About Us
What is a Women’s Centre?
A warm and welcoming space where you can:
• Meet other people, share in conversation;
• Get to know yourself better, validate yourself and accept yourself for who you are;
• Acquire tools to improve your physical and psychological health, your emotional and financial autonomy, or simply in order to learn;
• Develop mutually supportive relationships, solidarity and friendships;
• Get involved in a committee or on a project.
Our Mission
The Centre des femmes du Haut-Saint-François La Passerelle is an feminist community organization. Its mission is to provide a welcoming, safe(r), caring and inclusive space which defends and promotes human rights, using an intersectional feminist* approach. The Centre welcomes women, trans, non-binary and gender creative people.
Through services, educational activities and collective action, we aim to achieve the following objectives:
- Break isolation
- Develop the capacity and power to act
- Foster social engagement
- Improve living conditions
- Combat prejudice, discrimination and gender-based violence
APPROACH
*The Center work is rooted in an intersectional feminist approach, which recognizes that people occupy different positions in society and may have privileges. We acknowledge and value all people’s experiences and life paths, taking into account multiple forms of discrimination. Through this approach, the Centre aims for collective change and the improvement of living conditions.
The Centre also fosters a popular education approach.
VALUES
Our work is aimed at dismantling systems of oppressions that generate poverty, violence, discrimination and exclusion.
Our values are equity, social justice, freedom, openness, solidarity and respect.
Meet Our Team
Carole Poulin
Board of Directors
Delphine Ngwenyi Teforlack
Board of Directors
Dora Golden-One
Board of Directors
Edith Blais
Board of Directors
Liming Gendron
Board of Directors
Manon Poulin
Board of Directors
Our Approaches
Intersectional Feminist Approach
(Coming soon)
A feminist approach also supports a comprehensive approach, meaning:
• Considering participants as fully fledged people;
• Supporting participants’ dignity and potential;
• Helping participants understand that experiences which feel unique can, in fact, be shared and understood by others;
• Working with an anti-oppressive approach.
Our History
(Coming soon)
