The statement that begins on this page appears in front of each resource booklet. Then there is a short piece written by the woman who developed that particular booklet. In this collection, we have included all the pieces written by the women and a sample Table of Contents from one of the booklets.

Resource Booklets
Pine Grove Correctional Centre, Prince Albert, SK

We know that people do not have to experience something before they can learn. For example, not everyone has to bum themselves before they stay away from something hot. It's helpful for another person to tell us, "Don't touch that or you'll get burned!" So, too, when someone becomes hurt another can say, "When that happened to me, I did thus and thus."

We can benefit from others' experiences.

By women sharing their own experiences and how they themselves were or were not able to deal with them, we can learn. We can learn as individuals and as society by listening to women who have suffered and who are healing.

We would like to express our appreciation to CCLOW (Canadian Congress for Learning Opportunities for Women). We developed these resource booklets as part of our participation in an action research project sponsored by CCLOW and funded by the National Literacy Secretariat. With eleven other adult literacy, basic education and academic upgrading programs from across Canada, we explored what happens when some women in a program decide to do something woman-positive. These booklets are what we decided to do.

Our appreciation also goes out to Pine Grove Correctional Centre in Prince Albert, Saskatchewan for encouraging a woman-positive activity as part of their philosophy.

Please feel free to photocopy any booklet for your benefit.