Upcoming Events
Blue Collar Women present Tradeswomen's Archive
This event will be held at California State University Dominguez Hills. They invite you to donate the stuff you've saved over the years about your life in trades: newsletters, work memorabilia, photos certificates, buttons, tee shirts and etc. To donate please contact Vivian Price at (310) 243-3583 or via email at vprice@csudh.edu subject line: Archives.
City of Los Angeles 17th Annual Emergency Preparedness
This event will be held on September 13th, 20th and 27th at various locations across the Los Angeles area. This year's events feature on-stage safety demonstrations, informational booths and a Children's Preparedness Pavilion. For more information, call (213) 978-2222 or visit www.lacity.org/emd.
FREE Self-Defense and Inner Strength Training for Women
This event will held on Saturday, September 13 from 2:00 p.m.-4:00 p.m. at 12466 Washington Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90066. For more information, please contact Shlomo Kapelnikov and Michael Horn at (877) 622-4289 or via email at sansoo181818@aol.com.
Health Care and Crime Prevention Town Hall
This event will be held on Saturday, September 13, 2008 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at Mount St. Mary's College Donohue Conference Center, 10 Chester Place in Los Angeles, CA. Join Assemblyman Mike Davis for a town hall meeting on health care and crime prevention. For more information, please call (213) 744-2111.
Women in Business Dialogue
This event will be held on September 18, 2008 from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, City Hall, 3rd Floor, 200 North Spring Street, Los Angeles. If you would like to participate in the "Women in Business" Dialogue, you must R.S.V.P. to Miriam Jaffe at miriam.jaffe@lacity.org by Friday, September 12th.
Mayor's Day of Service: CSW Health & Wellness Workshop
This event will be held on Saturday, September 20, 2008 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. at Jim Gilliam Park. The event features a variety of workshops on the importance of health and fitness, a (1) mile walk to Rancho Cienega Sports Complex and a women's resource fair. For more information, please contact Kellie Hawkins at (213) 978-0300 or via email at CSWinfo@lacity.org.
The Ninth Elder Abuse Symposium: Presented by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Victim Assistance Program
This event will be held on Tuesday, September 23, 2008 from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm at the California Endowment (1000 North Alameda Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012). For more information please call (213) 974-7401 or send inquiries to cji@da.lacounty.gov.
LA Metro Task Force on Human Trafficking: Educational Fair
This event will be held in the Olvera Street Plaza on Thursday, September 25, 2008 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Please contact Kimberly Agbonkpolor at (213) 485-2511 or via email at E8683@lapd.lacity.org
Elder Women's Initiative Women Speak Out: Changing How Californians Age
This event will be held on
October 3rd at the California Endowment: Center for Healthy Communities Room, 1000 N. Alameda Street). Registration opens between 9:00 a.m.to 10:00 a.m. Speak-Out & Listening Session: 10 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Attendance is free. Interpreter services and childcare provided to pre-registered participants. Learn more and register at www.womensfoundca.org. |
California's Budget Impact on Women and Young Girls Submitted by: Together for California's Future
 The Governor's budget proposal contained several cuts that would have huge and disproportionate negative impacts on the health and lives of women and their families. Cuts to healthcare, education, and other basic needs include:
· End cash assistance payments to nearly 200,000 children in the CalWORKs Program, which would make it more difficult for their families – the vast majority of whom are headed by women - to meet their basic needs.
· Cause thousands of adults – many of them women – to lose Medi-Cal coverage by increasing paperwork requirements.
· Reduce payments to many providers who treat Medi-Cal patients by 10 percent. Cutting Medi-Cal provider rates by 10% will come at the expense of women and their children. More than 7 in 10 adult Medi-Cal beneficiaries are women and nearly half (46%) of all beneficiaries are children. Research suggests that California's low provider payment rates are a barrier to accessing health care services.
· Reduce payments for family planning services paid for by Medi-Cal by 10 percent and reduce funding for the Teen Pregnancy and Prevention Program. Implementation of this proposal would cause 37,400 teens and parents of teens to lose services.
· Reduce the number of children in child care and preschool by more than 18,000 by cutting funding for child development programs by $198.9 million in 2008-09. The Governor also proposes to reduce funding for before and after school programs by $59.6 million.
· Freeze the income eligibility limit for child care services at the 2007-08 level in 2008-09. As a result, low-income working families who earn above the income limit would lose child care assistance, and families who have left public assistance risk returning to aid due to the high cost of child care.
Inner City Struggle: Empowering LA through Community Organizing
 Inner City Struggle has worked with youth and community residents for the past 12 years to promote safe, healthy, and non-violent communities on the Eastside. Their core mission is to promote safe, healthy and non-violent communities by organizing youth and families in Boyle Heights and East Los Angeles to work toward economic and social justice.
Through grassroots community organizing, they seek to involve youth, families and community members to work together for change in their communities. Inner City Struggle's major organizing projects include the United Students Junior, United Students and Familias Unidas. One of the many driving forces of their organization is based on the principle that, we must empower students so that they can reach their family's dream of college. The work of Inner City Struggle demonstrates that youth and parents working together are a powerful force for improving their communities and making real change. Inner City Struggle is led by Executive Director Maria Brenes. For more information about Inner City Struggle, please call (323) 780-7609 or visit http://innercitystruggle.org/.
One of LA's Own, Breaking Glass Ceilings and Walls:
Senior Electrical Inspector Cheryl Chisolm
 Cheryl Chisolm is a pioneer for women working in blue-collar careers. She has a long list of First's. She currently is the first woman Senior Electrical Inspector for the City of Los Angeles with the Department of Building and Safety. Her area of responsibility is the Hollywood District. Among her many accomplishments, she is a single mom with the strength and perseverance to accomplish her goals despite being one of the first women to break glass ceilings and walls within her career.
Active in her union she was the first woman elected (1997-2000) to the Executive Board of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Union Local 11. Her fellow electricians also elected her as the first woman on the Contract Negotiating Committee.
Cheryl currently holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Morris Brown College in Atlanta, GA. She also has her State of California Electrical Vocational Teaching Credential and certifications for Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA)-10 & 30hrs Construction Outreach Trainer, Medic First Aid/CPR instructor, Safety and Diversity Orientations and International Code Council-Commercial Electrical Inspector (ICC).
She is also very passionate about recruiting more women into non-traditional careers. On September 13th, Inspector Chisolm will speak at the Annual Young Women for LADWP Summit, where she will talk about her own personal career path and the importance of women entering into non-traditional careers. Cheryl urges young women to, “set a goal or work towards a dream, because you will be blessed with people along the way that can and will help you reach it.”
Mayor's Day of Service: Together As One Service Projects for the Communities of South LA
On September 20, 2008, Mayor Antonio R. Villaraigosa will once again mobilize the community through civic engagement, volunteerism, and service during his
South LA "Together as One" Day of Service. The Mayor's Day of Service is a day for Angelenos throughout various communities to unite and share in a day filled with service projects that strike at the heart of community problems as well as highlight the community's assets. This Day of Service will entail projects within the South Los Angeles communities of Baldwin Village, Park Mesa Heights, Village Green, and Baldwin Hills.There will be dozens of services offered ranging from neighborhood fitness programs to community beautification projects that seek to preserve South Los Angeles' most prized neighborhoods.
In a collective effort to stand as one and empower the women of South Los Angeles, CSW will host a Health & Wellness Workshop. The goal of the workshop is to empower the women living in Baldwin Village by means of educating them on how to effectively utilize local community resources to support their overall health and wellness.
Beginning at Jim Gilliam Park, speakers will facilitate discussions on the importance of health and fitness as well as mental health. Immediately following the workshop, the women will start their road to healthy living by walking from Jim Gilliam Park to Rancho Cienega Park. The Day of Service culminating activities will also be taking place at the Rancho Cienega Park, where the women will be able to attend a community resource fair. For more information about the Mayor's South LA "Together as One" Day of Service, please contact CSW at 213-978-0300.
Legislative Update
The following bills were recently supported by CSW's Board at the September 5th Commission meeting:
§ SB 153: Property taxation: change in ownership: exclusion
§ SB 1729: Health facilities: training
§ AB 2726: Healthy Food Purchase pilot program
Special Thanks to Community Build for hosting the last Commission Meeting on September 5, 2008.
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