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The Women's Forum is a network of women's groups that has been established to provide a mechanism for local women and women's groups to feed into the Community Empowerment Network Women's representative, Nazima Osman about what their needs and issues are and to feed these into the Hackney Strategic Partnership through the elected women's representative.
Women in Governance Project
Hackney Women's Forum have launched a new project to encourage women in Hackney to take on leadership roles and find out more about governance.
 Click here for details of free governance training for women
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The Forum has membership of over 40 local women's organisations and is coordinated by HCVS and the Women's rep Nazima Osman. The Women's Forum has established a Women's Learning Partnership that will provide accessible routes for women to engage with learning, from counselling to IAG to accredited learning (ESOL, book-keeping, ICT) to gaining qualifications to progression into employment.
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Dr. Nazima Osman
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Membership of the Learning Partnership
- Asian Women's Advisory Service-Provides therapeutic and supportive counselling to Asian women in Hackney. Provides culturally sensitive training (e.g. assertiveness/confidence building training) to Asian women in the community and facilitates a self-help group. The drop-in centre provides information and advice, advocacy and interpreting services.
- Claudia Jones Organisation-Offers training, advice, information and support to African-Caribbean women. They also have a counselling service. Last year 164 women attended courses and workshops offered by the organisation, which works in partnership with Hackney Community College.
- Grace Women's Organisation-Provides a full range of training and employment support from language and skills assessment, through guidance and counselling to accredited vocational learning. As an accredited learning centre, the organisation increases the skills and competencies of women so that they can access work experience and employment.
- Hackney Bangladeshi Cultural Association-Provides information, advice and training implementing a range of activities and events, particularly targeting Bangladeshi women. The organisation helps Bangladeshi women with housing, education, immigration, welfare and provides ESOL/Basic Skills courses and NVQ training in association with Hackney Community College.
- Hackney Women's Project-Provides information and advice to HIV positive women living in Hackney. Organises lifestyle workshops, self management and empowerment courses, specifically designed to explore the interplay of lifestyle, coping mechanisms, stress management and health.
- London Irish Women's Centre-Promotes the interests and needs of Irish women through outreach advice surgeries, advice on benefits and housing. Individual and group counselling. Seminars and information sessions.
- Nia Project (formerly Hackney Women's Aid)-is part of a national and London-wide network of women's refuges offering support, advice and temporary emergency accommodation to women with children or without who are experiencing domestic violence. They offer housing services, family support and legal advice to women. They have designed a LifeSkills training course to empower women with information, awareness raising and appropriate progression routes to move forward with their lives.
- Refugee Workers' Cultural Association-Provides outreach, career advice and guidance sessions for adult women and young women who are not in any formal education. Helps build confidence to enable women to take up formal education and training. An intensive outreach ESOL/IT training programme based on peer delivery on a one-to-one basis.
- Somali Women's Support Group-Provides information and advice services to enable Somali refugee women to access to mainstream services. Organises ESOL classes for members to overcome linguistic and cultural barriers and ICT training courses.
If you are a women's community organisation and you would like to get involved in this exciting new network then you should contact Nazima Osman by email at doctornazima@hotmail.com.
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