Adversity, Diversity, and Empowerment: Feminist Group Work with Women in Poverty

This chapter describes the evolving work of a small, grass roots women's organization, Opportunity for Advancement, in Toronto, Canada. For almost 20 years, the agency has been offering groups for women living on welfare who want to make changes in their lives–changes that promise a pathway out of grinding poverty, or that break down isolation and despair, or that offer some control over experiences of trauma and victimization.