Publications
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Violence Against Women and Their Children in BC: 33 Years of Recommendations
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EVA BC's new report, Violence Against Women and Their Children in BC: 33 Years of Recommendations, reviews studies and reports issued throughout the last 33 years and delivers a compilation of a number of critical recommendations that describe what needs to be done to increase women’s and children’s safety in BC.
Developing Goals and Objectives: A Process Exercise for Violence Against Women Coordination Initiatives
This Four Step process will guide a group to develop goals and attainable objectives that will
address safety and accountability within the local response to violence against women and
children.
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EVA BC Newsletter, Winter 2011
Workplace Violence in Anti-Violence Programs: Strategies to Increase Worker Safety (Consultation Draft February 2012)
This Consultation Draft issued in February 2012 addresses issues and concerns raised by workers in the field and offers best practices guidelines to increase safety in the workplaces of anti-violence programs, as well as samples of policies and procedures.
We are asking readers to provide us with feedback that may be incorporated into the final version to ensure the guide is as comprehensive and accurate as possible. A brief feedback questionnaire will be sent out as a follow-up to the guide's release.
Privacy Provisions Which Impact Services Delivered By Community Based Anti-Violence Programs
EVA E-News July 2011
This issue of EVA E-News featured the launch of the "Be More Than a Bystander" initiative that EVA BC rolled out in partnership with the BC Lions Football Club. Other articles included coverage of the March 2011 regional gathering held in Terrace, BC called "Sharing, Gathering, Honouring: Increasing Safety for Aboriginal Women, Youth and Communities", updates related to non-status immigrant women in Canada and info on the Haida Gwaii Community Coordination for Women's Safety harm reduction project "You Can't Hurry Love.
To view the July 2011 edition of EVA E-News, click here »
High Risk Cases of Violence Against Women in Relationships: Collaborative Safety Planning
This CCWS document is designed as an aid for workers, and focuses on the most common risk factors for lethality in domestic violence cases in order to identify risk and develop concrete safety plans for women and their children. It also builds understanding of the importance of working with other community agencies such as police, Children and Family Services, Crown Counsel, and First Nations resources, to name a few.