Women’s Shelters Canada’s Participation in the Mass Casualty Commission
March 7, 2022 Last month, on February 22, the Mass Casualty Commission began its public proceedings. As stated on its website, this commission is “the independent public inquiry created to examine the April 18-19, 2020 [...]
WSC’s Krys Maki Talks New Second Stage Shelter Project, $2M Grant from Slaight Family Foundation
Krys Maki In September 2020, Women’s Shelters Canada (WSC) released a ground-breaking report on second stage shelters entitled, Breaking the Cycle of Abuse and Closing the Housing Gap: Second Stage Shelters in Canada. [...]
Upholding Dignity Through the PEACE for Canadian Children & Youth Project: A Conversation with Tracy Myers
Tracy Myers Created in 1992 by transition houses in British Columbia, the Prevention, Education, Advocacy, Counselling, and Empowerment (PEACE) Program is a free, confidential, community-based program dedicated to supporting children and youth who [...]
NACAFV and WSC Research Study on Funding Parity in VAW and VAIW Shelters
Women’s Shelters Canada (WSC) and the National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence (NACAFV) are collaborating on a new research project exploring the funding that violence against women (VAW) and violence against Indigenous women (VAIW) shelters [...]
Where Do We Go from Here? Reflections on the VAW Shelter Sector and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Saadia Muzaffar On April 6, 2021, three WSC Board members had a virtual discussion to reflect on what the VAW shelter sector has learned after a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and what [...]
Where We’ve Been: Reflections on the VAW Shelter Sector and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Saadia Muzaffar On April 6, 2021, three WSC Board members had a virtual discussion to reflect on what the VAW shelter sector has learned after a year of the COVID-19 pandemic, and what [...]