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.
“The Crisis Line is My Lifeline”
94,736 94,736 is the number of times someone experiencing domestic or sexualized violence has reached out to us since March 2020. Just like you, when the covid-19 pandemic hit we knew it would dramatically change the world by making it harder for anyone living with an...
Registration Now Open: Violence Prevention & Intervention Training Fall 2022
“Volunteering with BWSS is life changing. You learn so much and it’s very empowering and healing to support other women.” -BWSS Volunteer Take action! Register now for BWSS “life changing” world renowned training. We are now taking applications for our Fall 2022...
BC REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE MANIFESTO
WE STILL HAVE WORK TO DO IN BRITISH COLUMBIA AND CANADA Re-blogged from Reproductive Justice Sexual and reproductive health (SRH) advocates in BC and across Canada have joined their voices together to demand reproductive justice. Advocates are calling on the federal...
BWSS Recommendations to BC Budget 2023 Consultation
Anyone living in the province can share their ideas and priorities for the next provincial budget in 2023. Every year, the provincial Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services holds a public consultation on the next provincial budget, and then...
Elder Abuse and Femicide of Older Women
World Elder Abuse Day Abuse and Femicide of the Older Woman Violence against women happens in the context of relationships. This is what makes abuse so very painful and so very dangerous. Through our work and through research we know that abuse consists of behaviours...
Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy
Abuse and Intimate Partner Violence During Pregnancy It’s more common than you think While pregnancy can bring out a new or renewed tenderness in many relationships, domestic violence is more common than any other health problem among women during pregnancy. Domestic...
Healing Connections Support Group
BWSS is thrilled to announce the Healing Connections support group has resumed in person meetings for the first time since 2020. At BWSS Support Groups are intrinsic to empowerment and empowerment is at the heart of healing from the oppression of abuse and violence....
Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Harassment in the Canadian Armed Forces
On May 30, 2022, Louise Arbour, a former Supreme Court Justice and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, delivered her powerful report, the Independent External Comprehensive Review into Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Harassment in the Department of...
BWSS Joins Chelsea Poorman’s Family, Indigenous, and Community Organizations to Demand VPD Investigation
Battered Women Support Services Joins Chelsea Poorman’s Family, Indigenous, and Community Organizations to Demand VPD Investigation (Xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil Waututh)/Vancouver, B.C. – May 13, 2022) – Battered Women...
BWSS supports the FAFIA RCMP report
The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action Releases Important Report “The Toxic Culture of the RCMP: Misogyny, Racism, and Violence Against Women in Canada’s National Police Force” The Canadian Feminist Alliance for International Action (FAFIA) has...
Surveillance Cameras Won’t Keep Survivors Safe
On April 26th, Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) joined a coalition of 14 organizations across Vancouver to oppose a proposed Vancouver City Council motion calling for the expansion of CCTV throughout the city. You can read our letter here.Thankfully, as a...
Housing Advocate Job Posting
New job opportunity at BWSS Apply to work with us BWSS is a feminist ending violence organization with an entrepreneurial spirit on a mission to end gender-based violence. For over 40 years we’ve walked alongside cis and trans women, femmes, and transfeminine...