Training Across Distance

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Join Nancy Poole and Ginny Gonneau from the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, for the Girls, young women and alcohol – how girls empowerment groups can play a role in prevention of heavy alcohol use by girls & young women

Training Across Distances Workshops - It's time to register!

The Amplify Training Across Distance’s monthly workshops are a great tool to keep skill-building and exchanges going throughout the year for young women, programmers and frontline workers.

The sessions are an opportunity to share resources, best practices and good ideas. It is a moment for capacity and networking building.

For Girls Action, the workshops are really important to support your work with girls, young women and in social justice all across Canada. It is a time to continue conversations started at the trainings, begin new ones and build a community of influence.

The workshops take place once a month and offer a chance to deepening the discussion of some of the issues that girls and young women are facing across de country.

Next Workshop:
Join Nancy Poole and Ginny Gonneau from the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health, for the Girls, young women and alcohol – how girls empowerment groups can play a role in prevention of heavy alcohol use by girls & young women a webcast on March 24, 9-10 am PST, noon-1 pm EST.

  • Participants will have the opportunity to discuss how/if prevention of heavy alcohol use among girls is/might be incorporated in your programming. And Nancy and Ginny will share research on: current trends in binge drinking by girls and young women; key influences on girls' alcohol use; girl-specific health impacts of early and heavy alcohol use, and resources that may useful in your health promotion/prevention work.

TO REGISTER, please send an email with the subject “Girls webcast” to bccewh@cw.bc.ca by March 10. The instructions on how to log into the webcast will be sent to registrants prior to the event.

Visit the Girls Action website to view follow-up podcasts, key learnings and resources that will be posted following each of the sessions.

For more information please contact janine@girlsactionfoundation.ca or call 1.888.948.1112

Production of this webcast has been made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada. The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of Health Canada.

In partnership with: British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health

Event date: 
2011-01-25 12:00 - 13:00