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.
Healthy Dating? There’s an app for that!
http://smr.newswire.ca/en/ywca/healthy-dating-theres-an-app-for-that-ywca-canada Healthy dating? There’s an app for that! YWCA Canada launches YWCA Safety Siren app for iPhone Toronto, May 21, 2010 - As part of its ongoing work to end violence...
Aboriginal Women’s Safety and Residential School Survivor Application Process
Please see our resource The Indian Act, Indian Residential School and Aboriginal Women’s Empowerment written by Katrina Harry as well as women specific information of Common Experience Payments and Independent Assessment Process and safety....
Homeless & Murdered by Rita Jasper
Women Go Missing and Die amid Government and Social Apathy Women’s Anti Violence Advocates Meet in Winnipeg Manitoba and Discuss National Strategy to End Violence against Women FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (WINNIPEG MB, December 15, 2009) “There...
Dating Violence – isn’t always physical
Know The Red Flags
Red Flags is a project of the Texas Council on Family Violence (TCFV) especially designed to help young adults form healthy relationships by learning to spot and deal with the warning signs of dating violence....
Non Status, Refugee & Immigrant Women (NSRIW) Manual Excerpt
In January 2010, 368 women accessed services at Battered Women’s Support Services. Services included victim services, support groups, legal advocacy, employment program and counseling. Further, over 500 women called our crisis line. Of...
Claudette Osborne-Tyo has been missing since July 24, 2008
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The Violence Stops Here T-Shirts Are Available
The Violence Stops Here T-Shirts are available at My Sister’s Closet-a social enterprise of Battered Women’s Support Services two locations in Vancouver: Commercial Drive – 1029 Commercial Drive Phone: 604-254-7471 Yaletown – 1092 Seymour...
Silent No More
A picture montage by Shelley Cook from the Women's Memorial March, held in Winnipeg, MB Canada on Sunday, May 9, 2010, to honour the reported almost 600 missing and murdered Aboriginal women in Canada. Song: Silent No More by Little Hawk...
The Violence Stops Here – A Call To Men
Battered Women’s Support Services - The Violence Stops Here Urging Men to Own Their Role 10 Things Men Can Do In Domestic and Sexual Violence Prevention by A Call to Men (ACT) 1. Acknowledge and understand how male dominance and aspects...
Youth Engagement in Violence Prevention
Battered Women’s Support Services has been awarded funding to pilot a Youth Engagement in Violence Prevention Project. In their intimate relationships, 1 in 7 high school girls/young women have experienced physical and/or sexual abuse...
The Violence Stops Here
Members of the Battered Women’s Support Services Team Car Free Days In Vancouver, BC, Canada Take the pledge to end violence against women