What's New
If you work in Community-based Victim Services, Stopping the Violence Counselling, Stopping the Violence Outreach or Multicultural Outreach, please take the EVA BC Online Survey!
Click here to take EVA BC's Online Survey!
The 3-part survey covers the following topics:
-Prevention Activities
-Increasing Accessibility
-Community Coordination
Many of the survey's questions are multiple choice with the option of adding comments if you wish. You may choose to complete the entire survey or just some of the sections. We estimate the survey may be completed in about 15 minutes or longer, depending on the amount of detail you would like to provide.
Survey responses from the first two sections will provide EVA BC with information that will be summarized and used to assist us in providing feedback to the Victim Services and Crime Prevention Division of Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General. Responses from the third section will be summarized and used solely to provide EVA BC and Community Coordination for Women's Safety (CCWS) with current information about community coordination throughout BC.
Please participate if you can. Your feedback is very, very important to us.
RESCHEDULED! NEW DATES ARE:
Training Forum March 1 & 2, 2012
Special General Meeting March 3, 2012
Register Now!
To download a complete March 2012 Training Forum Brochure click here »
To download 2-page March 2012 Training Forum Registration Form only click here »
We thank everyone for their understanding and support around the unavoidable postponement of this year's Annual Training Forum originally scheduled to be in November 2011. We sincerely hope that many of you will be able to reschedule and we look forward to seeing you there in March 2012!
Tracy Porteous Honoured With Lifetime Achievement Award
Tracy Porteous, EVA BC's Executive Director, was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Representative for Children and Youth's Awards of Excellence on Thursday, October 13, 2011 for her dedication to improving the lives of children, youth and families across B.C. for over 30 years. More information can be found in the news release, here.
Congratulations, Tracy!
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Visit the new web pages for Be More Than a Bystander!
On July 7, 2011, EVA BC and the BC Lions Football Team launched their groundbreaking initiative, "Be More Than a Bystander", aimed at substantially increasing awareness and understanding about the impact of men's violence against women.
This 2-year initiative will see sports icons from the BC Lions use their status and public profile to create awareness about violence against women in BC and urge everyone to “Break the Silence on Violence Against Women”.
Click here to access all Be More Than a Bystander Public Service Announcements (PSAs)
Travis Lulay's Video PSA - A Few Ways to Be More Than a BystanderContent on the Be More Than a Bystander pages will be changing as the project unfolds, so please visit us again for updates!
Sharing, Gathering, Honouring: Increasing Safety for Aboriginal Women, Youth and Communities
View keynotes from the Northwest Gathering that took place on March 17 & 18, 2011 in Terrace!
Speakers were Brenda and Matilda Wilson, Marilyn George, Belinda LaCombe, Ruby Morgan, Mavis Erickson and Paul Michel, Terry Swan, Lerinda Swain, and Ninu Kang.
On January 18, 2011, Marilyn George, a STV Outreach Worker with the Northern Society for Domestic Peace in Smithers, BC came to Vancouver to present to Status of Women Canada's House of Commons Committee about the issue of violence against Aboriginal women in Canada.
Marilyn described her presentation to the Committee as a very positive experience, stating that she "felt empowered and happy that First Nation women are being heard more and more."
To download Marilyn's full presentation to the House of Commons committee, click here »
Domestic Violence Victim Advocate's Guide - Jocelyn Coupal
The DVVAG summarizes some of the risk factors that have been associated with an increased likelihood of future violence in intimate relationships. This document is intended to assist and guide Victim Advocates with the identification of high risk victims, safety planning and referral.
Spot the Signs - Before Someone Dies
Spot the Sign Before Someone Dies - Jocelyn Coupal
Domestic homicides are the most predicatable and preventable of all murders. The problem is that most of us do not know what to look for or what questions to ask to figure out whether someone who is in an abusive relatoinship might be at risk of being killed. This checklist of lethality factors helps educate about the potential of serious risk for escalating or lethal violence.
Revised VAWIR Policy Available
December 2010 saw the release of the Ministry of Public Safety, Ministry of Attorney General and Ministry of Children and Family Development's revised Violence Against Women in Relationships Policy.
VAWIR Policy December 2010
In April 2010, EVA BC hosted an event at Victoria's Fairmont Empress Hotel that saw acclaimed educator, author and filmmaker Jackson Katz speaking to elected BC officials and senior leaders that included police, military and violence against women service providers. More »