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...

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...

             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...

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...

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 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...

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! 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...

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...

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...

Growing from forty years frontline knowledge, BWSS training and education program shapes and deepens the development of skills and analysis of individuals, groups and organizations to strengthen social service practices and to advance social change.At BWSS, our...

Over the last week there have been three mass shootings in the US. All three shooters had expressed their hatred for women.We have said it before and we will say it again, the subtext of acts of mass violence is misogyny. With each new story in the news, as details...