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Objective  The Girls Chat Project - Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre



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Tags: healthy-body-image, new-canadian, sexuality, sexual-violence, young-women Edit Icon Edit

 
Goal of Girls Chat:

The Goal of Girls Chat is to provide young women, from immigrant backgrounds, with the opportunity to better integrate into the social and emotional life in Ottawa. This is accomplished by facilitating opportunities for them to address their issues in a manner that is culturally and religiously appropriate.

The Objectives of Girls Chat are to: decrease isolation amongst young women from immigrant backgrounds; identify and support the social and emotional needs of young women at risk of violence; promote and support social networks amongst these young women; increase awareness about healthy sexuality, date rape, healthy body image, and sexual violence in a youth friendly and culturally appropriate manner;  build leadership skills amongst these youth women; and foster positive relationships between school personnel and students. The ORCC runs the Girls Chat Project in five Ottawa high schools.

The idea for the project came from our public education work in the secondary school system and with discussions with the Multicultural Liaison Officers (MLO) within the schools and other service providers who work with immigrant and refugee communities. We found that many immigrant and refugee girls and young women are dealing with cultural and religious clashes between home and their school environment.  Sex education programs in the schools are geared toward youth born and raised in Canada and these programs do not account for the fact that most immigrant parents rarely talk to their children about issues of sexual health, healthy dating relationships and sexual violence.  We also found a high degree of sexual violence and harassment against girls and young women in the school system and these girls feel powerless to address these issues.

Continuing financial support is vital so as to continue to reach this vulnerable population of young women and maintain our successful partnership with the School Board. Funds for this project will go towards providing resources for Girls Chat participants (i.e. journals, films & documentaries) providing healthy lunch time snacks (which helps address the issues of poverty) and supporting the work of the project co-facilitators. The funds will also help the ORCC plan the expansion of the project, as other schools in the City are requesting Girls Chat for their school.
 
 
 

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