Community Outreach

Marilyn Cocozza Trillo, Chair

Purpose/Description:

The purpose of the Community Outreach Committee is to support and promote the RICW using public forums, special events and other networking opportunities that acknowledge and encourage the accomplishments of women and girls in Rhode Island. In addition, the committee helps provide opportunities for Rhode Island women to express their needs and concerns and makes recommendations to the Full Commission regarding these matters.

Accomplishments during FY 2006

RICW Website -   The RICW completed an overhaul of the Website, making it more user friendly and accessible.

Public Relations Activities -   The RICW has participated in numerous speaking engagements and other public forums including:

• Presentation for Women’s Equality Day at the Veteran’s Hospital
• Airings of Linda H. Newton and Women of the Year Recipients on Amazing Women and Vital Women radio shows.
• Women of the Year Event (Cheryl Watkins Snead and Susan D. Wallace)
• Independent Women Pins distributed at the Color My World fashion show to promote healthy breast awareness to minority women.
• Presentation to the Health Department delegation
• Presentation to URI Women’s Studies class
• Presentation to DeMarco Group
• Presentation at Kiwanis Club
• Presentation on Human Papillomavirus Vaccine
• Presentation to Women in Construction
• In-kind participation in the Martin Luther King Jr. Legislative Issues  event, sponsored by the Civil Rights Roundtable
• Presentation to the Albanian delegation
• Publication of Op-Ed piece, entitled Women Need a Political Voice
• Freda Goldman Education Award Ceremony
• Participated in the Minority Legislative Caucus’ Cross Cultural Leadership Summit
• Presentation on women in politics to URI group, Intellectual Vivacious Young Sisters (IVYS)
• Presentation to the Thai delegation
• Independent Women Pins distributed at the Minority Women in Healthcare Summit, sponsored by the Department of Health
• Presentation on Access to Care at Women and Infants Hospital
• Presentation to Salve Regina University nursing faculty
• Presentation to the Girl Scouts Leadership Class
• In-kind participation in the Emerging Women in Business Conference, sponsored by the RI Coalition for Minority Business and the Center for Women and Enterprise
• Selected recipients for the 2006 (FY 2007) Women of the Year Event
• Participated in the following committees:  Civil Rights Roundtable, Attorney General’s Domestic Violence Task Force, Permanent Legislative Commission on Child Care, Center for Women and Enterprise Advisory Committee, Office of Women’s Health Advisory Committee, Polaris Project RI, Women’s Fund Event Planning Committee, Women’s Prison Learning Lab, Emerging Women in Business Conference Planning Committee.

 

Press Releases and Media Responses -   This committee provides support to all committees in preparing media responses and press releases related to RICW programs and projects.