Arising Women Place - There is a Way Out of Abuse

PREVIOUS PROJECTS

SOFT FITNESS: FREE YOGA & BELLY DANCING CLASSES

FOR SENIORS (WOMEN, MEN) @ 4205 Lawrence Ave. East on Mondays
Women & Girls only @ 90 Mornelle Court on Mondays
@ The Storefront 4040 Lawrence Av. East on Fridays

Soft fitness is a two year program designed to increase physical mobility and safety, to decrease isolation by providing accessible and cost effective fitness exercises and self defense classes suitable for a wide range of ages, gender and body groups.

Come and

• Interact with others
• Learn how to breath, How to relax, How to move, How to dance
• Improve you agility
• Feel better about yourself
• Improve your health

Arising women thanks the Ontario Trillium Foundation for funding this project and for its commitment to making East Scarborough a vibrant neighborhood.

Arising Women &

in partnership with

& the YWCA Scarborough Village/ SOAR program present:

INDEPENDENT WOMEN

Length of Project: 1 Year - From April 2007 to March 2008

INDEPENDENT WOMEN is A FREE program aiming to:

• Increase girls’ awareness of opportunities for careers in areas in which women have traditionally not been highly represented by exposing girls to positive role models in such careers in a series of 10 “Lunch and Learn” meetings per year
• Build up marginalized low income immigrant women’s needed skills and capacities of becoming entrepreneurs and self-employed by offering training in cooking classes and jewelry making.

LEGAL KNOWLEDGE is a bilingual three year project, from 2007 to 2010.

Legal Knowledge / Connaissances Légales, Arising Women in partnership with Le Centre Francophone de Toronto, SALCO, and other partners will offer women with workshops on various legal topics and one-on-one consultations for private questions.

The workshops and 1-0-1 consultations are offered to women at Arising Women and in various locations (on demand) in French as well as in English. Culturally sensitive interpreters are available upon request.

Arising Women thanks the Law Foundation of Ontario for funding this program.

LUNCH AND LEARN SESSIONS

Are you a grade 10, 11 or grade 12 student?

• Register for a “Lunch & Learn” with impressive positive role models.
  You will learn about their academic trajectory, their job’s requirements, their satisfactions and challenges and more.
• Book now to meet with women in construction, women politicians, women engineers, women police officers, movies producers, CEOs, University Professors, Bankers, Professional speakers, Journalists, doctors, Law practitioners, etc.

To register, please call: ARISING WOMEN @ 416-281-6662 or visit us at 4125 Lawrence Avenue East, Suite 101 ( Medical Building South West of Lawrence.) AW’s “Lunch & Learn” sessions will resume in September.

FREE JEWELRY MAKING CLASSES

Are you interested in jewelry making?

• Come and learn from the best in Toronto. Become financially independent soon.

What you will get and keep for free:

• A visit to wholesalers/ distributors
• A tool kit & needed materials
• A four weeks training valued at $ 1 250.00
• A self-made portfolio for your advertisement
• A business plan

Class A: August 28, September 4, 11, 18 & 25

Class B: August 30, September 7, 14, 21 & 28.

Limited spots.
Commitment & discipline required. Lunch & TTC provided. To register, please call:
ARISING WOMEN @ 416-281-6662 or visit us at 4125 Lawrence Avenue East, Suite 101 ( Medical Building South West of Lawrence.)

FREE COOKING CLASSES FOR WOMEN

Are you interested in learning professional cooking?

• Come and learn from the Second Harvest Kitchen. Become financially independent soon.

What you will get and keep for free:

• A cook’s suit
• A Chef’s set of knives
• A free 16 weeks training valued at$ 3.500.00
• Assistance in job search.
• Participation in & Benefits of the YWCA’s SOAR program.
• Business & soft skills
• Childcare subsidy and TTC available to OW recipients

This 16 week training starts August 13, 07 & ends December 11.

Limited spots left. Commitment & discipline required. To register, please call:
ARISING WOMEN @ 416-281-6662 or visit us at 4125 Lawrence Avenue East, Suite 101 ( Medical Building South West of Lawrence.)

Arising Women’s achievements

Arising Women’s mandate is to work with women and girls by providing support, skills and education so that they may achieve their full potential for positive social development and economic autonomy.

We believe that prevention, education and economic independence are crucial in decreasing various forms of violence in women’s lives. For instance, we are currently offering jewelry making and cooking classes to promote women’s self-employment. This program is funded by Status of Women Canada. Educational projects are offered to women and men, girls and boys on an on-going basis. Here are some of Arising Women’s milestones.

• From 2000 to 2002, as a self-funded organization, Arising Women provided assistance to women in motels alongside Kingston Road, for court accompaniments, bailing, written and verbal translations, spiritual connections, food and clothing assistance, etc…
• From 2002 to 2007, Arising Women has offered employment to 11 women.
• From 2004 to 2007, 11 students were hired through Service Canada Summer Program. Besides the translators and website designers, the students are usually trained as peer educators and provide workshops on violence against women and girls and workshops on HIV/AIDS to their peers throughout summer.
• In 2004, Arising Women hired 5 newly graduates for the Career Focus Program in our project “One Step to Leadership”. All participants were able to be hired thereafter.
• In December 2007, through Service Canada Career Focus program, Arising Women hired and is currently working with 4 college and university graduates on its project “Building Capacities. The positions for this project include a media liaison/event coordinator, a community and educational institutions liaison, a corporate liaison and a client liaison/outreach worker.
• In 2002, Arising Women offered “Refuse the Abuse” in partnership with the Department of Justice. Refuse the Abuse provided 20 workshops to women and girls, boys and men and parents and caregivers on various topics on Violence against Women and girls. Arising Women thanks the Storefront for its gracious collaboration.
• In 2003-2004, the City of Toronto funded our project “There is a Way Out”, a peer support program for two years. Arising Women thanks the Storefront for its gracious collaboration.
• From 2004 to 2007, Refuse the Abuse was funded for three years by the Ontario Trillium Foundation offering a total of 60 workshops at the East Scarborough Storefront, in youth shelters, family residences, women shelters, churches, employment services and the like. Arising Women thanks the Barbra Shliefer Legal Clinic, the Storefront and the Second Harvest for their gracious collaboration.
• In 2003, the Department of Justice funded our project “Peaceful Resolution” providing Conflict Resolution techniques to community members and community workers and to training in Conflict Resolutions. Arising Women thanks l’Institut du Leadership de l’Ontario for its collaboration.
• In 2005, Status of Women Canada funded our project “One Step Further” providing a peer support and advocacy group. Arising Women thanks the Storefront for its gracious collaboration.
• In 2003, as a member of the French Language Services Metal Health and Addiction Network of Toronto Committee, Arising Women conducted a workshop on “The Effects of Immigration on individual’s Mental Health” in the francophone forum on mental health and addiction. In 2004, Arising Women conducted a workshop on the use of Khat as a recreational drug. In June 2005, Arising Women supervised and conducted workshops in the “Health, Equity and Diversity” Local Realities & International Perspectives Conference.
• In 2007, Status of Women Canada is funding our new project “Independent Women” training women in cooking and jewelry making classes for self-employment purposes while offering girls Learn & Lunch sessions where they meet with positive role models. Arising Women thanks the Boys & Girls Club Scarborough, the Second Harvest, Residents Rising and the Melville Presbyterian Church for their gracious collaboration.
• From 2007 to 2010, through its new bilingual project Legal Matters / Connaissances Légales, Arising Women in partnership with Le Centre Francophone de Toronto, SALCO, and other partners will offer women with legal matters related workshops and one-on-one consultations. Legal Knowledge / Connaissances Légales is funded by the Law Foundation of Ontario.
• Since November 2007, Arising Women is hosting a City of Toronto nutrition program geared to mothers of children from 6 months to six years.
• In 2007, Arising Women secured its first corporate sponsorship. The Private Investment Club, the biggest Real Estate Investment Club in Ontario supports Arising Women financially. On December 8, 2007, the Private Investment Club in partnership with Arising Women & Status of Women Canada- Independent Women project will offer a one day seminar to women on how to become a real estate investor. The seminar will be held at Scarborough Civic Centre.