Due to freezing temperatures, the Mayor’s Office of Homeless Services has declared a winter shelter warning for Thursday, December 19, 2024 through Tuesday, December 24 at 9 am. Call 211 (available 24/7) or 443-984-9540 to connect with shelter. Get more info here.
Women's History Month
March welcomes Women’s History Month. We come together to honor all those who experience life through the lens, body, spirit, identity of a woman.
Explore a few ways you can celebrate Women’s History Month— past, present, future, and fluid— in 2023 below:
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Women’s Health Day
Support Women’s Health Day planning at the agency! The kick-off planning meeting is on Thursday, March 2 at 2 p.m. If you can’t make this meeting but still want to be on the committee, check in with your supervisor and Population Health Nurse Shannon Riley. Anticipate about five planning meetings and day-of event participation. The event is tentatively scheduled for May 18 from 11-3 pm at 421 Fallsway.
Upcoming Woman's History Month Events in 2023:
Women Making History at Health Care for the Homeless
Therapist Case Manager, Tammy Montague, LCSW-C and Chief Behavioral Health Officer Lawanda Williams, LCSW-C, MPH, continue to lean into the social work values of service and social justice both within Health Care for the Homeless’ walls and outside of them. In response to a recent report published by the Association of Social Work Boards which unveiled jarring disparities in social work board examination pass rates by race, the two have taken it amongst themselves to engage in legislative advocacy to remediate the effects of these disparate exam results.
Having submitted written testimony and expert opinions in support of Maryland Senate bills SB 871 and SB 872, which seek to establish a workgroup to identify alternatives to examination for social workers and provide temporary licenses to practice for those who have fulfilled their social work educational requirements, these two women are a part of history in the making.
If you’re interested in this work or being a part of our public policy efforts in other areas of practice, feel free to reach out to Joanna Diamond, Director of Public Policy.
Women's history is happening right now!
If you identify as a woman, how have YOU made history in your own way? Or how has a woman in your life made history - whether that's in your family, within a profession or in the wider community?
Explore some of the response here
Let us know below, and you'll be entered to win a gift card to a local woman-owned business in Baltimore!