PATHWAYS TO LEADERSHIP

September 30th is Orange Shirt Day, or the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. It’s a day to honour the children who never returned home, residential school survivors, their families, and communities. One of the ways we can honour survivors is to push for the completion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) 94 Calls to Action. 🧡 Local governments have an important role to play in implementing the Calls to Action. An action you can take in the lead up to September 30th is to email your council asking them what they’re doing to make progress on the Calls to Action for local government. We’ve made it easy for you! Check out the letter template at the link in bio and if you want more ideas of actions to take check out our blog post on the website. ➡️🔗 . . . . . . . . [White text on orange background that reads "September 30th is Orange Shirt Day. Use our letter template to write to your council ahead of September 30." alongside an orange flower and illustrated shoes.]

Staged Reading: Fire Never Dies: The Tina Modotti Project - Carmen Aguirre Join us on February 2 at 4:00 pm for a special glimpse into a new play-in-progress by Electric Company Theatre Core Artist Carmen Aguirre.

📢 We're delighted to announce that we have a new program starting in September! Pathways to Leadership is a skill building and personal development program for racialized newcomer women interested in making change in their community. 😍

Childcare, bus tickets, and interpretation support available. Each participant will receive seed funding for a civic engagement project at the end of the program.

Sound interesting? Please register here for our info session on September 21st:
https://forms.gle/A6YNu31vPiPRyp4QA

Pathways to leadership is program with a difference creates space and opportunities for immigrant and refugee women
Next one starting soon at YWCA on burrard street , Vancouver

Pathways is making a differenceif you are interested a program is soon starting at YWCA Vancouver !

Hi all ; let's meet up

Hey lovely women pictures from the current pathways to leadership program for immigrant women at YWCA
Thinking of you all ❤

Everything comes to you in the right moment. Be patient.

Pathways to Leadership Program for Immigrant Women was developed by Priti Shah and delivered to four groups at Frog Hollow and Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House in Vancouver. Throughout the course, the classes met weekly in the mornings for two and a half hours and participants had home assignments between classes. Child minding was provided on site for all sessions of the program. The program facilitator/educator, Priti Shah, had the support of the Neighbourhood House staff and two practicum students from the University of British Columbia.
The methodology of Pathways is based on adult education principles and popular education. The facilitator uses self reflection and personal experience to guide women to wxplore their values, strengths and interests, as well as supporting them to take risks. Participants are encouraged to identify and use their inherent strenght and power. This validates their struggles and experiences, creates space for their unheard voices, gives them the opportunities to gain understanding of systemic barriers, develops their self advocacy skills and builds capacity.
The program design builds on principles of experiential learning and citizen empowerment found in adult education and community development literature. The course incorporates the nine essential workplace skills: reading, writing, numeracy. compurer use, document use, thinking, oral communication, working with others and continuous learning. There are five modules, 53 hours in lenght. Facilitators may change the order of the topics but it is ideal to complete all modules to arrive at the stated program outcomes. The following activities: Unlearning Stereotypes (Module 3, Activity 2), Dynamics of Power and Privilege (Module 3, Activity 3), and the four activities on Racism (Module 4, Activities 1,2,3 & 4), are essential to include as these are the activities that participants found the most transformative and impactful.

"When I dare to be powerful - to use my strenght in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid. - Audre Lorde".