Living with choices

Order form (Note: Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to view the order form. If you do not have it installed on your computer download it now and then install it.) Summary of Contents		Living with choices is a community education program for women of non-English speaking background.  It focuses on developing a sense of well-being and strengthening inner resources.  This program have been conducted for the past 2 years and have involved approximately one hundred and forty (140) women from diverse cultural backgrounds.  It forms part of the Bilingual Community Education (BCE) Program in Women’s Health. Price: $50 per copy of manual. To obtain a copy of Living with Choices manual please complete and send the order form to: Helen Tourtouras, Area BCE Co-ordinator Bankstown Central Community Health Centre Level 4, Compass Centre Fetherstone Street, Bankstown NSW 2200 Phone No: (02) 9780 2801   Fax No: (02) 9780 2888
Summary of Contents: INTRODUCTION The program enables women of non-English speaking backgrounds to acknowledge their capacity to rebuild their lives after migrating and to live in the Australian society as confident, active members. Living with choices follows the principles of the Healthy Women bilingual community education program.  It uses active learning techniques in an environment where women can think through the issues for themselves and relate them to their own and other's experiences.  In this supportive environment women's personal and cultural values are respected. GOALS The goals of this program are: to enable women of non-English speaking background to draw on their inner resources in order to be self determining. to create opportunities for change for themselves. to model those changes in the community in which they participate. OBJECTIVES By the end of the program, women will be able to: Define what self esteem and confidence are for them. Express clearly a sense of who they are. Acknowledge and express their feelings constructively. Recognise their rights as women. Identify ways of taking better care of themselves physically and emotionally. Practise different ways of relating to others.