Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) will commemorate Prevention of Violence Against Women Week again this year by engaging the community in violence prevention through the following events:
CORE Training for Front-line Workers
Five day multi-media skill based training to support front line workers in their work to end violence against women
April 18 – 22, 2016
My Sister’s Closet – 1092 Seymour Street, Vancouver
Contact: strategicinterventions@bwss.org
Youth Against Violence Training – Musqueam Nation
Battered Women’s Support Services in collaboration with Musqueam Indian Band to host Drumming Up Courage a peer-led awareness and training workshops for teenage girls and boys. Topics include: healthy relationships, cyber-violence, dating violence, date rape and how to be an empowered bystander.
April 12-14 &18 – 22, 2016
Musqueam Nation
Contact: yev@bwss.org
Violence Against Women Knows No Age Limits
Much has been written about dating violence, violence against adult women and elder abuse. The invisibility of the abuse of senior women is what Battered Women’s Support Services seeks to change. This prevention week, Battered Women’s Support Services raises awareness of the prevalence of violence against senior women, the warning signs and specific considerations for senior women who experience violence.
April 18 – 24, 2016
Online at www.bwss.org, Twitter and Facebook
Contact: endingviolence@bwss.org
Preventing Violence against Women on Earth Day, April 22, 2016
BWSS hosts a clothing swap and thrifting event to build awareness around local and social environmental action. The fashion industry is the second most polluting industry on Earth, right behind oil. The average Canadian throws away 70 pounds of clothing and textiles into the trash each year. Garment workers are some of the lowest paid workers in the world and 85% of all garment workers are women.
Friday, April 22, 2016
My Sister’s Closet – 1092 Seymour Street, Vancouver
Contact: samantha@bwss.org
Kids from Camelot ~ Benefit for BWSS
Terry Wolfe, the creator of the film, Kids from Camelot, has made the screening of his film on April 23rd a benefit for Battered Women’s Support Services ~ proceeds from ticket sales will go to BWSS.
Kids from Camelot is a fantasy musical reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz about two kids who put down their cell phones and time travel back to Camelot to find out if an old sword in their storage locker is really King Arthur’s long lost Excalibur. They see what childhood should be about and start a counter revolution against TV and cell phone addicts.
Saturday, April 23, 2016
VanCity Theatre – 1181 Seymour St., Downtown Vancouver
Tickets: http://www.vtixonline.com/event.php?event_id=754
Learn more about previous Prevention of Violence Against Women Weeks’ BWSS has participated in:
Prevention of Violence Against Women Week 2012
Prevention of Violence Against Women Week 2013
