Human Rights & Equity Office
Women's Campus Safety Initiatives
The following projects were funded in the 2000/2001 grant year:
Acceptance without Limits
- Campaign to provide students with positive messages about their bodies and to discourage eating disorders
- Purchase and installation of a blue emergency pole outside the sports dome
- Purchase of two way radios for volunteers who accompany staff and students across campus during evening hours
- Purchase of banners to promote Safe Walk's services and to recruit volunteers
- Printing of plasticized cards with emergency phone numbers for campus and community organizations
- Anti-oppression video discussion project to educate students about human rights issues and the general links of oppression which bind them together
- Provision of transportation after hours for women with disabilities, volunteers and peer helpers who work with students with disabilities
- Compilation of safety related resources for women with disabilities
- Purchase of films to raise awareness of women's issues and human rights
- Funding for a coordinator to oversee events relating to women's issues and human rights and to maintain resource centre
- Self defence course for women
- Purchase of an intercom system to link the student residence to the security staff
- Installation of an entry alert device at the main entrance of the media centre
- The Ally Program - a campaign to encourage support for LGBT/Queer rights and equality
- Creation and distribution of information packages about the support and resources provided by GQE and related community services for the queer community, to be distributed to local high schools and University of Guelph community
- Raise awareness of queer issues by distributing buttons and stickers that have positive messages and designs to those who support the queer community
- Revision of the Sexual Assault Services Guide for Guelph-Wellington County which provides information regarding on and off campus services for victims/survivors of sexual assault and domestic violence
- Purchase of cell phones for women travelling off campus
- Self-defence course for women
- Improve accessibility of library elevators by installing audible signals to identify floor numbers and by lowering elevator buttons
- Workshops and seminars delivered by males to male peers about sexual aggression and violence against women
- Purchase of resources, International Women's Day Programming and web site design for the Munford Centre, which provides support, advocacy and referral for people of colour and aboriginal people
- Renovations to improve accessibility of the OPIRG offices for people with disabilities
- Phone, pager and volunteer training expenses for OUTline, an organization which provides support and resources for the transgender, bisexual, lesbian and gay community of the University of Guelph
- Installation of a blue emergency pole outside of War Memorial Hall
- Speakers and displays to celebrate March 21, the International Day for the Elimination of Racism
- Reading by a Metis poet, and a public lecture on women and diversity, focussing on the experience of women marginalized by race, sexual orientation, and disability.
- A conference on partner violence, with a specific focus on violence in same sex relationships.
- Projects to update a referral rolodex, and to update the WRC web site, in order to provide more accessible and comprehensive information
- Child care subsidies for women participating in WRC training and events
- Community circle: retreat to build solidarity/networking among aboriginal women, women of colour and international women
- Self-defence workshops for women and women of colour
- Bicycle maintenance and emergency repair workshops