FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 29, 2013 Contact: Desiree Evans Women With a Vision Office: 504-301-0428 Statement on the Rise of Deadly Overdoses in the New Orleans Metro Area WWAV Calls for the Passage of Good Samaritan 911 Legislation in Louisiana By Catherine Jones, MD A recent article in the The Times-Picayune entitled, “Heroin fuels surge […]
Last month, more than one hundred harm reductionists and drug policy advocates gathered in New Orleans for the Southern Harm Reduction and Drug Policy Conference. The conference was an amazing opportunity for groups across the region and nation to come together to learn about and discuss how drug policy impacts marginalized populations and our community […]
This past holiday season WWAV continued our twenty-year tradition of providing holiday gifts and dinners for residents in our community. In the process of meeting with families over the holidays, we heard stories that highlighted so many of the issues we tackle in our advocacy – the issues of food access, transportation access, and the […]
Women With a Vision’s Deon Haywood will be speaking at Tulane University’s second annual Audre Lorde Week. The week is an opportunity for students, faculty, staff, and community members to come together to develop tools for using human difference as a springboard for creative change. According to the organizers, the experiences planned for the week […]
Women With A Vision is excited to join the Raising Women’s Voices campaign to help women get covered under the Affordable Care Act insurance plans. The RWV campaign is an initiative between several national state and local health advocates who are committed to making the promise of health reform real for women. The campaign is […]