Fewer children admitted to women's shelters.
Fewer children were admitted to shelters to escape abuse each year between 1998 and 2006, and the number of women admitted to these shelters increased during the past nine years. Statistics Canada reports that nearly 106,000 women and children were admitted to shelters, most often to escape abuse in...

"Battle Fatigue: Identifying Stressors that Affect Counselors in Women's Shelters.".
Chatigny, Celine, Eve Laperriere, Marie-Christine Thibault and Karen Messing. "Battle Fatigue: Identifying Stressors that Affect Counselors in Women's Shelters." Canadian Woman Studies/les cahiers de la femme. Special Issue: Women's Health and Well-Being, vol. 24, no. 1 (Fall 2004), pp. 139-144. A study done by researchers in the...

Domestic violence shelters as prevention agents for HIV/AIDS?
Women are at a heightened risk of experiencing two prominently positioned public health concerns: intimate partner abuse (IPA) and HIV/AIDS. Women are far more likely than men to be raped or physically assaulted by an intimate partner, with seven out of 10 women being raped or assaulted by an...

2008 Gruber Women's Rights Symposium 'ENSURING WOMEN'S RIGHTS IN TIMES OF CONFLICT AND OF PEACE'.
Features International Women Activists Who Challenge Religious, Political and Cultural Biases Yanar Mohammed, Sapana Pradhan Malla and Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian to Receive Prestigious Gruber Women's Rights Prize and its $500,000 Award at Columbia Law School on November 11, 2008 NEW YORK, Nov. 10 /PRNewswire/ -- Hailing...

Need big spending to school homeless.
"At least 2,000 homeless children in Toronto are needlessly at risk of slipping through the cracks of the education system every year," according to a report prepared by the Community Social Planning Council of Toronto and Aisling Discoveries Child and Family Centre. "Neither the school system nor...

A Rough Childhood and Years of Experience in Battered Women Shelters and Drug and Alcohol Clinics Have Provided a Fertile Training Ground for Gail Echeverria, A Better Tomorrow's Primary Interventionist.
MURRIETA, Calif., Dec. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- As a young girl, Gail Echeverria saw things no child should ever see -- heavy drinking by family members, drug use by her father and his friends, and repeated episodes of domestic violence between her mother and father. By the time...

The empowerment dilemma: the dialectic of emancipation and control in staff/client interaction at shelters for battered women.
When she walked through the front door of the enormous brown brick house, she did not know what to expect. It seemed like any of the other houses on the block except for the foreboding, fenced--in yard and the barely visible video camera above the front door. Inside the...

Toward a gender-inclusive conception of intimate partner violence research and theory: part 1--traditional perspectives.
Some three decades after the first shelters for battered women were established in England and the United States, public discourse and public policy on intimate partner violence (IPV) has framed the problem in terms of male perpetration and female victimization. Ideally, policy ought to be informed by unbiased research....

What's a century, we made 150!
They've come a long, long, long way baby! We're talking about the five women who dared to bare... their thoughts that is, about female sexuality and the supposedly censored word 'vagina' . And after crossing barrier after barrier, today, the quintet comprising Mahabanoo Mody-Kotwal , Dolly Thakore,...

Eastern Wisconsin Residents Demonstrate Their Commitment to Being Good Neighbors.
Good Neighbor Day generates truckloads of computers, clothing, other items MILWAUKEE, Nov. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Wisconsin residents demonstrated their desire to be good neighbors during Aurora Health Care's Good Neighbor Day, an effort to collect recyclable and reusable items throughout eastern Wisconsin. Truckloads of computers,...