Empowering women to reach their best potential!
Professional Development
Learn, Grow, Thrive!
Entrepreneurship
Make Your Dreams Come True!
Mentorship
Building Capacity of our Community!
Health & Wellness
Take Care of Your Whole Self!
Networking
Make New Connections!
Cultural Activities
Celebrating Our Heritage
The Calgary Korean Women’s Association (CKWA) is a non-profit organization founded in 2011. We are committed to supporting Korean-Canadian women in Alberta involved in all facets of society. We offer programs and opportunities for women to gain new knowledge, upgrade their skills, find new avenues to grow, learn to establish themselves as entrepreneurs, and take care of their whole selves.
Membership in our association is open to anyone who shares in our vision, mission, and guiding principles, regardless of age, gender and ethnicity.
COVID-19
Our Current Projects
Bridging Gaps: Supporting Seniors Through Healthy Aging, Engagement, & Safety
The project aims to equip seniors with sustainable healthy habits, knowledge, and skills to better take care of themselves. We are offering 30 sessions topics related to overall wellness for supporting our seniors in the community.
Discussion topics focus on information, resources, knowledge, and practice related to physical health, mental health, food and nutrition, physical activity, stress management, and how to organize and protect their interests.
Community Wellness Project: Healthy Lifestyle, Healthy Outlook
The overall goal of this project is to improve the quality of life for not only our community but anyone who can benefit from the sessions we will be organizing. The sessions will re-connect our attendees with the community at large, facilitate a sense of belonging, and feel safe to reach out to each other for support, and encourage sharing experiences, most of all knowing what to do and how to cope in the times of adversity, feeling secure, and developing healthy lifestyles.
The project will provide a broad, yet specific sense of overall wellness for long-term impact, including physical, mental/emotional, financial, social, spiritual, occupational, and environmental wellness. Expert speakers are being engaged to offer sessions that will guide, and share information, best practices, and tips with a broad, yet specific sense of what overall wellness means for a long-term impact.
Funded by: The City of Calgary 
Activities Report 2020-2021
Speaker Spotlight
Tara Adams, Founder, Abridge Consulting
Tara Adams is the Founder of Abridge Consulting in Calgary. Abridge Consulting is based on a simple, but not easy, goal – to get more people, more help, sooner! With a strong background in learning and facilitation and a passion for workplace mental health, Tara spent several years as a Corporate Wellness Manager and championed workplace mental health and overall employee total health for 6,000 employees by building enterprise-wide strategies for mental, physical, emotional, and financial wellness.
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Volunteer With Us!
Becoming a volunteer is a great way to apply your skills, contribute to your community, and meet new people while making a difference and gaining new experiences. If you have any questions about volunteering, please email us at info.ckoreanwomen@gmail.com
Join our team of volunteers!
Become a Member!
If you would like to join CKWA or renew your membership for the year 2021, please apply today! If you have any questions about becoming a member, please email us at info.ckoreanwomen@gmail.com
Become a member to avail fantastic benefits!
Past Projects
Wellness Webinar Series: Promoting a Healthy Community Project 2021
With the support of the City of Calgary, CKWA offered the Wellness Webinar Series: Promoting a Healthy Community project from August 2021 to February 2022. The activities included 20 webinars on topics related to wellness for supporting the community in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic and equipping them with lasting healthy habits, knowledge, and skills to better take care of themselves and their families. Discussion topics were focused on overall well-being, such as physical activity, healthy eating, behavior modification, and stress management.
Act2EndRacism Project 2020
In collaboration with ACCT Foundation, Act2EndRacism project was undertaken with the support of the Canadian Red Cross. The project included a two-month webinar series “Coping with COVID-19 and its impact” from February 16 to March 19, 2021. Webinar topics were identified with an aim to equip our community with strategies to cope with the impact of COVID-19 and the rise of racism in society, particularly toward people of Asian descent.
