Colorado
Women’s Agenda promotes economic self-sufficiency initiatives and addresses
the root causes of racial disparities that disenfranchise women politically.
Colorado
Women’s Agenda is an anti-racist, social justice network that advocates
statewide for economic security, political empowerment and race equity. We
engage women along a continuum of non-partisan activism, including
grassroots organizing, community education, leadership development and
political participation at both local and statewide levels.
Many of our
programs overlap each other. For example, the majority of incarcerated women
commit crimes of poverty. They are mothers of children under 18 and
represent the most vulnerable of society. CWA is assisting lower
income women of color to become financially self-sufficient and
knowledgeable of their political and economic rights. This is happening
through a variety of programs so they have other options and a support
system rather than committing crimes of poverty . We see this as apart of
our antiracist work.
In December 2007, CWA held its first Financial
Literacy course with participants at Tooley Hall, a 60-bed community
corrections program for adult female offenders that works to ensure that
participants are prepared for independent community living.
Financial Literacy classes will also be offered
at the Center for Work Education and Employment and the Single Mothers of
Color Spring Conference on Health and Wealth. Additional Financial Literacy
programs will be offered during 2008. Call CWA at
303.863.7336 if you
know of a group who would like to learn about financial literacy.
The health and viability of
communities and the most vulnerable populations of those communities is
directly related to the health of the environment, and the mind-body-spirit
connection. Wholeness and security are interrelated. CWA is committed to
practicing loving kindness and non-harming action to ourselves, the
community and the environment. At the same time, systems of injustice, hate
and exploitation must be dismantled. We incorporate this philosophy into our
organizational decision-making and invite our constituents to practice
as we all expand our consciousness in new ways of actualizing justice and
wholeness. CWA by centralizing low-income women of color, is not starting
from a point of "prevention" but of healing.
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