An opportunity for the violence against women/anti-violence shelter sector to come together to learn, share, and develop a sector-led action plan for addressing the labour challenges our sector is facing.
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Check out our new national awareness campaign,
which illustrates how VAW shelters and transition houses
are “More Than” shelter.
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Canada's National Action Plan needs to be bold, ambitious, and intersectional.
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This special issue of Shelter Voices focuses on how violence against women (VAW) shelters/THs were affected by and have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Check out the full report, "Breaking the Cycle of Abuse and Closing the Housing Gap: Second Stage Shelters in Canada"
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Check out WSC’s two reports, “More Than a Bed,” which looks at shorter-term VAW shelters, and “Transitioning to a Life Free from Violence,” on longer-term second stage shelters.
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Our mission is to work as a unified voice for systemic change to end violence against women, while providing leadership for collaboration and knowledge exchange among shelters and transition houses across the country. Shelters support women and children fleeing violence. We support the shelters.