October 12, 2017

New tool release – Engaging Older Women in your Community: A Promising Practices Guide for Women’s and Senior Serving Organizations

Co-authored by Raissa Dickinson Engaging Older Women in your Community is a promising practices tool developed as an outcome of the Older Women’s Dialogue Project (OWDP). The publication is intended to support your agency to anticipate and address structural barriers to the participation of older women in community initiatives aimed Read more…

Older Women’s Dialogue Project: Surviving Violence, Calling for Change

New Older Women’s Dialogue Project Tool Development Group In early 2017, a new Older Women’s Dialogue Project (OWDP) tool development group was launched. In collaboration with Vancouver & Lower Mainland Multicultural Family Support Services Society, the Canadian Centre for Elder Law (CCEL) has been facilitating group meetings with women in Read more…

September 25, 2017

Welcoming Kamala Sproule to the CCEL Team!

We are so pleased to welcome Kamala to our team. Kamala will be supporting our continuing work with older women living in the Lower Mainland. Over the last 15 years, Kamala has worked as an evaluator, a community development worker, and community-based researcher. She has a Masters in Social Work. Read more…

March 7, 2017

We are not all the same: new report of the Older Women’s Dialogue Project released today

  Today we celebrate International Women’s Day. This year’s theme is Be Bold for Change. CCEL’s latest report We Are Not All the Same: Key Law, Policy and Practice Strategies for Improving the Lives of Older Women in the Lower Mainland, addresses the bold question: what about the older women Read more…

December 4, 2015

Project Update: Older Women’s Dialogue

Older Women’s Dialogue Project Update December 4, 2015 Work on the Older Women’s Dialogue Project is progressing as quick as ever and Phase 2 consultations are now complete! The goal of the second phase was to engage groups of women that we were unable to reach in the first year Read more…