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Take Back the Night
The Take Back the Night March is a public protest organized by women, for women. It serves as the means for women to unite and voice our desire to end the fear and shatter the silence surrounding sexual violence, domestic violence, rape and hate crimes affecting all genders and sexual orientations. Each year the Saskatoon Women's Community Coalition (SWCC) works to gather women, men and children together to march and rally in protext against gender based violence.
Please join Megan Monday, September 27th at Vimy Memorial at 7 pm. There will be a short presentation from the Silent Witness program with a march to follow. We invite you to come out and join us in supporting this event - look for the Tamara's House banner. For further details, please contact Megan 693-8667.
Programming News
Medicine Horse Therapy Program
If you are an adult female survivor of childhood sexual abuse and/or living with the legacy of residential school abuse, you are eligible to take part in this program. The deadline to apply is August 31, 2010. Participants will be chosen through an interview process. Please call Tamara's House (ASAP!) at 683-8667 to set up an interview. For further information please contact Kelly 683-8667or see Harmony Song page.
Harmony Song Traditional Story Telling will be Monday evenings from 6:00 pm to 7:30pm at Cumfi in the meeting room located in the basement. For further information please contact Kelly in the Drop In 683-8667 or see Harmony Song page.
Monthly Sweat Lodge ceremonies now offered. We will be leaving Tamara's House at 10:00 am sharp Friday September 17th. Please notify Kelly from Drop In 683-8667 should you require a ride or for further details see Harmony Song page.
New Resources
Tamara's House has received some new books for our resource library,located in the Indigo Room by the front office. The following books have been donated:
Reclaiming Our Lives: Hope for Adult Survivors of Incest
Carol Poston and Karen Lison
Reclaiming the Heart: A Handbook of Help and Hope for Survivors of Incest
Mary Beth McClure
Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child Laura Davis
I Can't Get Over It: A Handbook for Trauma Survivors Aphrodite Metsakis, Ph. D.
We are trying to reorganize this collection to make it more useful to service users, without making it too much like a formal library. Books will be loosely organized by shelf e.g. one shelf for sexual abuse issues, one for other forms of violence, one for phyical health etc. Most of these books have been donated, but we occasionally have money available to purchase resources, so if there are books you would recommend, please let us know. Books may be borrowed for a few weeks at a time, just sign them out at the front desk.
In Our Community
Domestic Violence Drop In Group Family Service Saskatoon is offering a group for women who are currently experiencing or have experienced abuse in their intimate partner relationships. Participants can join the group at any time and child care will be provided. Groups are Thursday afternoons 1:30 - 3pm at Family Service Saskatoon 102 - 506-25th Street East. For more information please call 244-0127.
SCYAP Drop In Art Centre for all ages Tuesday and Thursday evenings at 5:30 to 9 pm and Saturday 1 to 6 pm. Free instructional art workshops. Everyone welcome!
Urban Canvas Project is now accepting applicants for full time students for September 2010. UCP runs for 39 weeks, Monday-Friday 10am to 5:30pm. SCYAP is looking for applicants that can draw and enjoy it, unemployed and not in school, and would like the opportunity to further develop art skills and gain employment skills. Students are eligible to earn a living allowance of over $300.00 per week for training. The program includes art training, life skills, personal development, empowerment and employment readiness training. For further information please contact Tammy @ 306-652-7760 or check out the website
SWITCH Women's Community Dinner will be Monday September 13th 5:30 to 8pm at Westside clinic, 1528 20th St West. All women are welcome to the free come and go dinner.
