What is a womens centre

What is a womens centre? It's a place to meet other women in a welcoming, relaxing environment.

Women's Centres in Quebec form a large network that reaches thousands of women. They welcome women from all walks of life. Firmly established in rural and urban communities, they are well versed in women's needs, problems and demands.

Women's Centres are local or regional resources. They offer women in their community a place that feels like home, where they can find support during a time of transition; a way to break their isolation; and an education and action network. The centre's approach is comprehensive. Rather than focus their action on a particular problem, they address the status of women as a whole.

The centres are set up and managed by and for women exclusively. The worker's, both paid and unpaid, are women who are committed to working with and for other women to meet the goals of the feminist program.

Is Avante for you?

If you are an English-speaking woman and you want to:

• Meet other women in a welcoming, relaxing environment
• Live your life more fully and creatively
• Learn new ways of expressing yourself

Or you want help to:

• Take charge of your life
• Make ends meet
• Deal with social or health services in French
• Find a job
• Cope with health problems
• Deal with anxiety or sadness
• learn about women's physical or mental health problems and their prevention
• Develop new parenting skills
• Deal with relationship problems
• Get out of a dangerous or difficult situation
• Handle any other aspect of your life