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1981-1990 (Creation)
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- Greaves, Lorraine
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30 cm of textual records; 1 volume of textual records
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Lorraine Greaves was chair of the board of directors and co-founder of the London Battered Women's Advocacy Clinic, an organization founded by the Women's Educational and Research Foundation of Ontario with the purpose of providing comprehensive counselling, legal and information services to battered women in the community. The clinic evolved from preliminary research conducted by Constance Backhouse, law professor at The University of Western Ontario, and research conducted by her students in 1979-1980. Funded with a demonstration grant from Health and Welfare Canada, the Clinic opened on February 14, 1983. Providing individual and group counselling to women who had suffered physical assault, sexual abuse, financial deprivation or mental abuse, the Clinic also operated public and professional education programs, provided information on available resources, and conducted research to demonstrate the effects of family violence on women and to identify gaps in services to abused women. Since 2001, the Clinic has operated as the London Abused Women's Centre.
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Fonds consists of records created and acquired by Lorraine Greaves in her capacity as chair of the board of directors of the London Battered Women's Advocacy Clinic. Records relate to the operations of the clinic at a high level rather than the day-to-day operations and reflect decisions that were made and policies that were implemented. Included in the fonds are meeting minutes and associated records, financial statements, proposals and applications for funding, by-laws, records of the long range planning committee, reports of the clinics work, lists of board of directors members, correspondence and brochures.
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Additional records relating to the London Battered Women's Advocacy Clinic can be found in AFC 100 the London Women's History Group collection under series 2 - London Battered Women's Advocacy Clinic records.