like to be involved at the elected level. Get engaged in your community by putting your name on the ballot. The nomination deadline for most municipalities is October 20, 2014 (October 10, 2014 for Charlottetown, Summerside, Stratford and Cornwall). You could be the leader that effects change.
At a very minimum, get out and vote! Engage your local candidates in discussions about the role of your municipality in preventing Family Violence. Make sure the issue is on the agenda. Let’s work together to build communities where Family Violence is no more; communities where help is available in time of family stress; communities that we want to live in; communities that are safe for all! The solution can start with you.
Municipal elections are on November 3. Information is available on the Municipal Elections PEI 2014 website: http://www.municipalelectionspei.ca/
8) Save the Date! Youth and Cyberbullying: Creating a Collaborative Community Response
Join us for an informative and engaging one-day conference on Youth and Cyberbullying: Creating a Collaborative Community Response
Women's Network PEI is hosting this one-day conference for partners and stakeholders to learn more about cyberbullying and PEI youth. Join professionals from education, health, justice, law enforcement, and community groups to look at possible approaches to preventing and addressing cyberbullying in PEI.
October 21, 2014
Holiday Inn Express
200 Capital Drive, Charlottetown
9:00am – 4:00pm
Hosted by Women’s Network PEI and East Prince Women’s Information Centre
Guest Speaker: Dr. Wendy Craig, PREVNet. Dr. Craig, is a well-known expert and advocate for policy development that addresses cyberbullying in healthy and pro-active ways. Registration is free – agenda and registration confirmation will follow. For more information, call 902-368-5040.
9) 2014 National Conference
Integrated Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Learning & Innovating Together
October 20-22, 2014
Wu Conference Centre, UNB
The Canadian Observatory on the Justice System Response to Intimate Partner Violence, in partnership with the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre (MMFC), the New Brunswick Department of Public Safety and the Crime Prevention Association of New Brunswick are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2014 National Conference Integrated Approaches to Intimate Partner Violence: Learning and Innovating Together.
This conference, taking place from October 20-22 at the Wu Conference Centre in Fredericton, will engage stakeholders and communities and provide learning opportunities to a broad audience. It is expected that participants will come from community agencies, police, academia, First Nations groups, justice and corrections, municipal, provincial, and federal governments, social workers, healthcare professionals, etc. The conference will offer a venue to continue important discussions and begin new ones on the importance of having a coordinated criminal justice & community responses to Intimate Partner Violence (IPV). It is through such discussion that we develop a better understanding of the roles and responsibilities for all involved.
Participants can look forward to a range of presentations, panels, workshops, and keynote speeches that address the justice system response to IPV, coordinated community responses to IPV, domestic homicide, the interface between family and criminal courts in IPV cases, the rural challenges of IPV, and best practices and information sharing, among others. For more information, click here.
10) Free Family Law Course
Join us for a FREE family law course on October 23rd from 6-9pm. Community Legal Information Association's "Best Interests of the Children in Custody and Access" is a course designed for people experiencing a custody and access dispute, professionals who work with families, and anyone interested in learning about family law on PEI. The class is offered free of charge- the volunteer lawyer for October's class is Charlottetown lawyer Pamela Stewart. For more information and to register please contact CLIA at 902-892-0853, 1-800-240-9798 or email bestinterests@cliapei.ca
11) PEIBWA E-News
12) The Holy City - Fundraiser for PEI Family Violence Prevention
The Holy City – The Ottawa Christian Chorale, Calgary Chinese Oratorio Society, and Christian singers from Toronto present The Holy City, a Sacred Cantata by A.R. Gaul. This 50-person choir will be performing in Charlottetown for ONE NIGHT only!
All proceeds from this event benefit PEI Family Violence Prevention Services. Tickets are $10 and can be purchased in advance by calling Lindsay at 902-894-3354 ext 222
Location: Trinity United Church (Corner of Richmond and Prince Street, Charlottetown)
Date/Time: Thursday, October 23, 2014 at 7pm
13) Book Talk with Anne Ream
 Book Talk with Anne Ream (via SKYPE) at Confederation Centre Public Library
Thursday, Oct 30
7pm
At this event, author Anne Ream will be discussing her book, Lived Through This: Listening to the Stories of Sexual Violence Survivors. Her book profiles individuals she has met of varying ages, races, sexes and backgrounds including Prince Edward Island survivors, who have been shaped but refuse to be defined by their histories of sexual violence. The accomplished and courageous women and men profiled are, in the words of the author, “living reminders of all that remains possible in the wake of the terrible.
Anne Ream is also founder of The Voices and Faces Project, an award-winning new-media documentary initiative created to bring the stories of survivors of sexual violence and trafficking to the attention of the public to raise awareness of the reality of sexual violence, exploitation and trafficking.
The Provincial Child Sexual Abuse Advisory Committee has donated 22 copies of Ms. Ream's book to the provincial library system. A pdf version is also available online. This book talk is being hosted by the Confederation Centre Public Library to provide an opportunity to "meet" the author via SKYPE and to raise awareness of the availability of this important book Island-wide. A press release will be issued in advance of the book talk but we wanted to announce the talk as soon as possible to enable people to save the date and make plans to attend.
14) Basic Income Canada Network - Réseau Canadien pour le revenu garanti
I would like to invite you to sign our petition, and send the petition to everyone you know. Please click here: http://bicn.nationbuilder.com/petition
What is your vision of Canada? Does it include or exclude poverty? If it excludes poverty and charities should be allowed to fully pursue the prevention and elimination of poverty, then please sign our petition: "I want a dignified Canada, free from poverty, and a country where organizations can freely pursue the prevention and elimination of poverty as charitable purposes."
Recently, the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) clarified that “poverty relief” has a charitable purpose, but poverty prevention and elimination do not. Obviously a vision of Canada that excludes poverty prevention and elimination in favour of only relief makes no sense. "Relief" suggests poverty is permanent, requires maintenance, and can only be managed over the long-term. It also assumes that poverty prevention and elimination do not have a public good. BICN recently rejected pursuit of charitable status to maintain our ability to freely pursue policy comment on preventing and eliminating poverty. See our letter here.
The CRA charitable vision of Canada, one that includes poverty, costs us billions. Some estimates place the cost of poverty in Canada as approaching $100 billion annually. We also know that those people who live in poverty have far shorter lives than those not in poverty. It is a vision that we at BICN do not support.
BICN’s vision includes the elimination and prevention of poverty as valid, ethical and dignified. We believe that through the implementation of a basic income guarantee, universally applied so that all Canadians have access to a guaranteed minimum income, poverty can be eliminated in Canada. It is a Canada where the dignity of all citizens is supported by ensuring that all of us have an income to pay for the necessities of living, and more.
If you believe in a better vision for Canada, then we ask that you spread the word and invite others to become a part of our movement. We also ask you to endorse the elimination of poverty in Canada by signing this petition:
Dear Honourable Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay, Minister of National Revenue, & Honourable Joe Oliver, Minister of Finance
"I want a dignified Canada, free from poverty, and a country where organizations can freely pursue the prevention and elimination of poverty as charitable purposes."
Please sign our petition, then pass it to everyone you know. Please click here: http://bicn.nationbuilder.com/petition
Basic Income Canada Network - Réseau Canadien pour le revenu garanti
http://bicn.nationbuilder.com/
15) Youth are Speaking Up and Demanding Strong Gun Control
 This December 6th will mark the 25th anniversary of the Montreal Massacre in which fourteen women studying engineering were killed at their university. In 1991 and in 1995, Canada strengthened gun control measures as a result of increased pressure from Canadians, including youth and students, who were mobilized in the aftermath of the tragedy.
We are encouraging young people to be a part of this year's commemoration and youth action to show that a new generation is demanding control over guns in the country.
We are asking for your help in spreading the word and encouraging the young people you know to #DemandControl and get involved on the Generation Action campaign on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and on the Web.
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Student Poster Competition
To underline the 25th anniversary and commemoration of the Montreal Massacre, the Coalition for Gun Control and the Generation Action collective of young activists are holding a poster design contest aimed at secondary and post-secondary students.
We ask that participants submit a poster design that reflects a new generation's demand for strengthened gun control in Canada. The poster will be used by the Generation Action campaign and by the Coalition for Gun Control. Three winners will be chosen by the public and will be awarded bursaries ($500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd and $100 for 3rd).
The application deadline is October 28th at 6pm. For more details on how students can participate, contact the campaign or consult this link . Please help spread the word!
16) Housing First Forum - Save the Dates
Housing First Forum
CLIENT IDENTIFICATION
Tuesday, October 28, 2014
8:30 am – 4:00 pm
THIS FORUM IS:
• Follow up to a very successful Housing First Workshop held November 2013
• The next step in implementing a Housing First approach for the Federally designated communities of Charlottetown and Summerside
• An opportunity for participants to provide their input on Housing First client identification models that work best for PEI
PRESENTATIONS INCLUDE:
• Medical Director of At Home/Chez Soi Homelessness Housing First Project in Moncton & Shediac, NB
• Person with “lived experience” who has participated in the Housing First pilot in Moncton, NB
• HIFIS, a Federal information system designed to collect and analyse baseline data on the use of shelters in Canada, including the two shelters in Charlottetown
BOOK YOUR SECOND DATE:
NOVEMBER 25, 2014
8:30 am – 12 noon
PEI HOUSING FIRST DELIVERY MODEL - More details to follow. . .
- JACK BLANCHARD FAMILY CENTRE, 7 Pond Street, Charlottetown
- LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE / No Cost to Attend
- FIRST NOTICE: More registration details to follow . . .
SPONSORED BY PEI COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD ON HOMELESSNESS
Questions: Please contact Carl Doucette, HPS Researcher, Tel 902 367 3356 / Fax 902 628 6842 / housingfirstpei@gmail.com
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