Positive Women’s Network has requested this information be shared to reach PWN members. If women connected to your organization may be PWN members, please share this news.
PWN is closing but we wish for your voices to be heard within the community. We want to know what kinds of services or programs you’d like to see continue and at what locations. If you have ANY ideas, thoughts, or hopes, please call or email Charisse, talk to a peer navigator, social worker, or pass a message through a friend BEFORE JUNE 30th!
To speak with Charisse or book an appointment, please call
604-692-3007 or email [email protected]
Member Files
In light of PWN’s closure, we would like to offer you the opportunity to claim your member file. Please schedule an appointment at our office to collect your file and sign a release form. Files must be picked up no later than noon June 30th. We would also like to hear from you if you are choosing not to pick up your file so that we can destroy it in a confidential, secure manner.
Please contact us at: 604 692 3000/ Email: [email protected]
Alternate Resources: A Message from Positive Living BC
The closure of PWN will leave a void in the lives of many women living with HIV that will be difficult to fill. Positive Living BC wants you to know that we have heard loud and clear from our women members that Positive Living BC must do all it can to address the gaps created by PWN’s closure.
We are delighted to welcome all women living with HIV in BC as members.
Currently, Positive Living Society provides a full range of services that all our members are encouraged to use, including:
• Health and Wellness programs
• Community Health Fund
• Positive Living magazine (stay connected get informed)
• Peer Navigation services.
In June, we will be contacting our membership about our upcoming Annual General Meeting and we would encourage our women members to consider running for a position on our Board of Directors in August 2017. In July we’ll be in our new home at 1101 Seymour Street in Vancouver – a home which will include a women’s only lounge. Positive Living BC is committed to exploring the growth and expansion of women-specific programming. We know there are now major gaps to be filled, and we want to work with women living with HIV across BC to fill them.
We encourage you to contact any of our three fully trained Peer Navigators situated at the IDC and Rapid Addictions Clinics at St. Paul’s Hospital, at the Positive Health Services Clinic located in the Jim Pattison Outpatient Care and at the Surgery Centre in Surrey.
If you are not a member of Positive Living Society of BC and would like to stay connected print off and fill out this form.
We are looking forward to growing our women’s community together!
Thank you,
Neil Self
Chair, Board of Directors
Upcoming at PWN: Grocery for Women @ 10:00am
AIDS Vancouver will be opening its doors on Thursdays for a women-only grocery pick up day. Charisse Knowlan, Women’s Support Worker at Positive Women’s Network, will be there to greet you!
The next grocery will be June 15th.
For more information, please contact AIDS Vancouver: 604-893-2201