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
crisis appointments
13,894
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
Battered Women’s Support services provides many opportunities for you to work with us.
Support for survivors and victims
You have the right to be safe and free from violence.
My Sister’s Closet
A Social Enterprise of BWSS where 100 percent of revenue generated from sales help fund the violence prevention and intervention services and programs operated by BWSS.
Colour of Violence
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Strategic Interventions
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Synchronicity Second Stage Transition Housing Program
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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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Afghanistan’s New Taliban Penal Code and Gender Apartheid, What It Reveals About Public Safety in Canada
Image by Marius ArnesenOver the past week, a stark message has moved across feminist networks: “The Taliban has legalized domestic violence as long...
Latin American Women’s Counsellor
Latin American Women’s Counsellor Full-Time Permanent | 40 hours/week Start Date: March 9th,2026Schedule: Monday–Friday, 9:00 am–5:00 pm (some...
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