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Founded in 1981, the Lennoxville and District Women's Centre (LDWC) is a community organization serving women throughout the Eastern Townships.
As a community-based organization serving English-speaking women throughout the Eastern Townships, the Lennoxville and District Women's Centre is a meeting place where women can gather to learn new skills, make new friends and find valuable information on various subjects. The Centre offers a variety of workshops such as pre-natal courses, self-defence courses, computer courses, healthy cooking, stress management, employment strategies, legal wills and testaments, soap making, jewellery making, gardening, etc. The Lennoxville and District Women’s Centre also offers various services of referral to English-language services, services of a trained counsellor, information about community services and activities, sexual assault counselling services, help for women with limited financial resources, breast cancer support group, a library containing literature covering a wide range of topics pertinent to women, computer internet access as well as outreach.
The Lennoxville and District Women's Centre receives funding from the Ministry of Health and Social Services. Special projects are supported by other sources such as Centraide. The Centre is actively involved in the wellbeing of the community and this is why it offers services and activities that are flexible and adaptable to issues that truly affect community members.
This organization is important for the community of the Eastern Townships as it is one of the rare organizations putting emphasis on offering services to the English speakers from the Eastern Townships.
Throughout the years, the Centre has initiated and participated in various activities and events that have contributed to the wellbeing of the community by offering a support system that is available to women and that can accompany and help them with their questions, needs and concerns.

For more information on the Lennoxville and District Women's Centre, visit:
http://ldwc.ca/

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Lennoxville and District Women's Centre Newsletter
October 2005



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Eastern Townships Resource Centre, P131, Lennoxville and District Women’s Centre fonds

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Lennoxville and District Women's Centre Newsletter
November 2010



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Eastern Townships Resource Centre, P131, Lennoxville and District Women’s Centre fonds

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'Victims No More:' Art and Creative Writing Exhibition
October 2003



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Eastern Townships Resource Centre, P131 Lennoxville and District Women’s Centre fonds

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'Victims No More' was a very successful project that took place at the Lennoxville and District Women’s Centre in 2002 and 2003. The project 'Victims No More' consisted in offering art and creative writing workshops to women who have experienced physical, sexual or psychological violence. The workshops were led by an Art Therapist and were designed to permit the women to break their silence about the subject matter of violence in a supportive and confidential setting, a place where they could share their stories with each other. This approach to the workshops was designed to help and guide the participants to engage in a process of healing and awareness. At the end of the workshops, the participants were invited to select one of their pieces or to create a new piece to be displayed for public viewing on an anonymous basis.
The 'Victims No More' project was made possible by a collaboration between the Eastern Townships Women On the March (ETWOM) who conceived and organized the project; the Lennoxville and District Women's Centre, who administered and provided infrastructure to the project and, finally, the Fonds régional de la participation sociale of the Conseil régional de développement de l’Estrie, which provided the financial support for the project.