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Girls, Women & Alcohol Focus Groups: CWHN Report on Phase One

This report presents the preliminary findings from focus groups with young women (18-24) held in Toronto, Ontario to discuss their understanding and realities related to alcohol and drinking, and the best ways to communicate the health impacts of drinking. The CWHN Girls, Women and Alcohol Focus Groups report was prepared with financial support from the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO) in March 2014 as part of ongoing work related to young women and drinking. Read the focus group report.

YOUNG WOMEN (18 to 24 yrs)...

Take the survey on drinking

You could win a $50 coffee card by taking this 5 to 10-minute survey on drinking from the Canadian Women's Health Network:

Complete the survey now!

For one young woman's story, watch: Chiara de Blasio Tells Her Story - YouTube video of daughter of the incoming Mayor of New York City (December 2013)

NEW WEBSITE - National Roundtable on Girls, Women and Alcohol

CWHN has been working closely with Ann Dowsett Johnston, author of "Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol," on the new website National Roundtable on Girls, Women and Alcohol.

In particular (at the YouTube icon at the bottom of the website home page) you can watch several short video clips from our 2013 National Roundtable on Girls, Women and Alcohol.

To learn more about Ann Dowsett Johnson’s book, listen to her interview on CBC Sunday Edition with Michael Enright.

And check out girlswomenalcohol.org for information on the upcoming 2014 National Roundtable on Girls, Women and Alcohol.

WEBINAR - Our Favourite Drug: Why are Women and Girls Drinking so Much?

This CWHN webinar recording is now online! View the webinar here (53 minutes)

In this webinar, CWHN Executive Director Anne Rochon Ford interviews Ann Dowsett Johnston about her research, including questions and comments from viewers.

Presented by the Canadian Women’s Health Network and the British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health

NETWORK ARTICLE - Women and Alcohol: To your health?

Alcohol is a favourite drug for many people, and women may be having more problems with alcohol than many of us would like to think. Journalist Ann Dowsett Johnston spent a year talking with women, researchers and policy-makers to learn why women drink, and how alcohol affects us differently from men. The results are unsettling.

For more information about this issue, read Ann Dowsett Johnston's article

Women and Alcohol: To your health? published June 7, 2012 in CWHN’s Network magazine.

Related links:

Alcohol Policy Network

Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse

Blog: Girls, Women, Alcohol, and Pregnancy

Coalescing on Women and Substance Abuse: Linking Research, Practice and Policy

British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health publications

Girls, Women and Alcohol: Making Informed Choices

Women and Alcohol: A Women’s Health Resource

Alcohol and Pregnancy - Best Start Resources

Recovering Love: Mothers, their families, drugs and alcohol - A film by Laura Sky

Taking Charge: Young women, alcohol & sexual assault - Parent Action on Drugs

Women and Alcohol: A Special Report by Ann Dowsett Johnston – The 2010-2011 Atkinson Fellowship in Public Policy (Series published in the Toronto Star) PDF attached below.

CWHN’s Invitational Roundtable on Women and Alcohol

Toronto Star article, Alcohol one of Canada’s top health threats: Study discusses a new report by the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health that identifies alcohol as one of the greatest public health threats in Canada. It also mentions CWHN’s Invitational Roundtable in Toronto on March 8, 2013 which was co-chaired by Anne Rochon Ford, CWHN’s executive director, and Atkinson Fellow Ann Dowsett Johnston. Read the column by Judith Timson in the Toronto Star What can be done about our binge-drinking girls? published March 14, 2013.