Human Rights & Equity Office

Women's Campus Safety Initiatives

The following projects were funded in the the 1999/2000 grant year:

Acceptance Without Limits

Programs and activities to promote positive body image messages

Campus Safe Walk

Advertising of services, purchase of supplies and equipment

Central Students Association - Human Rights Office

Programming for anniversary of the Montreal Massacre, Black History Month, International Women's Day, Anti-Racism
Workshops about concepts of dominance, oppression & privilege
Outreach project to facilitate creation of a First Nations Campus Club

Centre for Students with Disabilities

Transportation for women students w/disabilities, peer helpers and CSD volunteers
Multiple chemical sensitivity awareness campaign

Child Care Centre

Improvements to exterior lighting

Co-Op Bookstore

Purchase of safety mirror

College d'Alfred

Creation of an information centre, human rights awareness workshops
Lighting improvements

Counseling & Student Resource Centre, Wellness Centre

Operating expenses for Men Against Sexual Aggression (MASA) program

Couple & Family Therapy

Lighting improvements

East Hall Residence

Lighting improvements

First Response Team

Advertising, supplies and equipment, general operating expenses

Guelph Queer Equality & Legal Resource Room & CSA Human Rights Office

Speaker series on women and access to justice

Guelph Queer Equality

Resource library enhancement
Queer awareness campaign

Human Rights & Equity Office

International Women's Day event

Interhall Council

Workshop on women's safety and equality

Kemptville College

Signage, lighting improvements, seminar on date rape, cell phones, purchase of sexual assault booklet

Legal Resource Room Collective

Add to resource collection

Munford Centre

Purchase of resources and equipment

OPIRG

Improve accessibility to OPIRG building

OUTline

Phone line, pager and training expenses

School of Landscape Architecture

Safety improvements to building

Student Housing

Buttons promoting safety for lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgendered persons

Women's Resource Centre

Wen-do courses
First aid training and first aid kit
Add to resource collection
Staff and volunteer training; anti oppression workshops
Speaker series for women of colour; women of colour safety network
Women's health conference
Fix-it workshops

Women's Studies

Secure glass display case; speaker series

For more information about the Women's Campus Safety Initiatives funding, please contact the Chair of the WCSI, Mahejabeen Ebrahim , at the Human Rights and Equity Office, (519) 824-4120, ext. 53000.