Monday, January 16 is the General Meeting for CFUW Oakville. The Keynote speaker will be Dr. Laurel Trainor of McMaster University's Department of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour. The topic is: How Music Affect Brain Development.
On Monday, members will be asked to vote on a motion to nominate Teri as Vice President, Advocacy on the CFUW National Board. Below are highlights of Teri's Advocacy experience.
See you at the Operating Engineers Banquet Hall at 7:00 for the social hour.
Anne Douglas
CFUW Oakville, President
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Teri Shaw CFUW Advocacy Highlights, 2010 – 2011
January 8, 2012
Administrative:
· Advocacy Strategic Plan, passed by Board, June 2011
· Policies including Partnerships, Advocacy guidelines
· Study on Board Committees, September 2011
· Established Advocacy Committee involving the Advocacy Standing Committees
· Analysis of Advocacy Communications tools
What happened at National:
· Resolutions – advocacy
o Create the tool-kits for resolution advocacy
o The highlight this year is Irwin Cotler's Private member's bill on Non-State Torture
· Working with parliament
o Briefs to Finance on the Budget
o Called to speak to the Committee on the Status of Women to speak on the long-form census;
o Called to speak to the Liberal Women's Caucus
o Major campaign on the Gun Registry over the past two years; won the battle, but ultimately lost the war
o A number of one-on-one MP meetings, including the Minister of the Status of Women's office
o National creates packages of template letters and information sheets for clubs on a number of topics
· Working with NGOs
o Projects with a number of them, like Elizabeth Fry on the current Crime Omnibus Bill; on projects for International Women's Day; with the Grandmothers to Grandmothers concerning Canada's Access to Medicine Regime, for example
o Working with the Ad Hoc Coalition for Women's Equality and Human Rights, a roundtable of national women's organization. We are attempting to support it in some fashion as funding is being cut for most of the organizations
· Working with clubs & club members:
o Campaigns – "Policy to Action" establish a new method to use policy rather than just create new resolutions every year
o Study groups – Aboriginal Study Group, Afghan Focus Group and the Child Care Initiative
o Issue Liaisons – reviving a project involving members monitoring issues for us.
· What do I do:
o As mentioned earlier, the Strategic Plan and two studies; created and work with the Advocacy Committee; established policies and projects
o Assist and work with the advocacy Standing Committees
o Vet letters and activities
o Assist with the new website
