Ending Violence Blog
Via our award winning blog Battered Women’s Support Services provides education and advocacy as we work towards the elimination of violence.
Leaving Without Dying: Why Safety Must Continue After Separation
Leaving an abusive partner can interrupt one form of control and provoke another. Survivors need more than advice to leave. They need safety planning, legal support, housing, income and people who will stay with them through what comes next. The question is often put...
BWSS statement on the white nationalist gathering on Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc land
September 27, 2026 Children were taken from their families and sent to the Kamloops Indian Residential School. Some never came home and for the families who still seek answers, this is not a slogan or a political argument, it is the life of a child they loved. Today,...
Frontline organizations bring intimate partner violence directly to municipal leaders at UBCM
VANCOUVER, B.C. Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS) is bringing together approximately 50 frontline and community organizations from every region of British Columbia at the Union of BC Municipalities Convention today for a roundtable focused on what meaningful...
Canada Is Building Resilience. Who Will Absorb the Shock?
Canada is in a different economic and political moment, and I have been thinking a lot about what it means for women. In his recent address to Canadians, Prime Minister Mark Carney spoke about the breakdown of trade negotiations with the United States and the need for...
The Downplay Effect: What B.C.’s Budget 2027 Consultation Tells Us About Intimate Partner Violence
Intimate partner violence doesn’t just escalate. It is downplayed first. At Battered Women’s Support Services, the Downplay Effect describes what happens when coercive control, patterns of abuse and escalating danger are minimized before they are...
Ontario woman awarded $400,000 over husband’s 54 year abuse in Tort of Intimate Partner Violence
The legal community is already debating whether the new tort of intimate partner violence will make family law proceedings longer, more complex and more contentious. From where we stand, that debate begins in the wrong place. For more than 30 years, BWSS has provided...
What Women Taught Us During the FIFA World Cup 2026
What Women Taught Us During the FIFA World Cup 2026 Specialized intimate partner violence response is public safety. While millions celebrated the FIFA World Cup in Canada, here in Vancouver hundreds of women reached out to Battered Women's Support Services seeking...
Canada’s National Action Plan on Gender-based Violence
Canada's National Action Plan on Gender-based Violence The Next Phase Must Reach the Frontline $607.4M committed by the Government of Canada over four years to continue implementation of the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence There is much to welcome in...
Firearms, Intimate Partner Violence, and What This New Statistics Canada Report Means for Women’s Safety
Firearms, Intimate Partner Violence, and What This New Statistics Canada Report Means for Women's Safety Rates of gun-related intimate partner violence rising: StatsCan Tara Carman · CBC News On July 8, 2026, Statistics Canada released Firearms and Intimate Partner...
BWSS Public Legal Education Series
BWSS Public Legal Education Series Practical legal information for survivors of intimate partner violence and those who support them. The BWSS Public Legal Education Series is a free monthly webinar series designed to help survivors, community support workers, legal...
Statement on the Conviction in the Femicide of Tatjana Stefanski
Photo curtesy of Justice for Tatjana Facebook Today, a B.C. Supreme Court jury found Vitali Stefanski guilty of second-degree murder in the killing of Tatjana Stefanski. The verdict follows a five-week trial in Kamloops and marks an important moment of accountability...
Rooted in Community. Contributing Nationally.
Battered Women's Support Services (BWSS) is proud to be among 34 organizations selected to receive a National Capacity Building Grant administered by the Canadian Women's Foundation and funded by Women and Gender Equality Canada (WAGE) through a process informed by...