tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-48347797441766411142024-02-19T11:04:20.533-05:00Igniting ChangeThe Ms. Foundation for Women BlogLAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.comBlogger602125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-91221752003263557822014-12-13T08:13:00.000-05:002014-12-13T08:13:02.730-05:00Ms. Foundation for Women calls for justice and an end to police violence<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;">
Ms. Foundation for Women President and CEO Teresa
C. Younger issued the following statement on December 12, 2014, in support of nationwide marches for
justice and an end to police violence:</div>
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“In Sanford, Florida, Ferguson, Missouri, Staten Island, New
York and countless cities and towns across the country, systemic racism has trumped
justice. The criminal justice system is broken and immediate federal action is
required to fix it. President Obama has proposed measures to restore justice,
including the formation of a new task force to promote effective policing while
building public trust. We reiterate our call on Congress to support the
president’s efforts – and to do even more.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">”Every public
official in this country needs to listen to the victims of the criminal justice
system’s racism. We must lift up the voices of people of color and really
listen to their everyday experiences. Florida. Missouri. New York. No place is
safe if you are a person of color. Walking down the street with a bag of candy.
Knocking on a door to ask for help with a broken car. Walking away from a
police officer. Every activity is a perceived threat if you are a person of
color.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“There are so many
stories of men, boys, women and girls of color who have been victims of the
criminal justice system’s racism, too many to list and far too many to dismiss
as unfortunate mistakes or justified acts of self-defense. Yet, countless
Americans continue to deny the plain truth: In America, the lives of people of
color are not valued or respected.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“The systemic
racism of the criminal justice system is at the root of the wholesale slaughter
of people of color. Until we fix that, people of color will continue to live in
fear and lives will continue to be lost. </span>We must dismantle the system
that kills and unjustly imprisons people of color and rebuild it together, with
all of us at the table – women and men of all colors, LGBTQ people, young and
old, immigrants and Native people, rich and poor, people with disabilities.
Every voice must be heard and valued.<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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“We stand and march with people
across the country who will take the streets on Saturday to call for justice and
demand an end to police violence. We commit to continuing to organize dissent, raise
our voices in outrage and demand reforms to build a nation of justice for all.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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<i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">For 40 years, the </span></i><a href="http://forwomen.org/"><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Ms. Foundation for Women</span></i></a><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> has secured women's rights and
freedoms with a special commitment to building the power of low-income, immigrant
and women of color. The foundation invests funds, time, expertise and training
in nearly 100 trailblazing organizations nationwide.</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-68077607204670271732014-11-28T17:24:00.001-05:002014-12-03T14:16:30.239-05:00Ms. Foundation President and CEO Teresa C. Younger on the Ray Rice appeal<h4 style="text-align: center;">
This issue is not going away for the NFL . . .</h4>
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While we are disappointed in the rationale of the decision to overturn Ray Rice’s suspension, this has always been about more than one case. This issue is not going away for the NFL.</div>
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Despite and because of the repeated fumbles in handling the Rice case, the NFL is at a crossroad. There is much talk of moving forward with bold and effective new policies and programs to change the culture of football. Now, Commissioner Goodell and the NFL franchises must walk the talk. They must dismantle the sexist machine that is the NFL and rebuild it to respect and include women at all levels.</div>
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Public service announcements are a great start. But we want and demand more. Specifically, the NFL and its franchises must:</div>
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<li>Respect women’s voices, including cheerleaders, and integrate women into its workforce of executives, coaches, referees and players – and ensure that women of all colors have equal representation at its tables of power;</li>
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<li>Require all of its vendors and advertisers to respect and value women too; </li>
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<li class="li3">Be culturally competent, inclusive and transparent – including women, people of color and LGBT people among the architects of all NFL policies and programs – not only those pertaining to violence against women; and<br />
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<li class="li3">Further invest in programs that benefit women and will change the culture of sexism within football.</li>
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LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-2019093205794833352014-11-26T14:27:00.002-05:002014-11-26T14:27:18.187-05:00Thankful for Our Feminist Foremothers<h4 style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Ms. Foundation President and CEO Teresa C. Younger share her Thanksgiving reflections . . .</h4>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZC3EJt9gl1kNXdyZxiMTEaUXZeB4qPiSitD_dQsw5fR79OJGwfeTKx0x52k-4t40e5C-lwjdS6Z-wEg42kjH5r7vogFK02tZUbyKoe8iGiElybl3EU2kAFes1KMUE3XBo5ijXMy7Kss/s1600/thanks+colorful.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmZC3EJt9gl1kNXdyZxiMTEaUXZeB4qPiSitD_dQsw5fR79OJGwfeTKx0x52k-4t40e5C-lwjdS6Z-wEg42kjH5r7vogFK02tZUbyKoe8iGiElybl3EU2kAFes1KMUE3XBo5ijXMy7Kss/s1600/thanks+colorful.jpg" height="169" title="thanks" width="320" /></a>This Thanksgiving, I am reminded of how grateful I am for
women who paved the way for me. From Sojourner Truth to Gloria Steinem, I
appreciate the blood, sweat and tears our foremothers sacrificed in their fight
for women’s rights. I also appreciate the friendship and mentoring that has
helped me every step of the way on my path Finally, I am especially grateful
for all the supporters who help move our work for
women forward.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></div>
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor said, “Sometimes, idealistic people
are put off the whole business of networking as something tainted by flattery
and the pursuit of selfish advantage. But virtue in obscurity is rewarded only
in Heaven. To succeed in this world you have to be known to people.”<o:p></o:p></div>
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I couldn’t agree more. One of my early mentors told me that
I have an obligation to introduce two people to each other each day. That’s
because she knew that networking is essential – not only to our success as
individuals, but also to further our cause for women’s empowerment
collectively. We need to expand our networks, mentor other women and constantly
create new circles of collaboration to build the strength we need to be
successful. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Networking is part of my listening tour. During a recent
trip to Pittsburgh, I was able to meet with a host of women leaders, including
the heads of women’s funds there and some of their grantees. Thanks to current
and past Ms. Foundation board chairs Heather Arnet and Cathy Raphael, we were
able to strengthen our ties to allies there. By making those connections in Pittsburgh,
we’re going to be more effective as we continue our work for women throughout
the country. Forging stronger relationships with women’s state and local funds
will enable us to coordinate on campaigns and initiatives where our issues
intersect, maximizing both resources and impact.<o:p></o:p></div>
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My advice to all women: Make as many connections as
possible. Build your personal network of contacts, friends and mentors. Do your
bit to help another woman. All of us have something to offer; mentoring is not
only for executives. After your first weeks on a job, there is always someone
coming up behind you. Reach out and help her – even if it’s only to offer small
bits of advice or information.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Don’t confine your networking to work. Whether you’re at the
grocery store, a basketball game, community meeting or doctor’s appointment,
don’t miss the opportunity to make connections. And be sure to use your
connections to help the causes and organizations that you support. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Women account for half (or more) of the population. Imagine
what we could accomplish if we all worked together. This month, try to make one
new contact or mentor someone. Sisterhood truly is powerful – but only if we
commit to helping our sisters.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<a href="https://salsa4.salsalabs.com/o/51040/p/salsa/donation/common/public/?donate_page_KEY=8562">This
Thanksgiving, consider supporting your sisters in the movement across the U.S.</a><br /><br />
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Thank you for all that you do!</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-85874569193259704812014-09-09T13:14:00.000-04:002014-09-09T13:14:16.897-04:00Ms. Foundation for Women Calls Foul on NFL<div class="CPRBodyText" style="margin-left: 0in;">
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<br /><br />Ms. Foundation for Women President and CEO Teresa Younger issued a statement following the NFL’s response to video footage of Ravens player Ray Rice brutally attacking his then-fiancé.<br /><br />“The public outcry upon seeing videotape of Ray Rice brutally attacking his then fiancé was loud enough to prod Commissioner Roger Goodell and the Ravens to impose stronger penalties – removing Rice from football, at least for now.<br /><br />“This latest reminder of the NFL’s violence against women problem renews concerns about its new policy, which only begins to tackle the issue of domestic violence among NFL players and fails to address the larger issues of other forms of violence against women and rampant misogyny within the NFL.<br /><br />“From the skimpy, sexualized “uniforms” cheerleaders are forced to wear to the denigrating ads during big games from companies like Go Daddy, the NFL shows a pattern of sexism. Even now, the commissioner appears to fall short of implementing systemic change that will get at the root cause of the violence. He may have dropped the ball again by failing to move bold initiatives that do more than punish players by actually supporting women.<br /><br />“The NFL must stop promoting sexism on and off of the field – and start promoting women. (Perhaps it’s time for the commissioner to step aside and a woman to step up.) Goodell must lead by example and show that he and the NFL value women, including women’s leadership in and contributions to football.<br /><br />“As fans, we should be demanding a higher standard of accountability and responsibility from football players and officials. In fact, Goodell only seems to take stronger action when the public outcry has been loud.<br /><br />“Sports fans, we need to demand better. We have the power to force the NFL to change. Join the Ms. Foundation in calling on Goodell to be a leader in ending violence against women.”LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-20554945549127723252014-07-08T08:45:00.000-04:002014-07-08T08:45:00.528-04:00Ms. Foundation grantee's initiative improves women's health with a question...<div class="MsoNormal">
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The following article about the Oregon Women's Health Foundation's initiative to improve women's health by having doctors ask "one key question" appears in Slate Magazine:</div>
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By <a href="http://www.slate.com/authors.julie_f_kay.html">Julie F. Kay</a> and <a href="http://www.slate.com/authors.michele_stranger_hunter.html">Michele
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Last week’s Supreme Court ruling in the Hobby Lobby case may
keep access to contraception out of reach for many women. In sharp contrast, a
new program in Oregon puts reproductive health care front and center for all
women.<o:p></o:p></div>
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The Oregon initiative, called <a href="http://www.onekeyquestion.org/">One Key Question</a>, aims to make sure
that during each medical visit, a woman of reproductive age is asked: “Would
you like to become pregnant in the next year?”<o:p></o:p></div>
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LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-28046172179051831402014-04-25T08:40:00.002-04:002014-04-25T08:40:27.077-04:00Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Fair Food Program hailed for raising standards for low-wage workersMs. Foundation for Women grantee the <a href="http://ciw-online.org/" target="_blank">Coalition of Immokalee Workers</a> (CIW) is featured in a New York Times article about its Fair Food Program. The article reports that the program has been hailed as one of the most effective efforts to raise standards for low-wage workers:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'PT Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 19.600000381469727px;"><b>“'This is the best workplace-monitoring program I’ve seen in the U.S.,' said Janice R. Fine, a labor relations professor at Rutgers. 'It can certainly be a model for agriculture across the U.S. If anybody is going to lead the way and teach people how it’s done, it’s them.'”</b></span></blockquote>
The Fair Food Program implements standards to raise wages and safety standards, including policies to stop verbal and sexual harassment. Key to its success, enforcement of the standards is not left to the employers:<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: 'PT Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: italic; line-height: 21px;"><b>"A former New York State judge, Laura Safer Espinoza, oversees the inspection apparatus, which interviews thousands of workers, audits payrolls and conducts in-depth interviews with farm managers. There are lengthy trainings for crew leaders, and six of them were fired after her team investigated allegations of verbal abuse and sexual harassment."</b></span></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/25/business/in-florida-tomato-fields-a-penny-buys-progress.html?hp&_r=1" target="_blank">Click here to read the entire article. </a>LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-66794315031683884492014-04-24T06:00:00.000-04:002014-04-24T06:00:04.151-04:00Take Our Daughters to Work Day -- 21 years later<div class="MsoNormal">
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Daughters to Work Day; the program that The Ms. Foundation for Women launched
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Based on research by Carol Gilligan and her
colleagues at Harvard, </span><span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Take Our Daughters to Work Day</span><span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">’s publicly stated goal was strengthening the honest voices
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It did its job and changed the lives of millions of girls
across the US and the world. But for the foundation, it was also a Trojan Horse.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Since the research showed that pre-adolescent girls
resisted losing their truth-telling authentic voices, we knew our young female
visitors would remind adult women of the voices of fairness and justice that
they themselves once used, but subsequently silenced. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">And our daughters did not disappoint!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In the workplaces, girls asked probing questions
about women, men and work: why are you
investing in tobacco when you don’t want me to smoke?” “Why aren’t there more
women in the newsroom?” “Your job is
boring…didn’t you ever want to do anything else?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The first year, we toyed with a press conference to
reveal our broader vision. At the close of the day we would have some of our adult
hosts speak about what these “outsider” observations taught them. But we chickened
out. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Eventually, however, we heard stories from workplaces
where girls’ viewpoints altered ad campaigns, policies and even provoked
evaluations of long held practices. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Plus there were the moving stories of girls who looked
at their parent’s work through a different lens, and took pride in working class
jobs that the world does not always honor. As a daughter of the working class,
it moved me when girls wrote us about seeing how valuable the work of a parent
was; especially when the job was one often undervalued by society.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Anywhere I travel, young women come up to tell me
how this day changed their lives. I’m glad to report that many of them are
working on ways that they can play it forward.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The justice seeking voices of girls will enter the workplaces
again this week. But once more, their voices will not just be directed at the
workplace; they will often challenge the unfairness that our country is struggling
with today. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #204b4e; font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">This is the work that we all need to be taken to. My
hope is that our daughter’s voices and their justice-seeking questions will
strengthen our resolve to be a fairer society; one that works for all our
nation’s children.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_GoBack"></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-31991108737026678162014-04-18T12:48:00.000-04:002014-04-18T12:49:40.460-04:00Effort to protect farmworkers from sexual assault is gaining momentum<h4 style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #303494; font-family: 'PT Sans', arial, sans-serif; font-size: 28px; line-height: 1.1em; margin-bottom: 0.5em; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em !important; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">
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In one sector of the agricultural industry, though, that devastating story is starting to change, and two recent articles highlight the gains women farmworkers are seeing in the Florida tomato industry today thanks to the Fair Food Program (FFP). In<a href="http://cltampa.com/potlikker/archives/2014/04/15/lecture-highlights-ciw-achievements-decrease-in-farmworker-exploitation#.U1BJ1V4Wnbl" style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; color: #303494; font-weight: bold; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> the words of the CIW’s Lupe Gonzalo</a>, who worked for years in the tomato harvest before joining the CIW staff two years ago to help educate her fellow workers on their rights under the FFP, “<em style="background-color: transparent; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When we arrive home at the end of the day, we can hug our children happily, knowing that we didn’t have to sell our dignity in the fields. We brought it home with us.”</em></div>
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LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-73499597655655061332014-04-01T10:00:00.000-04:002014-04-01T11:08:53.517-04:00National Latina Institute for Health takes the fight for women's health to the UN<br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Ms. Foundation grantee the National Latina Institute for Health (NLIRH) recently traveled to Geneva to share their report: "<a href="http://www.nuestrotexas.org/resources/" target="_blank">Nuestra Salud, Nuestra Voz, Nuestro Texas: The Fight for Reproductive Health Care in the Rio Grande Valley</a>." Lucy Felix, field coordinator the NLIRH Texas Latina Advocacy Network/Red de Abogacía de Latinas de Texas, tells the story of her trip to deliver the report on <a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/" target="_blank">RH Reality Check</a>:</span><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;">Every single day, I talk to Latinas and immigrant women across the Rio Grande Valley, listening to their stories, hearing about their families, and teaching them how to stay healthy. Last month, I had the opportunity of a lifetime. I was able to travel to Geneva with our allies from the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) and speak before the UN Human Rights Committee on behalf of all of the women in my Texas community who are suffering from a lack of reproductive health care. It was my opportunity to tell them everything I have heard and spotlight the urgency of this health-care crisis—not only for the women in the Valley but for millions of other women in the country.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><a href="http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/03/31/fight-latina-health-took-way-un/" target="_blank">Read the rest of Lucy's story.</a></span></i>LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-81910686414208325972014-03-14T11:27:00.003-04:002014-03-14T11:27:52.539-04:00Ms. Foundation for Women Fellow Lindsay Rosenthal speaks out about child sexual abuse and girls in the juvenile justice system in today's <a href="http://nyti.ms/1qAIRds" target="_blank">New York Times</a> (March 14, 2014). Responding to an article about access to health care for incarcerated people, Lindsay shines a light on the particular obstacles that girl in the juvenile justice system face -- especially those who are victims and survivors of child sexual abuse.<br />
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<br />LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-41637661411871822872014-03-11T10:30:00.000-04:002014-03-11T10:30:00.512-04:00Ms. Foundation for Women grantee the VERA Institute for Justice has published an important new report, "Sexual Abuse of Children with Disabilities: A National Snapshot."<br />
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<i>Children with disabilities are three times more likely than children without them to be victims of sexual </i><br />
<i>abuse, and the likelihood is even higher for children with certain types of disabilities, such as intellectual or mental health disabilities.</i><br />
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<i>However, sexual abuse of children with disabilities has not garnered the attention of policymakers, </i><br />
<i>practitioners, advocates, or community members. These children are also less likely to receive victim services and supports that are more readily available to other victims because of a variety of factors including barriers to reporting and a lack of responses tailored to meet their unique needs. Without receiving support, these children suffer serious long-term aftereffects, including post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and depression, as well as an increased risk of victimization in adulthood.</i><br />
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LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-28150186197691580982014-01-30T09:30:00.000-05:002014-01-31T08:58:22.323-05:00Raise the minimum wage for all workers<div class="MsoNormal">
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During his State of the Union address, the president of the
United States announced that he would issue an executive order that will raise
the minimum wage for employees of federal contractors. In making the
announcement, the president challenged Congress to follow his lead by raising
the federal minimum wage for all workers. </div>
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Missing from the debate are workers who are paid the federal
“tipped” minimum wage (also known as the subminimum wage that is paid to
workers in certain jobs that traditionally are tipped). Currently, the tipped
minimum wage is only $2.13 per hour. The workers paid this rate, who are
predominantly women and often are the head of household, struggle to support
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According to a report released by Ms. Foundation grantee
the Restaurant Opportunities Center, "[t]he vast majority of restaurant workers
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meaning they must routinely choose what necessities their families will forego
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As we embark upon a national dialogue about income
inequality or opportunity, we must not leave behind the millions of women – and
men – who are paid a subminimum wage. These workers must work multiple jobs to
make ends meet. They struggle to cobble together child care – often during evening
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The restaurant industry – one of the fastest growing – impacts
10 million workers in this country. Seventy
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the brunt of the injustice. This occupational segregation of women in low-wage
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It’s time to raise the tipped minimum wage and to improve
the working conditions of tipped workers. Doing so is not only good for the
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LAKanehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16185983993771107905noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-25384993293705526782013-12-05T17:01:00.000-05:002013-12-05T17:01:04.215-05:00Youth-Serving Organizations Take the Lead to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse<i>An excerpt from a PreventConnect post by David Lee, MPH, the Director of Prevention Services at the California Coalition Against Sexual Assault. You can read his full post <a href="http://www.preventconnect.org/2013/12/youth-serving-organizations-take-the-lead-to-prevent-child-sexual-abuse/">here</a>. </i><br />
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While the headlines in newspapers highlight horrific cases of child sexual abuse in youth-serving organizations, after a PowerInPrevention Ending Child Sexual Abuse web conference last October, I felt hopeful learning about the opportunities that these organizations can take to advance the work to end child sexual abuse.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-24981722091606866402013-11-15T13:33:00.000-05:002013-11-15T13:33:23.472-05:00Congratulate Gloria Steinem on Receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom<br />
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Ms. Foundation for Women co-founder Gloria Steinem will be presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on Nov. 20. She joins such esteemed honorees as Toni Morrison and Helen Keller in receiving the nation’s highest civilian honor.<br />
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The Ms. Foundation couldn’t be prouder! In its announcement,<a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/08/president-obama-names-presidential-medal-freedom-recipients"> the White House noted</a> that Gloria has helped launch many organizations dedicated to advancing civil rights – organizations like the Ms. Foundation for Women, which she co-founded 40 years ago alongside Patricia Carbine, Letty Cottin Pogrebin and Marlo Thomas.<br />
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Today, we carry their vision forward by investing funds, time, expertise and training in more than 100 trailblazing organizations nationwide. We remain committed to eliminating the barriers to every woman’s health, safety and economic well-being.<br />
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<a href="http://forwomen.org/content/249/en/send-gloria-your-congratulations">Help us congratulate Gloria!</a> Show your appreciation for her contributions to the women’s movement. We’ll collect your sentiments and share them with her following the event.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-49092591254426268732013-11-06T11:59:00.003-05:002013-11-06T11:59:46.909-05:00Ms. Foundation Fellow Lindsay Rosenthal Co-Authors Report on Sexual Violence in the MilitaryCongratulations to Ms. Foundation for Women fellow <a href="http://forwomen.org/content/231/en/Lindsay-Rosenthal">Lindsay Rosenthal </a>on the publication of a report she co-authored while at the Center for American Progress!<br />
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“<a href="http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/military/report/2013/11/06/78909/twice-betrayed/">Twice Betrayed: Bringing Justice to the U.S. Military’s Sexual Assault Problem</a>” explores the history and scope of sexual assault in the military and the consequences to both survivors and military effectiveness. Among the report’s strongest recommendations to address this crisis is the need to remove sexual assault cases from the military chain of command.<br />
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Lindsay brings this expertise to the Ms. Foundation – and not a moment too soon, as Congress prepares to debate legislation to address sexual assault in the military.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-86232573747375352552013-10-30T07:49:00.000-04:002013-10-30T07:49:09.478-04:00Enough Abuse Campaign Setting Standards In Child Sexual Abuse PreventionBy Jetta Bernier<br />
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A recent Ms. Foundation report properly described child sexual abuse as “one of the most pressing issues of our times.” This was not an overstatement. Every year, 35 million adults come into contact with more than 70 million children in youth-serving organizations (YSOs) across the country; over 50 million children attend our public and private schools. These settings are designed to provide children with guidance and opportunities for learning and personal growth. However, they can also unwillingly provide the "cover" and access to children and teens that sexual abusers and exploiters require. Consider the sobering facts from a U.S. Department of Education report which indicates 7 percent, or 3.5 million school children, report having had physical sexual contact from an adult in their school, most commonly a teacher or coach. When non-touching sexual offenses were included, the figure rose to 4.5 million. Clearly, without a comprehensive strategy to prevent sexual abuse, youth organizations and schools will not succeed in their obligation to protect our children from this insidious threat.<br />
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As a result of national attention generated by the Penn State scandal, many institutions are recognizing the pressing need to develop more effective prevention strategies to combat the problem. In a survey conducted by MassKids with small to mid-sized YSOs, however, most reveal they don't know where to begin to strengthen their policies to prevent abuse and don't have the resources to hire risk management consultants to guide them.<br />
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A capacity building grant from the Ms. Foundation has supported the Enough Abuse Campaign’s efforts to address this identified gap. Through our "GateKeepers for Kids" program, we are educating school and youth-serving leaders about the basics they need to strengthen child safety policies and practices. We have produced a practical 12-page guide detailing the latest training, screening and reporting strategies in the field; a comprehensive assessment tool to help an organization identify its strengths and vulnerabilities; an online bank of policies, video tools and resources; and fact sheets that include steps to develop a code of conduct so that inappropriate behaviors can be identified early before they escalate to abuse, to match an organization's policy to its unique mission and clients, and to modify physical spaces to reduce opportunities for sexual abuse to occur.<br />
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To spur prevention efforts further, the Enough Abuse Campaign is convening a first-of-its-kind Prevention Summit on November 19th near Boston to help jumpstart the effort to set a new standard for child safety among school and YSO leaders, advocates, policymakers and funders. National and state leaders will provide participants with: an understanding of the scope of the problem; the latest, practical tools they need to review and improve their policies; specific skill-building around screening, reporting, modifying physical spaces, dealing with disclosures from staff and children, and handling alleged abusers in ways that support both accountability and compassion. The Learning Community we plan to organize post-summit will provide an ongoing vehicle for the exchange of prevention ideas and strategies far beyond the event itself, including the mobilization of new advocates pushing for legislative changes aimed at preventing child sexual abuse.<br />
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Taken collectively, we believe these efforts will help generate a new culture of safety and accountability within organizations whose mission is to ensure the right of every child to a healthy and safe childhood – one free from sexual abuse and its devastating effects.<br />
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For more information about summit speakers and session topics, and to register, please visit www.enoughabuse.org.<br />
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<i>Jetta Bernier is executive director of MassKids and directs its Enough Abuse Campaign. To learn more visit www.masskids.org.
</i>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-73190091776407537752013-10-18T17:11:00.001-04:002013-10-18T17:11:21.144-04:00Blame, Inappropriately Directed<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RYFJXGVUj2M/UmGisg1AGII/AAAAAAAAGUk/Vpoh9geOeaM/s1600/Don't+rape.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RYFJXGVUj2M/UmGisg1AGII/AAAAAAAAGUk/Vpoh9geOeaM/s200/Don't+rape.jpg" width="195" /></a>The heinous Maryville, Mo., rape case has reignited cultural tendencies toward victim-blaming.<br />
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Emily Yoffe, of Slate, admonished college women to stop getting drunk, citing a study showing that more than 80 percent of campus sexual assaults involve alcohol. One could reasonably assume that an equal or greater percentage of campus sexual assaults also involve men. Men are more likely rapists than women so, by Yoffe’s reasoning, women would be wise to avoid interactions with men.<br />
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But that’s not what she – or anyone else – is suggesting. Everyone knows that men, specifically, are not the problem any more than a few shots of Patrón are the problem.<br />
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How do we eliminate rape and rape culture? Certainly not by blaming victims or putting the onus on women to protect themselves.<br />
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It’s hard work changing a culture that values hyper-masculinity and treats women and girls as sexual property. It’s not so neat and simple as telling women to stop drinking, stop going out late at night, stop wearing short skirts. It takes courage to demand community accountability, and to change the cultural conditions that create rapists.<br />
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Media outlets may lack that courage, but the Ms. Foundation for Women stands strong in its belief that violence against girls and women can be made a rarity, rather than a shameful reality.<br />
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The first step requires treating rape survivors with dignity and respect rather than second-guessing victims' decisions surrounding their assaults.<br />
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Instead of “What did she expect to happen at one in the morning after sneaking out?” (as Fox News guest Joseph DiBenedetto asked about one of the Maryville victims), we should be questioning the motives of the perpetrators: “Didn’t they think twice about picking up girls late at night and sneaking them in through a window? Didn’t the boys know that alcohol would lower their inhibitions and cloud their judgment?”<br />
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And, especially, in reference to the prosecutor reopening the case: “What did the boys expect to happen when they raped these girls?”<br />
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Those are the questions no one is asking.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-91381176822214340812013-09-30T12:11:00.001-04:002013-09-30T12:11:31.501-04:00Access Denied: There's nothing to cheer about on the anniversary of the Hyde Amendment<h3 class="post-title entry-title" style="background-color: white; background-image: none; background-position: 10px 0.5em; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 0px; color: #343434; font-family: Georgia, Utopia, 'Palatino Linotype', Palatino, serif; font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 2px 14px 2px 0px;">
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<span style="color: #707070; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.359375px;"><i>Last year, the <a href="http://forwomen.org/">Ms. Foundation for Women</a> published this post to raise awareness about the implications of the Hyde amendment. This year, our state of affairs remain unchanged. Please sign on to the <a href="http://www.allaboveall.org/home-ms-action">ALL Above all petition</a> to repeal the Hyde amendment once and for all. </i></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #707070; font-family: Times New Roman, Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.359375px;">The relief that women experienced following the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision guaranteeing access to safe and legal abortion was short-lived. After merely three years, zealous politicians managed to impose their own personal agendas with the passing of the Hyde Amendment, systematically excluding millions of low-income women and women of color from accessing abortion care.</span></span><span style="color: #707070; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, FreeSerif, serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 20.359375px;"> </span><br />
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With broad support from anti-choice legislators, the Hyde Amendment banned federal Medicaid coverage of abortion. Denial of Medicaid-funded abortions subsequently retracted low-income women’s ability to obtain a safe and legal abortion. The rights they gained in 1973 were essentially stripped away.<br />
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Today marks 36 years since the Hyde Amendment was enacted. Millions of women who rely on Medicaid for health care are still excluded from accessing abortion care. The restrictions imposed by the Hyde Amendment leave many women in a difficult situation—choosing between basic necessities like food and rent or the medical services that are standard among the majority of private health plans.<br />
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This injustice must end. Stand up for choice. Stand up for women’s constitutional rights. Please sign this <a href="http://www.allaboveall.org/home-ms-action" style="color: #3366cc;">petition</a> from <a href="http://www.allaboveall.org/home-ms-action">ALL Above All </a>to repeal the Hyde Amendment.</div>
Ms. Foundation for Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823265644859542690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-60413988659770588392013-09-26T10:38:00.002-04:002013-09-26T11:12:48.603-04:00Secret survivor’s tools for strengthening your prevention efforts<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;">Sharing one’s story of child sexual abuse is an example of reciprocal empathic connection. In telling the story the individual shares a deeply intimate narrative that connects those that listen with an experience of sorrow, strength and perseverance. Those that receive the story are provided with the opportunity to shift their worldview by connecting and supporting another through the process of healing from trauma.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.preventconnect.org/2013/08/ecsa_2013_2_secret/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Secret Survivor’s Tools for Strengthening Your Prevention Effort</a>s, illustrated the power of the personal narrative in a focused prevention strategy. The Ending Child Sexual Abuse Web Conference series sponsored by <a href="http://www.preventconnect.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">PreventConnect</a> and <a href="http://www.forwomen.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ms. Foundation for Women</a> understands that creativity has an important role in changing and reshaping social norms. The series co-hosts Cordelia Anderson and Joan Tabachnick facilitated a thoughtful discussion with Sara Zatz from <a href="http://www.pingchong.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Ping Chong + Company</a> and Billye Mulraine from <a href="http://www.khcc-nyc.org/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Kingsbridge Heights Community Center</a> about their work using the medium of storytelling in prevention efforts.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #999999; font-family: inherit;"><a href="http://www.preventconnect.org/2013/08/ecsa_2013_2_secret/" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Check out</a> the recording of this web conference for details about these actions and more.</span></div>
Ms. Foundation for Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823265644859542690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-90547098603121600452013-09-23T11:13:00.000-04:002013-09-23T11:13:01.241-04:00Countdown to Health Care: Fighting for Equity for Women<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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By: <a href="http://forwomen.org/content/62/en/ellen-liu">Ellen Liu</a>, Director of Women's Health for The <a href="http://forwomen.org/">Ms. Foundation for Women</a><br />
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There is a lot that organizations like <a href="http://www.nohla.org/">Northwest Health Law Advocates</a> (NoHLA) can do to make sure women are front and center in the Affordable Care Act, according to NoHLA’s Staff Attorney, Emily Brice. “More specifically, [we need to prioritize] women who are particularly vulnerable because they’re lower income, immigrants, have limited English proficiency, or who face other barriers to enrollment.” In Washington State, nearly one in five women between 19-64 years old is uninsured.<br />
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The Seattle, Washington-based organization is a Ms. Foundation grantee and works to increase access to health care and basic health care rights through legal and policy advocacy.<br />
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“We always knew that the federal government clearly cannot do this alone,” Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius recently <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/07/26/exclusive-kathleen-sebelius-on-obamacares-very-tight-deadliness/">told The Washington Post</a>. While the Obama administration has highlighted aspects of the health care overhaul that are important to women — like preventive services without cost sharing and contraception coverage with no co-pays — current government outreach to support women’s enrollment in health coverage is limited, especially among the women who stand to benefit the most.<br />
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In Washington state, NoHLA and its network of partners have stepped in, pushing for greater equity in enrollment services ahead of the October 1st launch of the signup period for insurance plans in state marketplaces under the new law.<br />
<br />After learning from state officials that the Washington exchange would provide only very limited language access services — merely translating the state’s exchange website into Spanish — they “leapt into action and started doing education work,” Brice said. The effort, which began in December 2012, included raising awareness about the changing demographics in Washington state. In the past two decades alone, the number of limited English proficiency persons <a href="http://bit.ly/17Vq2J0">has risen 210 percent </a>representing one of the fastest growth rates in the country. Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Korean and Russian-speaking communities account for the highest numbers.<br />
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Of course, demographic shifts have become a national reality, as well. <a href="http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/8343.pdf">The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured reports</a> that as of 2009, approximately 21 percent of nonelderly people in the United States spoke a language other than English at home. People who identify as having limited English proficiency are uninsured at much higher rates than the rest of the population, at a staggering 50 percent.<br />
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Beyond demographics, it all comes down to a person’s right to health. The ACA prohibits discrimination on the grounds of race, color and national origin for any health program or activity receiving government funding and for any plan offered through the new ACA insurance marketplaces. This requirement was derived from Title VI of the historic Civil Rights Act, and was bolstered in 2000 by President Clinton's Executive Order 13166 to improve access to services for individuals with limited English proficiency.<br />
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NoHLA’s pioneering initiative invoked the legal requirements for Washington state to provide language-access services. As a result of the ongoing negotiation process, today, the Washington exchange has agreed to translate the enrollment application and other key materials immediately into eight languages, and into every other language as needed by individual clients. It will provide oral interpretation services in more than 150 languages, as well as offer relay services and other key services for those who are deaf or hard of hearing. Washington has now become a leader in language-access services and an example for other state exchanges.<br />
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In addition to language access, there were concerns about cultural competency and sensitivity in outreach, or “what we call ‘plain talk’ here in Washington State,” Brice explained. “Are the materials that are being distributed understandable for someone with a 6th grade education? Are they written in a way that regular people can access?”<br />
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Expanding access to care also means an expanded need to improve health care literacy. “Folks who have never before been able to access insurance coverage need to be able to learn how to use it,” Brice said.<br />
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NoHLA’s solution to making sure these important concerns become institutionalized was advocating for the creation of a Health Equity technical advisory committee, appointed by the state’s health Exchange Board and charged with considering issues of health literacy, cultural competency and hard-to-reach populations. Currently, NoHLA works closely with members of the committee to advocate for joint goals in overcoming access and enrollment barriers.<br />
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Thanks to NoHLA and its partners, Washington women will experience a considerably easier process of enrollment that is culturally sensitive, produces materials in their appropriate language and demystifies complicated health care terminology.<br />
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But the goal is not simply higher rates of women’s enrollment; it’s the improved health outcomes of thousands of Washington women previously denied that opportunity.<br />
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The Ms. Foundation is proud to support pioneering leaders like NoHLA as they eliminate barriers for women, fight discrimination and ensure that affordable, quality health care is not a privilege but a basic human right for all.
Ms. Foundation for Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823265644859542690noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-29073681680182952622013-09-12T13:46:00.000-04:002013-09-12T16:15:27.055-04:00Labor Rights are Women’s Rights<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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unwavering commitment to fortify and extend labor protections to workers across
the country. This week, <a href="http://forwomen.org/content/64/en/aleyamma-mathew">Aleyamma Mathew</a>, Senior Program Officer for Economic Justice,
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prosperity," as labor leader Richard Trumka expressed</span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color: #666666;">. </span><a href="http://www.peoplesworld.org/labor-s-house-opens-door-wide-let-s-work-together/" style="color: #444444;">Click here</a><span style="color: #999999;"> </span><span style="color: #666666;">to learn more about </span></span><span style="color: #666666;"><em><span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-style: normal; padding: 0in;">labor's
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<a href="http://forwomen.org/">Return to the Ms. Foundation for Women website</a><br />Ms. Foundation for Womenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17823265644859542690noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-39094623497703125782013-09-11T09:00:00.000-04:002013-09-12T16:17:12.575-04:00Inspiring a Movement: Ending Child Sexual Abuse at the 2013 National Sexual Assault Conference By <a href="http://forwomen.org/content/72/en/natalie-sullivan">Natalie Sullivan</a>, <a href="http://forwomen.org/">Ms. Foundation for Women</a> interim Program Officer, Safety<br />
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<i>Last week, the <a href="http://forwomen.org/">Ms. Foundation for Women</a> hosted a mini track on child sexual abuse prevention at the National Sexual Assault Conference in Hollywood, Calif. In partnership with <a href="http://www.preventconnect.org/">PreventConnect</a>, a project of the <a href="http://www.calcasa.org/">California Coalition Against Sexual Assault</a>, <a href="http://oaasisoregon.org/">OAASIS Oregon</a>, <a href="http://www.khcc-nyc.org/">Kingsbridge Heights Community Center</a>, <a href="http://www.pingchong.org/">Ping Chong + Co.</a>, <a href="http://www.preventchildabusenc.org/">Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina</a> and <a href="http://www.samaritancounselingcenter.org/">Samaritan Counseling Center</a>, Ms. hosted five workshops on child sexual abuse prevention. </i><br />
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The 2013 <a href="http://www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/calcasa/13/index.cfm">National Sexual Assault Conference</a> (NSAC) kicked off with flying colors on the morning of Aug. 28, 2013 – the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Opening speaker <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/author/Lynn%20Rosenthal">Lynn Rosenthal</a> of the <a href="http://www.ovw.usdoj.gov/">Office on Violence Against Women</a> set the tone for the conference by offering that “there is a connection between the work [we’re] doing for women’s freedom and King’s work.” Faye Washington, of the <a href="https://www.ywcagla.org/">YWCA Los Angeles</a>, added, “Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.” With such calls to action, 1,400 of us from across the U.S. spent the next three days gathered together to “Inspire a Movement, Invest in Change, and Imagine…” what a world without sexual assault would look like, and what it would take to build a vibrant movement to arrive there.<br />
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I was thrilled and humbled to be in the presence of a diverse range of movement makers. From service providers to therapists to policy makers to teachers to activists (and many, many more), we roamed the halls, meeting rooms and streets of Hollywood strategizing about how to end the culture of violence and sexual abuse that is so pervasive in our lives and communities. The Ms. Foundation, alongside our grantee partners, was lucky enough to host five workshops specific to ending child sexual abuse – an issue that too often has fallen on the periphery of and between existing movements – with the guiding belief that ending child sexual abuse is one of the most strategic actions we can take to improve the safety of communities everywhere. Our mini track, “Building a Movement to End Child Sexual Abuse,” highlighted several cutting-edge strategies currently led by our grantee partners across the U.S. to prevent child sexual abuse.<br />
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We opened our mini track with <i>Foundations for Change: Sharing Key Approaches to Ending Child Sexual Abuse</i>, hosted by David Lee, Leona Smith DiFaustino, Cordelia Anderson and Joan Tabachnick. Drawing upon lessons learned and strategies shared throughout our and PreventConnect’s <a href="http://www.preventconnect.org/2013/06/ecsa_series_2013_2014/">National Web Conference Series to End Child Sexual Abuse</a>, this workshop led attendees through an introduction to the various strategies currently used in the field to prevent child sexual abuse, including policy advocacy, faith-based organizing, perpetrator prevention and survivor activism.<br />
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Next, Christi Hurt and Sarah Vidrine of Prevent Child Abuse North Carolina led a workshop on what it took to build a statewide coalition in North Carolina focused on creating a state primary prevention policy package to end child sexual abuse. Christi and Sarah walked attendees through the process of building a coalition that brings diverse communities, multidisciplinary teams and the voice of survivors to the table, while maintaining focus on one sole objective. The workshop proved to be a fertile space for the exchange of ideas, examination of how to overcome challenges and exploration of how other states might be able to take on such a model.<br />
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Our third workshop, <i>Convening to End Child Sexual Abuse: A Strategic Choice for Movement Building</i>, was led by Klarissa Oh, Linda Crockett, Cordelia Anderson, Billye Jones Mulraine, Christi Hurt, Randy Ellison and myself. During this workshop, we explored why convening is key to movement building and why storytelling is crucial in the work we do to end violence. We invited attendees to consider how they might do the same in their own work.<br />
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Day two of our mini track kicked off with Linda Crockett and Deb Helt of Samaritan Counseling Center’s Safe Church Project. Linda and Deb showcased the Safe Church project, an interactive one-year ecumenical group training designed to shift congregational culture to inspire prevention of child sexual abuse within churches and communities. Currently launched in Pennsylvania, they are planning to take the project national soon.<br />
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Finally, our mini track closed with an arts-based workshop led by Sara Zatz and Amita Swadhin, who hosted a documentary screening of Ping Chong + Co’s Secret Survivors. In addition to showing the documentary, Sara and Amita guided attendees through an interactive discussion and creative workshop on using the arts to end child sexual abuse. They presented the Secret Survivors toolkit designed to complement the documentary and support community and education partners in sparking dialog to end child sexual abuse.<br />
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This conference enabled child sexual abuse to come out of the shadows and into the foreground into a national dialog of violence prevention, and I thank CALCASA and their partners, <a href="http://www.nsvrc.org/">National Sexual Violence Resource Center</a> and <a href="http://www.pcar.org/">Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape</a> for their vision in organizing this conference. I continue to be moved and pushed in many ways by the brilliance and depth of knowledge of those who do this work. For me, conferences reinforce the benefit of face-to-face exchanges of ideas, breaking down silos, so that we continuously remember how each of our pieces of work supports the greater whole. This year’s NSAC fully lived up to those expectations, laying the groundwork for progress and continued movement building to end violence. <br /><br />
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Ms. grantee <a href="http://www.mschildcare.org/">Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative</a> recently helped win a <a href="http://blog.gulflive.com/mississippi-press-news/2013/08/judge_blocks_mississippis_chil.html">preliminary injunction </a>against a fingerprint scanning system that would stigmatize low-income women, who rely on federal subsidies, and erect operational barriers for child care providers. This system has the potential to harm both low-income families and child care business owners.<br />
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Low-income parents who receive federal child care vouchers would be forced to scan their fingerprints when dropping their children off at child care each day. This system treats low-income parents like criminals, singling them out from the higher-earning families at their child care centers.<br />
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It’s standard practice for child care providers to charge weekly or monthly rates, for families both paying in full and using subsidies. But under the fingerprint scanning system, child care providers would be paid only for the specific times that children receiving vouchers are present. Child care providers would experience a decrease in reimbursement when children who rely on subsidies are absent.<br />
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Families might decline the voucher system for privacy reasons, and child care providers may stop accepting children who rely on vouchers because of the decrease in reimbursement. The end result could be a severe curtailment in child care access for low-income families and a loss of jobs for child care providers whose businesses fold.<br />
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Mississippi has allocated $12 million to Xerox over five years to operate this system – money that would be better spent enrolling more children in the voucher program, according to <a href="http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2013307270021">Cassandra Welchin at the Mississippi Low-Income Child Care Initiative</a>.<br />
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We couldn’t agree more! The <a href="http://forwomen.org/">Ms. Foundation</a> is following developments closely and spreading the word about the impact on women and families who need our support the most.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4834779744176641114.post-60713719069184327112013-08-21T09:00:00.000-04:002014-06-26T09:05:53.473-04:00Infographics for Change: Elizabeth Blasi and California Latinas for Reproductive Justice<i>This summer, Ms. launched its inaugural fellowship program with New York City’s Parsons The New School for Design, pairing three Parsons MFA design students and graduates with three different Ms. grantees working in reproductive justice. With an eye on serving economically, racially and geographically marginalized women in particular, the partnerships will produce public education campaigns and interactive tools to better equip women and girls in the fight for their right to accessible, comprehensive health care. </i><br />
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By Contessa Gayles, Ms. Foundation intern and graduate student in journalism at NYU<br />
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Committed to “discovering ways that design can enhance
educational engagement, encourage civic participation and motivate people to
exercise their capacity to impact their own community,” 23-year-old Elizabeth
Blasi will be entering her second year at Parsons’ Transdisciplinary Design MFA
program this fall. “My personal connection to women’s health and reproductive
justice stems from being raised in a strong Catholic, and often financially
impaired, household,” Blasi tells Ms. She explains how, in her experience, being
raised Catholic meant discussions about contraception were never on the table.
The cultural, economic, racial and policy barriers that adversely impact
women’s ability to make appropriate health decisions for themselves and their
families, and the significant disparities in health that result, have inspired
Blasi to put her design skills to use
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For her fellowship, Blasi is working with <a href="http://www.californialatinas.org/">California Latinas for Reproductive Justice </a>(CLRJ), a statewide policy and advocacy organization for the advancement of the reproductive health and rights of California Latinas, in the state that is home to the nation’s largest Latino population. Latinas in the U.S. face the most significant health disparities when it comes to insurance coverage among women. An average of <a href="http://kaiserfamilyfoundation.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/7886.pdf">37% of nonelderly Latina women are uninsured</a>, compared to 13% of white women. Given this statistic, it should come as no surprise that a 2011 report from the <a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/j.contraception.2011.07.13.pdf">Guttmacher Institute</a> identified Latina women as having the highest unintended birth rate in the country: over double the rate of their white counterparts. <a href="http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.html#9">Another study from the institute</a> that same year identified California as the state with the second-largest unintended pregnancy rate in the country, behind only Mississippi.<br />
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With attention to the challenges that intergenerational, cross-cultural and cross-linguistic communications present, Blasi is designing a series of infographics to visually illustrate Latinas’ experiences and perspectives on reproductive health. The data presented will focus on barriers to health care access, dispelling common misconceptions and the intersection of immigration reform and the Affordable Care Act. Blasi will also develop a crowd-sourced platform for Latinas to share their personal reproductive justice stories to be disseminated over social and digital media platforms.<br />
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Here's more from the series on Ms.' 2013 Parsons fellows: <a href="http://ignitingchange08.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-tool-to-teach-health-literacy-paweena.html">A Tool to Teach Health Literacy: Paweena Prachanronarong and Young Women United</a> and <a href="http://ignitingchange08.blogspot.com/2013/08/mapping-aca-insurance-enrollment-lauren.html">Mapping ACA Insurance Enrollment: Lauren Slowik and West Virginia FREE</a>.<br />
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