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.
#50DollarsNot50Shades ~ Fifty Shades of Grey: Power, Relationships, and Consent
#50DollarsNot50Shades Fifty Shades of Grey: Power, Relationships, and Consent The movie Fifty Shades of Grey opened in theatres last weekend grossing 81.7 million dollars in its first three days. It is categorized as an “erotic romance”, presented as “a love story”...
Women Seeking Justice – International Women’s Day 2015
Battered Women’s Support Services Legal Services and Advocacy Program Presents: Women Seeking Justice Women Seeking Justice Forum convenes a former judge, researchers, academics, lawyers, legal advocates, and feminist thinkers to illuminate pressing legal issues for...
#TheSilentX ~ Ending Violence Against Women and Girls
Cowboy Smithx is a man of many talents. He is a writer, actor and filmmaker from the Piikani and Kainai Tribes of the Blackfoot Confederacy. At Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS), we have had the change to work with him on a dating violence prevention video for...
February 14th Women’s Memorial March 2015 – “Their Spirits Live Within Us”
In January 1991 a woman was murdered on Powell Street in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. Her name is not spoken today out of respect for the wishes of her family. Her murder in particular acted as a catalyst and February 14 became a day of remembrance and...
Sexual Violence in Canada – An Equality Issue
by Rona Amiri, BWSS Violence Prevention Co-ordinator Violence against women continues to be a barrier preventing girls and women from living healthy, happy lives. Women who experience sexual violence in their homes, communities, workplaces and on campuses have to...
Police Officer-Involved Domestic Violence
When women are victims of violence by their male partners who are also members of police services they are in a uniquely vulnerable situation. When women experiencing abuse consider police a part of their safety plan, they are entrusting the police. Women who are...
25th Annual February 14th Women’s Memorial March Needs Your Help
“Their Spirits Live Within Us” 25th Annual February 14th Women’s Memorial March needs your help… The February 14th Women’s Memorial March began after the brutal and tragic murder of a Coast Salish woman in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES). Women from the community...
New Statistics Canada Report on Family Violence
A new report on Family Violence in Canada is released by Statistics Canada this morning. The report highlights that there were just under 88,000 victims of family violence in Canada in 2013, according to police-reported data. This represented more than one-quarter of...
Canada must act to prevent violence: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Murders and disappearances of Indigenous women caused by inequality, marginalization – Canada must act to prevent violence: Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (January 12, 2015) (OTTAWA and VANCOUVER) A groundbreaking...
Prevention and Intervention Training Program 2015 ~ Help End Violence Against Women
Twice a year, BWSS offers training for self-identified women who want to volunteer on our Crisis and Intake Line to provide crisis support to women survivors of violence. PARTICIPANTS WILL LEARN: • Theoretical Framework of Violence Against Women • Crisis Intervention...
16 Steps for Discovery and Empowerment Support Group
16 Steps for Discovery and Empowerment is a self-help group which can work in tandem with 12 Step programs. The group welcomes all self-identified women… • who have substance use issues or who have used substances as a coping strategy • who are seeking more...
BC Coroners Service Report
PRESS RELEASE For immediate release December 19, 2014 BC Coroners Service Report Confirms There’s a war on women and the battlefield is in their homes Vancouver, B.C.– The BC Coroners Service has made public a report examining the number of homicides resulting from...