Cross Links -- June 2002 Cross Links, a publication for health promotion practitioners, students, researchers, and policy makers, is available from the Centre for Health Promotion Studies. It is a forum for expressing views, sharing ideas, and acknowledging controversies related to health promotion. Family Violence: A Great Cost to Health Family violence is an ongoing and insidious problem throughout Canada, with serious implications for health. Alberta and British Columbia have the highest rates in the country. Alberta has 35 women's shelters, including three shelters on reserves, with only 24 receiving partial provincial government funding. There is an extreme shortage of shelter, and shelters are turning away incredible numbers of women. ...read more at http://www.chps.ualberta.ca/publications/cross_links.htm <http://www.chps.ualberta.ca/publications/cross_links.htm> . Please share this message with someone you think may be interested. Donna Richardson, Communications Coordinator Centre for Health Promotion Studies, University of Alberta E-mail: [log in to unmask] Phone: (780) 492-1386 Fax: (780) 492-9579 Web site: www.chps.ualberta.ca <www.chps.ualberta.ca> Send one line: unsubscribe click4hp to: [log in to unmask] to unsubscribe See: http://listserv.yorku.ca/archives/click4hp.html to alter your subscription