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Preparing for September 17: Frontline Experience & the National Action Plan

As we prepare for our September 17 National Implementation Roundtable, Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS) is gathering a snapshot of what frontline organizations across British Columbia are experiencing and what the current National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence has meant in practice.

The B.C. Legislature's Finance Committee recently issued Recommendation 68, calling for coordinated planning and accountability across housing, justice, health and community-based violence response services to support an "integrated and timely response" to intimate partner violence. This comes against an important backdrop. Nearly 48% of girls and women in British Columbia have experienced intimate partner violence since age 15, while 80% of intimate partner violence is not reported to police.

As governments begin looking toward the next phase of the National Action Plan, BWSS is interested in a straightforward question: What has the current National Action Plan investment built or sustained at the frontline and, ultimately, what has changed for victims and survivors?

Our particular interest is intimate partner violence. We also recognize that organizations work across many forms of gender-based violence and that IPV may arise within broader community, housing, settlement, counselling, legal, Indigenous, culturally specific and other services. We want to understand what funding reached organizations, what it enabled, whether it created additional capacity, whether that capacity remains, what organizations are experiencing now, and what should inform the next National Action Plan.

There are no preferred answers. Different organizations will have had very different experiences, including organizations that received no National Action Plan-related funding or are unsure whether funding they received was connected to the NAP.

The survey should take approximately 5–7 minutes.

Does your organization currently provide services or supports to victims and survivors of intimate partner violence?
What intimate partner violence services or supports does your organization provide? Select all that apply.
Since 2023, has your organization received funding that you understand to be connected to the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence?
If YES: Approximately how much NAP-related funding has your organization received in total?

Did any of this funding support your work with victims and survivors of intimate partner violence?
What was the nature of the NAP-related funding you received? Select all that apply.
Overall, did this funding increase your organization’s ongoing service capacity beyond what existed before the funding?
Does the capacity created or sustained through this funding still exist today?
Thinking specifically about victims and survivors of intimate partner violence, what is your organization currently experiencing? Select all that apply.
Thinking about the period since the current National Action Plan began, are there services, supports or forms of assistance that victims and survivors of intimate partner violence can access through your organization today that were not available, or were significantly less available, before 2023?
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Use of Responses

BWSS will use responses to help inform our September 17 National Implementation Roundtable and our analysis of the next phase of Canada's National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence.

We are interested in identifying what worked, what was built or sustained, and where gaps remain.

We will not publicly attribute comments, organization-specific funding information or individual responses without permission.

Thank You

Thank you for taking the time to share your organization's experience. Your input will help ensure that the September 17 discussion and our work on the next National Action Plan are grounded in what frontline organizations are actually experiencing.

As a thank-you for completing the survey, respondents may receive a $75 gift certificate to shop at My Sister’s Closet, BWSS’s social enterprise thrift boutique. Would you like to receive a gift certificate?
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