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The
Herstory, Risk and Survival of BC Women's Centres
A Discussion Paper
| May 2003
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V. Women’s Centres Working Together
>> What can Women’s Centres do collectively
to help other Women’s Centres?
The BCCWC Steering Committee compiled information regarding how Women’s Centres
can collectively help other Women’s Centres. This was broken down to
two areas.
The first main area of collectivity revolves around resource sharing.
This includes a coalition website, which was launched on March 8th 2002 and
is updated on a regular basis. The centres can also share research
information and skills to expand experience and their knowledge base.
One of the main ways this is done now, and will continue to be done, is through
the BCCWC list-serve, which provides a fast, relatively easy and cost-effective
way to share these resources and skills. The Committee also felt it
would be valuable to create a central archive in which information would
be readily available. One of the important ways that Women’s Centres
can help each other is by sharing their successes and problems. In
this way, Women’s Centres can focus on the tools that will bring them success
rather than each Centre independently “reinventing the wheel.”
The second area in which Women’s Centres can help each other is though education
and awareness. This could include developing and delivering workshops
on various topics including coalition building and anti-oppression.
Within this area, Centres could share anti-oppression tools or other resource
tools that might be useful. Lastly, the Steering Committee believes
that it is important to provide education, awareness and understanding of
the importance and value of the Coalition, and the progress, which it has
made. Women’s Centre, though the BCCWC, can also help each other by
providing a collective, feminist voice as well as coordinating and implementing
province-wide actions and press releases. This collective, provincial
voice can often gain more attention and power than a lone, regional voice
of an individual centre focusing on these areas. Women’s Centres can increase
their level of support to each other, which will prove to be invaluable not
only throughout the next year, but in the long-term.
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