Safety Changes Everything
Choose Your Path
48% of women in Canada have experienced intimate partner violence.
That number reflects unfinished progress, generations of victims and survivors forced change, yet barriers remain.
We’re leading survivor-centred public safety reform.
BWSS is reframing public safety
Survivors of gender-based violence are being failed by the very systems meant to protect them. We’re calling for urgent, systemic change—and we want to hear from you.
2024-2025
Frontline Impact
Every number reflects a moment when safety mattered.
crisis calls
12,213
nearly 50 every day
counselling sessions
5,720
requests for support across programs
+45,532
crisis appointments
13,894
people in support groups and community programs
2,882
protection order success rate
97%
trained volunteers supporting crisis response
45%
Safety Changes Everything
Your support answers the next call for safety, funding frontline intervention, and legal advocacy so survivors can rebuild their lives.
We respond to gender-based violence through support, prevention, advocacy, social enterprise, and systems change.
#DesignedWithSurvivors
Violence against women and gender-based violence does not happen in isolation. #DesignedWithSurvivors is BWSS’s ongoing work to reshape social and public safety through and survivor leadership in municipal advocacy, provincial policy change, prevention strategies, and frontline insights from survivors and advocates.
Colour Of Violence
The Colour of Violence Institute advances community-based research and systems change work rooted in the lived experiences of Indigenous, Black, immigrant, and racialized survivors of gender-based violence, using survivor knowledge to transform justice systems and policy responses.
My Sister’s Closet
A Social Enterprise of BWSS where 100 percent of revenue generated from sales of good quality used fashion help fund the violence prevention and intervention services and programs operated by BWSS.
Strategic Interventions
Strategic Interventions brings together BWSS professional education, cross-sector training, and and volunteer development grounded in real-world practice and systems change.
BWSS Volunteer Program
For those interested in directly supporting survivors, BWSS provides specialized training preparing volunteers for crisis line and advocacy roles responding to gender-based violence.
Synchronicity Second Stage Transition Housing Program
Safe, affordable temporary accommodation and support services for women and children who have experienced violence.
60 Barriers / Six Systems of Safety
Survivors don’t face a single barrier. They navigate entire systems.
Our framework guides how safety is built across every system survivors encounter.
Ending Violence Blog
Our advocacy work extends to our award winning Ending Violence Blog where we provide resources and information to end gender based violence.
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