Support Group for HIV + Pregnant Women and New Moms!
Who should attend?Any HIV + woman who is pregnant or who has had a baby in the last 2 years.
Why?Why not-we all need support
Where?Positive Women's Network #103-1033 Davie Street,Vancouver Phone 604-692-3000
When?Monday, July 26th noon-1:30pm
Lunch will be served. Bus tickets and child care subsidies available.No on-site babysitting,sorry!
Questions?Dulce 604-875-2250 at Oak tree Clinic
Bronwyn 604-692-3008 at PWN, Sharon 604-688-1441 at YouthCo
CANADIAN AIDS SOCIETY- CALL FOR PARTICIPANTS
PLWHIV/AIDS Mentorship Pilot Project
The Canadian AIDS Society (CAS) is looking
for PLWHIV/AIDS who want to get
involved and gain experience in advisory
committee work.
WHAT
The mentorship project will offer support to
PLWHIV/AIDS less experienced with
advisory committee work who want to be part
of the National Advisory Committee
and advise CAS in the development of the
Webinar Series: Practice Issues in
HIV/AIDS Prevention, Treatment &
Support project. PLWHIV/AIDS will be
matched with a mentor from the advisory
committee who will provide guidance
and support as needed throughout the
committee term. They will be paid a small
honorarium as a thank you for their time and
effort
WHO
The mentorship project is for PLWHIV/AIDS
who meet the following criteria:
Self-identify as HIV+
Have previously accessed HIV/AIDS services
in a community setting
Have an interest in capacity-building and
community development for
service providers working in HIV/AIDS.
Have limited or no experience as a member
of an advisory committee
HOW
If you would like to participate, please
send a letter of interest, and include: 1) a
brief bio, 2) why you are interested in the
mentorship pilot project, 3) an outline of
any previous involvement in the HIV/AIDS
community; to:
Rachael Walisser
Canadian AIDS Society
190 O'Connor, Suite 800
Ottawa ON K2P 2R3
Telephone: 613.230.3580 ext. 126 /
1.800.499.1986
Fax: 613.563.4998
Email: rachaelw@cdnaids.ca
Please contact Rachael if you have questions
or need help with the application.
WHEN
The deadline for submitting letters of
interest is July 9th, 2010.
CATIE'S New Hepatitis C Website!
Please visit http://www.hepCinfo.ca
for a comprehensive,national and bilingual website,where we provide
up-to-date information,links to important agenices across Canada and
documents relevant to heaptitis C.New information is now avaialble by
region on testing,accessing financial assistance and treatment
coverage,and links to organizations providing Hepatitis C support
services in every province and territory.
The Positive Side readership survey
The Positive Side wants to hear from you! We
are
conducting a readership survey to find out what readers think of the
magazine.Take a few minutes to fill out The Positive Sidereadership
survey online and you'll help us improve Canada's magazine for and by
the people with HIV.(You can also find a link to the survey at http://www.positiveside.ca.)
The current issue Spring/Summer 2010 issue
of the
Positive Side Magazineis available through the website and the CATIE'S
Ordering Centre.
The Second
National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS in Canada
CONFERENCE
LOGO CONTEST: RULES AND INFORMATION
The Planning
Committee of the National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS in Canada is
currently inviting submissions for its Conference Logo Contest.
Who: This
contest is open to all women (trans-inclusive), 18 years or older,
living with HIV/AIDS in Canada. Whether you're a professional artist or
you just like to draw, we welcome your participation!
What: We are
looking for a design that will become the official logo of the National
Conference, to be used on all fundraising, promotional and other
materials for the event. You will find additional information in the
attached document (Guidelines for Conference Logo Contest-EN).
When: We will
be accepting submissions until Sunday June 27 at 5PM EST
How:
Submissions can be sent electronically (in PDF, WORD, JPEG or TIFF
format) or by regular mail, to the attention of Sophie Wertheimer at sophiew@cdnaids.ca
or 190 O'Connor, Suite 800, Ottawa, ON, K2P 2R3. You
can also reach her by phone at 613-230-3580 or 1-800-499-1986 ext 123
for any question or comment.
Prize:
The creator of the winning logo will receive a $250 gift certificate to
the store of her choice.
The first
National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS was held in May of 2000. In
the ten years following this event, significant changes have occurred
in the experiences, needs and resources available to women, transwomen
and girls living with, affected by and at risk for HIV/AIDS in Canada.
By bringing together women, activists, researchers, service and
healthcare providers, policymakers and other stakeholders, the second
National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS will offer participants the
opportunity to engage in dialogue and to exchange knowledge and skills
to better understand and respond to the current and diverse needs of
women in Canada. Tentatively scheduled for the fall of 2011, the
National Conference is founded on the principal of multi-stakeholder
engagement, such that diverse individuals, communities and groups will
be invited to participate in the event and its development. Ultimately,
we want this to be a conference by and for the women who are affected
by HIV/AIDS in Canada, and the many individuals, groups and
institutions working with them.
The Second
National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS in Canada
CONFERENCE
LOGO CONTEST: RULES AND INFORMATION
The Planning
Committee of the Second National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS in
Canada (otherwise referred to as the “conference
committee”) is currently inviting submissions for its
Conference Logo Contest.
ARTWORK
SPECIFICATIONS
This contest
is open to all women (trans-inclusive) living with HIV/AIDS in Canada,
whether you are a professional or an amateur. The logo must follow
these specifications:
It must be
an original work produced by you.
The design
should be relevant to the theme of women and HIV/AIDS.
Submissions
must be two-dimensional. Formats can include but are not limited to
digital designs, paintings and drawings.
Submissions
must be in greyscale (black, white and different shades of grey) and
red only (and/or if you submit a piece in color, it may be pared down
to greyscale and red for printing).
Any text on
the final conference logo must be in English and French. If you submit
a logo in one of these or any other language, your design must leave
room for the translated text to be added by the conference committee.
The logo
should include the caption “The Second National Conference on
Women and HIV/AIDS in Canada / La deuxième
conférence nationale sur les femmes et le VIH/sida au
Canada.” If you choose to submit a design without this
caption, it will be added by the conference committee.
The design
should be of a size appropriate for use as a logo (approximately
3”x 3”). If you submit a larger piece, it must lend
itself to being reduced to logo-size by the conference committee.
ELIGIBILITY
To enter and
be eligible for your artwork to be chosen, you must be a woman
(trans-inclusive) of 18 years of age or older who is living with
HIV/AIDS in Canada. Professional and amateur artists are welcome. Your
artwork submission must never have been previously exhibited publicly
or selected as a winner in any other contest.
HOW TO ENTER
Your
submission can be sent electronically or by regular mail, to the
attention of Sophie Wertheimer, Project Coordinator for the National
Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS in Canada. Please make sure that you
include your name and contact information along with the submission.
The deadline to enter a logo submission is Sunday June 27 at 5PM EST.
For
electronic submissions, send a TIFF, PDF, WORD, or JPEG file to the
following address: sophiew@cdnaids.ca.
Please include “Logo
Contest” in the subject line.
Regular mail
submissions can be sent on any type of paper or other surface to the
following address:
Sophie
Wertheimer
c/o The
Canadian AIDS Society
190
O’Connor, Suite 800
Ottawa, ON,
K2P 2R3
Please
do not
hesitate to get in touch with Sophie should you have any questions
about the contest or your submission. You can reach her by email or by
phone at 613-230-3580 ext.123 (in Ottawa) or 1-800-499-1986 ext.123 (in
the rest of Canada).
CONTEST RULES
By
participating in the contest, each participant agrees to be bound by
these contest rules, and guarantees that the submission:
Is original
to her and that the participant has all necessary rights in and to the
submission and all of its components – including, without
limitation, any and all pictures, photographs, or artwork contained
therein – to enter the contest;
Does not and
will not violate any law, statute, ordinance or regulation;
Is not and
will not be defamatory, trade libelous, and further that it will not
contain, include, discuss or involve, without limitation, any of the
following:
Derogatory
characterizations of any ethnic, racial, sexual or religious groups;
Content that
endorses or condones any violent or harmful activity, behaviour or
conduct;
Personal
information of individuals, including without limitation, names,
addresses (physical or e-mail), phone and/or fax numbers;
Any other
content that is or could be considered inappropriate, unsuitable or
offensive, as determined by the contest organizers and/or the contest
judges in their sole discretion.
WINNER
SELECTION
The winning
logo will be selected by the following process: The panel of judges
will initially review all submissions that are sent during the contest
period. The contest judges reserve the right, in their sole discretion,
to remove any submission, or to request a participant to modify or edit
her submission, if a complaint is received with respect to the
submission, if the submission violates the terms and conditions set
forth in these rules, or for any other reason. The panel of judges will
consist of five members of the conference committee, selected to
represent varied communities and regions in Canada.
Criteria for
judging may include, but are not limited to:
Relevance to
women and HIV/AIDS in Canada;
Visual
appeal; and
Suitability
for use as the official logo of the Second National Conference on Women
and HIV/AIDS in Canada
To be
declared a winner, the selected participant must sign and return within
10 business days of notification a declaration and release, which,
among other things:
Assigns all
intellectual property, including copyright, in and to her submission
Agrees to
indemnify the contest organizers, the contest judges and affiliated
organizations against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, costs,
and expenses arising from use of their submission; including without
limitation, any claim that her artwork infringes a proprietary interest
of any third party.
PRIZE
The creator
of the winning logo will receive a $250 gift certificate to the store
of her choice. The Project Coordinator for the National Conference on
Women and HIV/AIDS will be in touch with the winner directly to arrange
for prize selection and delivery.
COPYRIGHT
By entering
the contest, all participants agree as follows: (i) that the contest
and conference organizers will have the right to publish, display,
reproduce, modify, edit or otherwise use the submission in whole or in
part on the website, letters, advertisements, press releases, programs
and all other materials related to the Second National Conference on
Women and HIV/AIDS in Canada, (ii) to release and hold harmless the
contest organizers, the contest judges and affiliated organizations
against any and all claims, injury or damage arising out of or in
relating to participation in the contest, and further against any
claims based on publicity rights, defamation, invasion of privacy,
copyright infringement, trade-mark infringement or any other
intellectual property related cause of action.
About the
National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS in Canada
The first
National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS was held in May of 2000. In
the ten years following this event, significant changes have occurred
in the experiences, needs and resources available to women, transwomen
and girls living with, affected by and at risk for HIV/AIDS in Canada.
By bringing together women, activists, researchers, service and
healthcare providers, policymakers and other stakeholders, the second
National Conference on Women and HIV/AIDS will offer participants the
opportunity to engage in dialogue and to exchange knowledge and skills
to better understand and respond to the current and diverse needs of
women in Canada. Tentatively scheduled for the fall of 2011, the
National Conference is founded on the principal of multi-stakeholder
engagement, such that diverse individuals, communities and groups will
be invited to participate in the event and its development. Ultimately,
we want this to be a conference by and for the women who are affected
by HIV/AIDS in Canada, and the many individuals, groups and
institutions working with them.
THANK YOU FOR
YOUR INTEREST!
Are you a
Community Worker,Leader or Role Model?
Chee Mamuk,
Aboriginal Program, BC Centre for Disease Control invites you to submit
an application to
Around
The Kitchen Table (ATKT)
Participate
in a 4-day training October 4-7,2010 in Vancouver, BC
ATKT is a
successful, traditional model for HIV,hepatitis and sexual health
education that focuses on training teams of women in Aboriginal
communities to be leaders
Contact:
Jessica Chenery, ATKT Project coordinator,atktcoordinator@bccdc.ca
ph:604-707-5647
MVUAS Metro
Vancouver Urban Aboriginal
Strategy Steering Committee: Call for Members
You are
invited to submit your application to become a member of the Metro
Vancouver Aboriginal Strategy (UAS) Steering Committee.
We are
currently looking to fill the vacant Elder position on the committee.
The Steering
is looking for volunteers that are motivated to look at and addressing
the needs in the Urban Aboriginal community in Metro Vancouver.Which
could include disscussing policy changes with all three levels of
government to working with service organizations to help find ways to
improve service offerings.The Steering Committee also works with
associations and places of education to raise awareness of Urban
Aboriginal issues.In addition, the Steering Committee makes
reccomendations to all levels of government and others in the community
about which projects and initiatives should be supported. If you are
interested or have expertise in the issues effecting the Urban
Aboriginal people, we encourage you to submit your application to join
the Committee.
Please see
the website for further details and a application http://www.mvuas.ca
CATIE
Join
the many Aboriginal people and
organizations using and adding to CATIE's free HIV and hepatitis C
information services
Take
advantage of hundreds of free HIV and
hepatitis C resources from CATIE and partners across Canada. These
resources are available through the CATIE Ordering Centre at our
website. Resources like the CATIE Aboriginal outreach poster are
availalbe in English and French and can be ordered easily online or by
phone for your sommunity bulletin board or waiting room. This poster
was developed to help raise awareness, among Aboriginal people in
Canada, of CATIE's HIV and hepatitis C services.The poster was based on
original artwork by an Aboriginal artist, with consultation from the
CATIE Aboriginal Advisory Committee.
Visit
our website to get your free membership
and to learn about many more free resources and services
The
involvement of Aborginal people and
organizations from across Canada helps make our servies stronger for
everyone. We invitte you to join CATIE.Go to http://www.catie.ca
and click on the
"CATIE FREE MEMBERSHIP" icon on the right side of the screen to fill
your membership form.
Together we
can improve quality of life for people
with HIV and people with hepatitis C and we can reduce transmission.
1-800-263-1638 http://www.catie.ca
Canadian
Treatment Action Council
CTAC Youth
Environmental Scan
What
is this project about?
A research
team consisting of people from the Canadian Action Treatment Council
is conducting an environmental scan of care treatment supports for
young people living with HIV (YPLHIV) in Canada. The environmental scan
will be conducted with the help of youth-led and youth serving
community-based orhanizations across Canada. CTAC will engage
HIV-positive young people to examine barriers to accessing HIV
treatment and care. The environmental scan will help CTAC and its
community, clinical, research partners and youth-led and youth serving
organizations to improve access
to care and treatment for YPLHIV. It is about making sexual healht
services better for youth living in Canada.
As part of
this project, we want to hear from differnet youth between the age of
30 and youth serving organizations to:
1) Engage
youth-led and youth serving organizations in examing local barriers to
Young People Living with HIV and Aids
2)Build a
national Young People Living with HIV (YPLHIV) Working Group which will
provide ongoing leadership in program development, policy engagement
and community-based research.
3)Identify
the range of support and care services which young people believe are
youth-friendly and those which are appropiate for YPLHIV.
4) Identify
best practices in provisions of youth-friendly HIV care and treatment
services and reccommendations for greater support and recognition of
the value of youth-led support, care and treatment initiatives.
5) Generate
reccommendations for community-based and clinical services providers to
make their treatment and care services more youth-friendly.
What
do I have to do?
If you are a
youth under the age 30 answer questions about how you get information
about care and treatment where yo go when you need help.
If you work
with youth in a community group,agency,drop in, clinic,or AIDS Service
Organization, answer questions.
What
will happen to the information?
This info
will be used to plan advocacy and programs for youth across Canada. We
will also share the results by writing a report and developing creative
ways to share our findings with various groups, organizations and
communities from coast to coast.
Will
it be private?
Yes. There
will be no way of connecting you with the info you share with us. Only
the research team will be able to see your finished survey-You will
only be identified as having responded to our omline survey.
Who
can I contact if I have questions about the survey?
If you have
questions about the project you can contact Fiona Knight, Poilicy
Manager at email fiona@ctac.ca
http://www.ctac.ca
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