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Empowering young women living with intellectual disabilities

--- June 11, 2010, Barb Hiland, Director of Operations, Community Living Peterborough

Community Living Peterborough is one of the many organizations to have been awarded funding from Staus of Women Canada, Women's Community Fund for $62,596 over a two year project period.

Status of Women Canada (SWC) is a federal government organization that promotes the full participation of women in the economic, social and democratic life of Canada. SWC works to advance equality for women and to remove the barriers to women's participation in society, putting particular emphasis on increasing women's economic security and eliminating violence against women.

With training and education, we expect to empower ten young women to be the Ambassadors and Leaders for messaging peers, our Board and staff, the community (including schools) and the provincial government of the importance of inclusion and self-determination for women who are living with an intellectual disability.

Breaking down barriers

CLIFFORD SKARSTEDT ExaminerWinner Peter Bascan of the 2010 Holnbeck Appreciation Award, left, is congratulated by Gordon Holnbeck and Lucinda Hage, founder of Heads Up For Inclusion, winner of the 2019 Gordon and Arbie Holnbeck Award during the 2010 Gordon and Arbie Holnbeck Awards ceremony at Peterborough Square Saturday. The ceremony was attended by 50 people. Holnbeck Award: Amigos founder honoured --- Andrea Houston, Peterborough Examiner, May 31st 2010

Peterborough ON - Since Lucinda Hage founded Heads Up for Inclusion, she said she's seen the community become more accepting, barriers have broken down and lives have change for the better.