Over the past few weeks, we’ve been discussing the YWCA Calgary’s Practice Framework and its impact on the YW. This week, we’re taking a hiatus from the Practice Framework series to talk about the historic change at the YW. This week, after five years of vision, programmatic and strategic organizational change, YWCA changed their name [...]
YWCA Practice Framework Series: Language Matters The YWCA Practice Framework is a comprehensive document developed to focus and guide staff at the YWCA in a unified philosophy and was developed with expert consultation with frontline staff, leadership and external stakeholders. The document also serves to clarify for the general public the YWCA’s clear focus on [...]
The YWCA Practice Framework is a comprehensive document developed to focus and guide staff at the YWCA in a unified philosophy and was developed with expert consultation with frontline staff, leadership and external stakeholders. The document also serves to clarify for the general public the YWCA’s clear focus on women, particularly those who are vulnerable. [...]
The YWCA Practice Framework is a comprehensive document developed to focus and guide staff at the YWCA in a unified philosophy and was developed with expert consultation with frontline staff, leadership and external stakeholders. The document also serves to clarify for the general public the YWCA’s clear focus on women, particularly those who are [...]
The YWCA Practice Framework is a comprehensive document developed to focus and guide staff at the YWCA in a unified philosophy and was developed with expert consultation with frontline staff, leadership and external stakeholders. The document also serves to clarify for the general public the YWCA’s clear focus on women, particularly those who are [...]
The YWCA Practice Framework is a comprehensive document developed to focus and guide staff at the YWCA in a unified philosophy and was developed with expert consultation with frontline staff, leadership and external stakeholders. The document also serves to clarify for the general public the YWCA’s clear focus on women, particularly those who are [...]
The news this week is flooded by the inquiry into Justice Robin Camp’s performance during a sexual assault trial in 2014. A rare inquiry is determining whether Justice Camp’s comments at trial – including questioning why the victim “couldn’t just keep her knees together” – are so unbefitting a judge that Camp should lose his [...]
Social media gives birth to many trends, from the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge to planking, but one of the most alarming recent trends is #RelationshipGoals and its reference to the new movie, Suicide Squad. The hashtag and the posts that followed idealized a relationship that in no uncertain terms is physically, emotionally and psychologically [...]
The Canadian women in the 2016 Rio Olympics have lit the stage with dazzling athletic performances winning the majority of Canada’s medals. The gold medal count began with Penny Oleksiak, and it was not until Day 9 that a male athlete won a medal. Despite the numerous achievements of the female athletes, there was a [...]
August brings the end of summer and starts a countdown to the beginning of school for all types of students. For many first-year university students, it’s an exciting time in their lives with the beginning of their post-secondary education and their first steps into adulthood. But the start of university brings the highly anticipated, controversial [...]
