Program and Department News October Cocoa Beach Woman's Club

PROGRAM AND DEPARTMENT NEWS

This year the six departments will concentrate on helping women and children.

In October and November we will offer service to women in our immediate community through the collection of food and clothing. In December and January we will offer service to women in the wider community through “Women of Hope”, a program that works to empower women in Afghanistan and through “Heifer International”, a program that works to empower women internationally.

OCTOBER IS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AWARENESS MONTH AND
OCTOBER 16th IS WORLD FOOD DAY

PLEASE BRING A CAN OR TWO OF NONPERISHABLE FOOD to the
OCTOBER 1st MEETING.
This is for the Food Pantry at the Women’s Center for Abused Women

THE HOME LIFE DEPARTMENT IS PRESENTING
THE OCTOBER PROGRAM

Pat Paquette from the Women’s Center will be our speaker. The Mission of the Women’s Center is to empower women and their families by providing support, education, counseling, information and services. She will talk about the effects of violence in families. Pat will explain the new Women’s Center Microloan Program. Microloans are small loans to women for start-up and/or newly established small businesses.

HOME LIFE DEPARTMENT
OCTOBER IS CANCER AWARENESS MONTH.

We will have several brochures on Cancer Awareness that were gathered at Fall Board. Please pick up the information on The Artful Bra Project.

This project is intended to make the public aware of breast cancer, to memorialize those lost to the disease and to honor survivors. The project was kicked off at Fall Board with a flyer and a display table with samples of Artful Bras. Pick up the information and enter the contest!
We also have information on Swine Flu and Strokes. Brochures on “What Everyone Needs to Know about Money and Retirement” will be available.

CELEBRATING WOMEN

JULIA WARD HOWE (1819-1910)
Julia Ward Howe served as President of the Massachusetts Federation Women’s Club. Author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, she was the founder of the American Woman’s Suffrage Association and also a famous poet and lecturer.


SUSAN KELLY-DREISS (1942- )
For over 30 years, Susan Kelly-Dreiss has worked to enact legal protections, implement innovative services and heighten public awareness on behalf of battered women and their children.

In 1976, Ms. Kelly-Dreiss lobbied for passage of Pennsylvania’s first domestic violence law, and later that same year, she co-founded the nation’s first domestic violence coalition - the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence (PCADV). She was a founding member of the National Network to End Domestic Violence and has played a key role in drafting federal legislation including the Federal Violence Prevention and Services Act and the Violence Against Women Act.

Susan Kelly-Dreiss was inducted into the National Woman’s Hall of Fame in 2009.

Jean Carey, 1st V.P.
Cocoa Beach Woman's Club