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The Women's Center - Educating, Advocating, and Building Diverse Communities

History and Mission

The UofL Women's Center serves as a catalyst for empowering women at UofL and throughout the Louisville area.

The mission of the Women's Center is to build alliances with campus and community groups in order:

to promote equality
to increase women's self-reliance
to heighten the understanding of women's contributions to all societies

The Women's Center carries out this mission by designing programs that encourage participation, including performances, discussion, exhibitions; by involving women and men of diverse races, classes, ethnic origins, sexual orientations, and age groups in creative activities contributing to public education, research, and policy development; and by producing informative and coalition-building publications.

U of L's Champion 4 Her

School of Nursing professor Dr. Elizabeth Bonham has dedicated much of her life to helping young men and women in trouble. Her specialty is Child/Adolescent Psychiatric-Mental Health, and she uses this knowledge to work with juvenile offenders. “I have a genuine regard for people and what psychiatry brings to the table,” said Bonham.

She plans to use her research to build on theories and possibly develop applications to help youth better deal with mental health problems.

Learn more about Beth Bonham.

Get Healthy Now - Be a Champion

U of L’s health management program, Get Healthy Now, is coordinating U of L’s involvement in the Champions 4 Her Run, Walk & Festival. Whether you are a seasoned athlete or a novice, Get Healthy Now has designed a program that allows you to work with a team toward individual cardio goals and to earn prizes. Get Healthy Now support includes: personalized fitness training by certified coaches, your own personal web site for tracking progress towards goals, and a supportive group of teammates. More information can be found at: http://www.louisville.edu/hr/gethealthynow/champions-4-her

Women’s Center/PEACC program joins Women 4 Women in a fundraising event June 21st, 2008; which will take place on the Louisville waterfront. For more information visit the Champions 4 Her website . For further information you may visit our Champions 4 Her Overview as well. View our live commercial and Pick up the Pace Louisville.

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*The Champions 4 Her Walk, Run & Festival was created to improve the health and financial well-being of women and girls in Louisville. Selected beneficiary partners for 2008 focus on: youth mentoring; treatment of severely traumatized children; leadership development for women and girls; prevention of sexual violence and services for its victims; artistic expression for underprivileged girls; the needs of single mothers and their children; and education and competitive athletics for college-aged women. No funds will be distributed to organizations whose primary focus is religion, politics, or reproductive rights

Women's Center Hot Topics

National Womens History Month- For the calendar submission form and further information, please Click Here.

UofL joins Project Women to address important community need- The University of Louisville will take part in a project near its Belknap Campus to help unemployed or underemployed single parents pursue an education to become self-sufficient. Project Women Open Book Spring 2007 Newsletter outlines the project in further detail. More information can also be Read on the UofL website... Hot off the presses read President Ramsey's address .

Current Women's Health News

Click now on this very valuable link for Women's Health take the challenge and get healthy now.

You can advance Women's Health for Women by Women! GET INVOLVED

You can advance the health of Kentucky Women by joining the Kentucky Women's Health registry. Help yourself and women across the Commonwealth by filling out a confidential questionnaire once every year. From the privacy and comfort of your own home, in just 20 minutes each year, you can help improve the health of 2 million women. Please join your sisters today and fill out the survey at www.kywomensregistry.com. If you have further questions please call 1-800-929-2320.

Visit our Raising Women’s Voices project news page to find out how you can help to raise women’s voices in local, state and national debates over health care reform, so that women’s perspectives about their health care needs and those of their families can be powerfully articulated, genuinely considered and incorporated into health care reform policy.

Raising Women’s Voices is a collaboration between the Avery Institute for Social Change, the National Women’s Health Network and The MergerWatch Project.

Current Scholarship News

The Women's Center promotes many local and national scholarships and are pleased to provide the following current links. We are pleased to provide a grants, scholarship, and intern booklet which contains 100's of opportunities for you to download for free. This download requires adobe acrobat.

Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund- In keeping with its long-standing tradition of serving the community, the Talbots Charitable Foundation is pleased to offer a unique, national $100,000 scholarship program: a fund just for Women who earned their high school dipolma or GED at least 10 years ago, and who are now seeking a college degree. Established in 1997, Talbots Women's Scholarship Fund annually awards five $10,000 scholarships and fifty $1,000 scholarships to women returning to college. Talbots Charitable Foundation is proud to support the efforts of all women striving to achieve thier goals. The Women's Center has applications for you to fill out. Please contact us for further information.

River City Business & Professional Women’s Foundation, Inc - Grants may be awarded to candidates who meet the following criteria:

Women 25 years of age or older by July 1.
U.S. citizen and resident of the Louisville metropolitan area.
Evidence of acceptance into an accredited program.
Need financial assistance to complete education or upgrade skills.
Applicants need not be BPW members or require endorsement of a BPW affiliate.

Click here to download the PDF application. Deadline is May , 2008.

Dr. Celeste Nichols Professional Development Award- Graduate students are invited to apply for an award- up to $500- that supports academic and professional enrichment beyond normal graduate program expenses. Application deadline is in September, 2008 with the award given in November at the U of L Women's Center annual Elizabeth Cady Stanton Luncheon. Learn more about the Dr. Celeste Nichols Professional Development Award.

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