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STARTING OVER - SECOND OPTION -
CORINNE GALLANT &
MADELEINE DUFOUR
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Corinne Gallant is a professor of philosophy at the
University of Moncton. She has been involved in a number of women's projects
and was influential in the formation of a Consultative Council on the Status of
Women in New Brunswick. Recently, she has helped to establish a re-entry
program, Nouveau Depart.
Madeleine Dufour is a counsellor in the Nouveau Depart
program sponsored by the Montreal Y.W.C.A |
Madeleine Dufour, co-ordinator of the program at the Montreal
Y.W.C.A., took the first hour to explain its origin and objectives. She also
indicated which clientele it is intended to reach.
Corinne Gallant, who set up the program for the women at the
University of Moncton, gave more specific details on the possibility of
organizing more of these programs in other communities within the Maritime
provinces.
This program, which reaches women from 35 to 55, aims to help
them make a new start in life. It offers them a series of courses aimed at
helping them to rediscover themselves, orient themselves and get ready either
to take on a new job, go back to school, do volunteer work or go about any
other change in their lives.
Women from the north east, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island,
showed a great deal of interest towards the setting up of such a program in
their regions.
Future meetings have been scheduled in order to discuss the
implementation of this program in Caraquet and Prince Edward Island.
WOMEN'S ACCESS CENTRES - ANNE IRONSIDE
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After obtaining her M.S.W. in 1972, Anne developed the
Women's Resource Centre in the University of British Columbia's Continuing
Education Department and has pioneered and expanded on the concept of life
planning, women's access and educational brokering. Her publications include
the influential report on Women's Access Centres prepared for the B.C. Ministry
of Education, Science & Technology, in 1979. |
A policy to establish Women's Access Centers was developed by
the British Columbia's Ministry of Education in 1978. It acknowledged the
special counseling and information needs of women in life/career planning. Nine
community college based centers have been established, mostly in rural parts of
British Columbia.
The content of this session was the her story of the development
and implementation of that policy as well as an account of the methods used in
The University of British Columbia, Centre for Continuing Education, Women's
Resource Centre on which the original proposal for the Women's Access Centers
was based. |