Status of Women committee  Not that I am aware of, no, we weren't.

Status of Women committee  I think we have made some gains in changing attitudes. Certainly, since I was young there's no doubt there has been quite a bit of movement from my examples cited about Margaret Mitchell being laughed at in the House of Commons in the 1980s when she talked about domestic violence

Status of Women committee  Yes. Social media cuts two ways. On the one hand, there is all of the cybermisogyny that goes on; on the other hand, it's a way by which you can reach young people at relatively little cost. As we saw with the hashtag “been raped never reported”, people can express what's going o

Status of Women committee  The statistic I had wasn't specific to YWCA shelters. I believe it's from talking to women in shelters. Nine of ten women, while they're in shelters, don't intend to return to their previous home and spousal relationship.

Status of Women committee  No. Four out of ten who don't want to go back don't know where they will go. That's the gap in access to housing that needs to be filled somehow.

Status of Women committee  Right.

Status of Women committee  As I mentioned, it needs to be easier to find housing that's safe and affordable. In most places, it's the lack of stock; there is a lack of safe, affordable housing where they are. Other supports that have been really helpful include ongoing outreach post-leaving shelter. That

Status of Women committee  We would see it as a precursor to drawing up the national action plan. There would be evidence that would feed into what's needed in a national action plan. I think we've seen continuing violence across the country this year. It's clearly the highest need action area, and the mo

Status of Women committee  Absolutely. We would see it coordinating with national action on poverty and on housing and homelessness. We did a major research study that produced a paper, “Beyond Shelter“. Housing and homelessness for women, housing and poverty for women were key issues in violence against w

Status of Women committee  I spoke to a lot of gaps in the systems that have been created. To be clear, we're not starting from zero in terms of responses to violence against women in this country, so we would want a national action plan to incorporate everything that's existing, but the advantage it would

Status of Women committee  Absolutely.

Status of Women committee  Certainly there is the research we got from the “Saying Yes” report, the subtitle of which is “Effective Practices in Sheltering Women with Mental Health and Addiction Issues”. What we're hearing in some of the provinces—not all of them and not so much in the Prairies—is that she

Status of Women committee  Yes. I can send you the full report or the executive summary, whichever you like. Also, BC Society of Transition Houses has been doing research and training in this area for a while. There's really a strong appetite for training and a really a lack of funding to get it there.

Status of Women committee  Yes. It's training on dealing with those women and supporting them.

Status of Women committee  I am. Power of Being a Girl is one of our programs. It's an empowerment conference for young girls of, I think, mid-school years. We run it across the country during Week Without Violence. We do consider it a very successful practice for really empowering girls so they can lead i