“We break down walls by being ourselves.”

— Facilitator

“Rideau Community Health Services has had the pleasure of working with the team at CAWI many times over the last several years. CAWI has been integral to providing staff education, and promoting our equity, diversity, inclusion, and justice work. CAWI has helped our organization ensure we are inclusive in everything we do. Thank you to the whole team for your insights and valuable recommendations!”

— Michele Bellows, CEO, Rideau Community Health Services

“When you’re delivering anti-racism training as a Black woman, people will wonder if you’re ok with what’s being said. There is power in these interactions when a racialized woman is holding the space.”

— Facilitator

“Our organization benefited greatly from the expertise of CAWI’s social enterprise staff to plan, develop and deliver a series of workshops in Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion for our staff. As a community-based, social service agency, it was important for us to work with partners delivering this training that aligned with our values and reflected our communities. The compassionate and knowledgeable approach of CAWI’s facilitators, who were diverse women with lived experience, provided a meaningful experience and an effective development opportunity for our staff. CAWI’s social enterprise is a valuable and unique resource in our city.”

— Anita James, Executive Director, Nepean, Rideau and Osgoode Community Resource Centre

“Facilitators have lived experience with marginalization. They bring an informed lens to their work.”

— Facilitator

“Facilitators pull threads in conversation, and unravel participant’s understanding of issues until they come to a light-bulb moment.”

— Facilitator

“The staff and residents that work and live around PQCHC have continuously benefitted from our partnership with CAWI over many years. The CAWI team is highly skilled in supporting people to work with various stakeholders to advocate for and build more inclusive, informed, and inspired cities and communities through gender inclusive, anti racist and anti-colonial lenses.”

— Robynn Collins, Health Promoter, Community Development Services, Pinecrest-Queensway Community Health Centre

“Working with CAWI to develop customized training for our network of member agencies was a wonderful experience. They took the time to understand our needs and group dynamics and produced a product that exceeded our expectations. We will definitely work with CAWI again!”

— Madison Watson, Manager of Programs & Planning, Ottawa Food Bank

“Cornerstone Housing for Women originally worked with CAWI to have them provide Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression training. We found the training to be rich, realistic, accessible, and invaluable. We found this process to be powerful and valuable. We subsequently partnered with CAWI to consult on the development of our “Equity, Diversity and Inclusion in the Work place policy”, and to engage in pre-consultation towards developing and implementing our Diversity, Inclusion, Gender and Racial Justice Committee.

We found the team at CAWI to be incredibly helpful in our process. They are a group of incredibly engaging knowledgeable and engaging women. They helped us navigate through sensitive subject matter; we learned much from them and found that they facilitated us learning from each other.”

— Martine Dore, Director of Programs and Services, Cornerstone Housing for Women

“Engaging CAWI means working with a network which is authentically diverse.”

— Facilitator

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