Stardale Women's Group Inc. Foundation©

There are a variety of workshops tailored to the needs of the professional/community that are readily available on such themes as:

the Stardale Model curriculum i.e. abuse / violence, co –dependency, grieving
girls – gender roles and demystifying what the media depicts the “roles” of being a female
violence and trauma - how it effects learning
proposal writing
assessment to design and to deliver projects in your community
networking and capacity building

The Stardale Model - For the Enlightenment of Women

The Stardale Model has been written into a curriculum format.The manual contains all the detailed information for the set-up of the education/healing environment, in conjunction with the activities and lesson plans.

The Model is a 14 week/5 day per week extensive self-development tool. This is to be implemented as a multi-disciplinary approach to healing, education, culture, community development, health and prior learning.

Missing Women’s Conference

Missing Sisters: An alarming trend, the disappearance or death of Aboriginal women, is emerging across Canada. Specific evidence includes the Picton pig farm killings, the missing women on Highway 16, the Native Women’s Association of Canada's Sisters In the Street campaign, the creation by the Saskatchewan RCMP of a department with two officers to investigate missing women, Amnesty International’s STOP Violence Against Women Campaign which focuses on Aboriginal women and lastly Aboriginal director Christine Welsh’s movie Finding Dawn, which tells the stories of the missing women from Vancouver to Regina.

In August 2008, the Missing Indigenous Women’s Conference was held in Regina, Saskatchewan at the First Nations University, Luther College – The University of Regina and the Conexus Arts Centre. The 3 day conference had women attending from Canada, the United States and Mexico. Stardale was actively involved in the pre-conference, and the conference delivery. It was here that the comic book, “Life as You don’t know it” was first launched.

“The murder of poor (literally and figuratively) aboriginal women is the most extreme manifestation of the price first nations, Inuit and Métis peoples are paying for the abysmal social conditions in which they are trapped. The murders are also a gruesome symbol of society's indifference to that plight.”

“Much was made of the fact that virtually all of mass murderer Robert Pickton's victims were sex workers. But rarely did we hear that almost all his victims were young aboriginal women. There is evidence that a serial killer may also be at work in Manitoba, and a single man may also be responsible for the carnage along British Columbia's infamous Highway of Tears. (The Yellowhead Highway, which stretches 750 kilometres from Prince George to Prince Rupert has been the site of nine murders and disappearances since 1990, all but one of the victims young aboriginal women.) But the reality is that the Highway of Tears stretches from sea-to-sea-to-sea in this country: Aboriginal women have been murdered or disappeared by the score in every single province and territory in Canada. Our wilful blindness to the plight of aboriginal women is the greatest injustice.”

Andre Picard's Second Opinion

Andre Picard Globe and Mail Thursday, Sep. 03, 2009 12:00AM EDT