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Women for Sobriety. Women for Sobriety (WFS) is a non-profit secular addiction recovery group for women with addiction problems. WFS was created by sociologist Jean Kirkpatrick in 1976 as an alternative to twelve-step addiction recovery groups like Alcoholics Anonymous (AA). As of 1998 there were more than 200 WFS groups worldwide. [1]
Patricia E. Deegan is an American disability-rights advocate, psychologist and researcher. She has been described as a "national spokesperson for the mental health consumer/survivor movement in the United States." [1] Deegan is known as an advocate of the mental health recovery movement (a cofounder of the National Empowerment Center) [2] and ...
Pagans in recovery is a phrase, which is frequently used within the recovery community, to describe the collective efforts of Neopagans as well as Indigenous, Hindu, Buddhist, and other like-minded groups, to achieve abstinence or the remission of compulsive/addictive behaviors through twelve-step programs and other programs, such as Alcoholics Anonymous, Narcotics Anonymous, Overeaters ...
A longtime Des Moines nonprofit has opened a new facility aimed to house women in recovery and in need of continual support, services, safety and community. The Beacon, which provides various ...
New York Women's Rights Convention of 1866, New York, eleventh in the series. Washington Women's Rights Convention of 1869, Washington, D.C., twelfth in the series. International Congress of Women, general heading used since 1878 with the International Congress of Women's Rights, Paris. Jewish Women's Congress, 1893, Chicago, Illinois.
Hortensia Amaro. Hortensia Amaro is a Cuban-American educator, and formerly Distinguished Professor at Northeastern University [1] and Associate Vice Provost of Community Research and Dean's Professor of Social Work and Preventative Medicine at the University of Southern California. [2] Amaro was born in Cuba and moved to Los Angeles ...
LifeRing Secular Recovery. LifeRing Secular Recovery ( LifeRing or LSR) is a secular, non-profit organization providing peer-run addiction recovery groups. The organization provides support and assistance to people seeking to recover from alcohol and drug addiction, and also assists partners, family members and friends of addicts or alcoholics.
Its mission is "to support the women leaders of today and tomorrow". The IWF hosts two conferences each year to address women's issues and it provides intensive leadership training programs for women. The Leadership Foundation, Inc., a supporting organization, provides a Fellows Program and the Women Athletes Business Network (WABN) Program. [2 ...