On May 7, Ayesha Hasaan joined us along with 50 other participants for our YWCA Keep A Roof Over Their Heads® fundraising event, where participants spend one night on a cot in our Winter Emergency Response program shelter to experience homelessness. Ayesha used the experience as a Toastmasters speech topic and has graciously let us [...]
You cannot be what you cannot see. So goes the motto for the 2011 documentary Miss Representation. Through a critical analysis of media portrayals, the film highlights the criticality of role models in encouraging young women to positions of influence. In this regard, yesterday’s swearing in of Premier Rachel Notley and 11 new cabinet members [...]
Mothers’ Day has a lot of meaning here at the YW. It’s bittersweet. It’s a time when our little Pandas, Bunnies, Koalas and Chipmunks are busy creating artwork and crafts that will be treasured. It’s a time when the women working closely with our job counsellors are polishing up their resumes and bravely knocking on [...]
Media Advisory May 5, 2015 YWCA KEEP A ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS® EVENT On May 7, 2015, the YWCA of Calgary is hosting its 8th annual YWCA KEEP A ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS® fundraising event, presented by Hopewell Residential. Participating Calgarians will gain the opportunity to learn more about the barriers women experiencing homelessness face, [...]
Remember when Barbie told girls math was hard? In October 1992, the Teen Talk Barbie uttered the phrase “math class is tough”, a statement that awarded Mattel Inc. a great deal of criticism from American women’s groups. (NY Times, 1992) Last night, Jim Prentice uttered a similar phrase during the live, televised provincial party leader’s [...]
A great playoff start by our Calgary Flames is worth getting excited about but, this week, I’m also cheering the plucky upstarts behind an emerging campaign for a Safe Red Mile. In response to reports of women being harassed and verbally assaulted in bars and on 17th Avenue following these early games, groups of young [...]
National Volunteer Week, Canada’s largest celebration of volunteerism and civic participation, is April 12 through 18th. Albertans have a rich history of volunteering and community involvement, and have been celebrating National Volunteer Week for more than 20 years. Tip of the hat, Alberta! As the Community Engagement Coordinator at the YWCA of Calgary, I have [...]
“Is that the one where people sleep on cots?” We hear this question a lot in lead up to our annual fundraising event YWCA KEEP A ROOF OVER THEIR HEADS®. The answer in short is, yes. It’s not our most glamorous event, but that’s sort of the point: experiencing one night “homeless” in a YWCA [...]
Cyberbullying, or the use of information technology to repeatedly and deliberately harass other people, is a relatively new term. Yet it has become such a common act since 1998 that we are already in need of a cultural intervention on a global scale. After being publicly silent for a decade, Monica Lewinsky has emerged as [...]
CALGARY, February 20, 2015 - YWCA Parent Link Corridor will join in the celebration of the ten year anniversary of Alberta’s provincial network of Parent Link Centres. More than 50 YWCA Parent Link families will gather at the YWCA of Calgary downtown location for a day of fun, games and entertainment. The day’s theme of play, [...]
