Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Safety Planning : A Toolkit for Survivors
This safety plan is an adaptable tool to help keep you safe in your ever-changing situation. Violence against women continues as an epidemic. Planning for safety can be one way to take back power in abusive relationships. Although you can’t control an intimate partner’s use of violence, planning for safety can help you evaluate, define options and opportunities for liberation and safety.
The Road to Safety: Indigenous Survivors in BC Speak Out against Intimate Partner Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic
This report highlights the experiences of Indigenous survivors in B.C experiencing intimate partner violence during the pandemic. For Indigenous women and gender diverse people, the COVID-19 pandemic is exacerbating the pre-existing reality of gendered colonial violence, and survey findings show that Indigenous women and gender diverse people are experiencing an increase in the frequency and severity of intimate partner violence (IPV).
Toolkit for Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services
This companion toolkit accompanies the report “Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services,” and details key barriers for racialized survivors seeking safety and offers best practices in developing anti-racist interventions that better supports Indigenous, Black, newcomer immigrant/refugee, and racialized survivors.
Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services
A community-based research project to better understand and raise awareness on the experiences of Indigenous, Black, newcomer immigrant/refugee, and racialized survivors accessing gender-based violence services in B.C.
How Can I Help My Friend
This toolkit is to assist family members and friends who are wondering how best to support a loved one who is experiencing gender-based violence. If you have thought “What can I do to help my friend?,” then this resource is for you.
And Still We Rise Podcast
Explore how women are taking action on gender oppression from an intersectional lens in the And Still We Rise Podcast with host Angela Marie MacDougall.
Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
Battered Women’s Support Services team members in an online discussion about what we know about gender-based violence before COVID-19, how these public health issues are currently intertwined, and learnings we will take with us after the pandemic
Webinar: Supporting Women with Precarious Immigration Status
In this webinar, the BC Refugee Hub and Battered Women’s Support Services launch a new safety assessment and safety planning tool for supporting women with precarious immigration status and refugees facing domestic violence.