Legal workshops for women in need of legal information on their current Family Law cases

Battered Women’s Support Services is organizing Legal Advocacy Workshops from May to July, 2014.

Workshops will be held THURSDAYS, 12:30 PM TO 2:30 PM

Location: Battered Women’s Support Services in Vancouver (for confidentiality purposes please call us to obtain the address)

In Attendance: The Legal Advocate, a volunteer lawyer (may be male) and women who need support with their current legal cases.

Format of Workshops: These workshops are designed for women who are in need of information about Family Law. Lawyers with experience on the topic will facilitate all workshops. Women may bring forms or relevant paperwork to the workshop for self reference.

What is provided?
• Legal information, strategies for specific legal issues/topics
• Resources
• Coffee/tea

Maximum 20 women can register per workshop.Please RSVP to legaladvocacy@bwss.org.

For registration and information call the Intake Line 604.687.1867.

BWSS-Legal-Advocacy-poster-2014_FYou can download the poster here.

Our ongoing support for women includes compiling lists of external legal resources, publications and links to external legal services. To access our Legal Resources, please visit here.

Last year, Battered Women’s Support Services responded to over 10,000 crisis calls from women and girls to get help and end violence. We could not provide this essential support without your contribution.

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