Ending Violence Blog
Via our award winning blog Battered Women’s Support Services provides education and advocacy as we work towards the elimination of violence.
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40 Years Later...In 1979, five women started Battered Women’s Support Services with the goal of ending violence against women. Forty years later and the journey continues. Join us at The Orpheum Theatre on November 25, 2019, the International Day for the Elimination...
Our counselling team is growing -because of your generosity!
Battered Women's Support Services counselling team is growing as a result of YOUR generosity! Because of our donors, our counselling program is expanding. We're currently recruiting four new counsellors. BWSS is a feminist ending violence organization with an...
Support Survivors: Paid Leave To Survivors Of Domestic And Sexual Violence Survey
One control tactic used by abusive partners is disrupting their partners’ professional life: harassing them on the job or interfering with child-care plans so they can’t get to work. Estimates of survivors of intimate partner violence being bothered in some way by...
Advocacy and Accountability: The Effort for Justice
Sagmoen Back in Court on MondayBattered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) will be on-site in Vernon, BC Monday, September 9th, 2019 at 8:30 am for the latest trial of serial attacker of women, Curtis Sagmoen. In his latest trial, Sagmoen stands accused of eight offenses...
She was a “known Surrey prostitute with an extensive criminal record”
On my second shift working relief at a sex worker resource centre in the Vancouver area, I was stopped by a program participant named Arlene[1]. Arlene is an older Indigenous woman with a kind, sincere smile; she knows everyone and she always sits in the...
Massy Books: Connecting Community
Five years ago Patricia came on as a volunteer at My Sister’s Closet, social enterprise of BWSS. Patricia is Cree and a member of the As'in'i'wa'chi Ni'yaw Nation. After 17 years of working at various bookstores and non-profits, she was inspired to open her own used...
These 8 Weeks Are The Most Dangerous Time For Campus Sexual Assault
Across the country, thousands of students are heading off to university, many for the first time. It's an exciting time, meeting new people, discovery and learning. It's also the beginning of a period of eight weeks where the most sexual violence occurs on Canadian...
The Problem with Fast Fashion
The Problem with Fast Fashion In the last two decades something has changed in the fashion industry. Clothes have become cheaper, trend cycles have sped up and shopping has become a monthly if not weekly event for many of us. Fast Fashion, large global chains dominate...
Thrive
BWSS is proud to offer our Thrive program, a program carefully designed to support the diverse needs of women with lived experience in sex economies in setting and achieving their goals. We understand that women’s experiences in the industries differ widely from one...
Black Out!
Black Out! is a monthly meet-upBlack Out! is an evening out for Black Women with Black ExperiencesBlack Out! is time in a safe space where you are the norm and not the otherBlack Out! Is an opportunity for affirmation and authenticityLet’s come together to celebrate...
Judges, Justice and The Criminal Legal System
By Rona AmiriIn 2015, an in Alberta told a young woman that she could have avoided rape by keeping her knees together.In 2015, acquitted a man for murder in the killing of Cindy Gladue, the trial was tainted by an incredible lack of knowledge of even the most basic...
It’s Time
As we know, the need for immediate action on gender-based violence is critical. In 2018, a woman or girl was killed every 2.5 days and on average, a woman is killed every six days by her intimate partner in Canada. And it has only been a couple of months since the...