ᐊᕐᓇᐃᑦ – ᐳᕆᑎᔅ ᑲᓚᒻᐱᐊ

ᓄᓇᖃᖅᑳᖅᓯᒪᔪᑦ ᑎᒥᖏᑦ

Aboriginal Women's Action Network Restorative Justice Policy (AWAN) [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Political organization that serves as an independent voice against injustice to Aboriginal women, and provides information and educational resources based on Aboriginal input in workshops on anti-violence and alternative forms of justice.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres (CASAC)

Yukon Aboriginal Women's Council [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

The Yukon Status of Women Council is an advocacy and awareness group for women's issues, both locally and nationally.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᔫᑳᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Women's Directorate

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ᐋᓐᓂᐊᖃᕐᓇᙱᑦᑐᓕᕆᓂᖅ ᐃᓅᓯᓕᕆᕐᓗ

"Start of Something Powerful": Strategizing for Safer Communities for BC Aboriginal Women, The [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Report on this two-day forum which brought together Aboriginal women concerned with violence against women with provincial health and anti-violence organizations and policy makers.

ᓇᕿᑦ: BC Association of Specialized Victim Assistance and Counselling Programs

Aboriginal Health [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

The Aboriginal Health Program provides both on-site and outreach services to improve the health of Aboriginal women and their families

ᓇᕿᑦ: British Columbia Women's Hospital and Health Centre

Aboriginal Health Program [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

The Aboriginal Health Program is a women's provincial program that provides health services to improve the health of aboriginal women.

ᓇᕿᑦ: BC Women's Hospital and Health Centre Foundation

Aboriginal Mothers Centre Society [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Provides support programs, food programs, essential skills and training through social enterprise developments.

Aboriginal Women's Outreach Program [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Atira Women's Resource Society is a not-for-profit organization committed to the work of ending violence against women through providing direct service, as well as working to increase awareness of and education around the scope and impact on our communities of men's violence against women and children.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Atira Women's Resource Society

Aboriginal Women's Program [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Battered Women's Support Services uses traditional healing practices and offers culturally appropriate support services and programs run by Aboriginal women for Aboriginal women.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Battered Women's Support Services

Aboriginal Women’s Partnership [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

To provide the necessary resources, contacts and support to younger women and girls in a structured format.

ᓇᕿᑦ: The Minerva Foundation

Around the Kitchen Table (PDF) [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

This 92-page document is a training tool designed for Aboriginal Elders and natural helpers on HIV/AIDS and aims to ensure that Aboriginal women will receive education, support and information about HIV/AIDS.

ᓇᕿᑦ: BC Centre for Disease Control

Circle of Life [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

This program is designed to empower all First Nations women within childbearing years to make healthier lifestyle choices and decrease the number of alcohol- and/or drug-affected births in the community.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Kermode Friendship Society

Drop–in Center [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

The Centre is a safe space where women can access services that address their immediate needs. It provides laundry facilities, washrooms and showers, telephone, personal hygiene supplies, among others.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Downtown Eastside Women's Centre

First Nations Breast Cancer Society [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Non-profit organization that offers breast cancer education and support to First Nations women in the province of British Columbia.

Helping Spirit Lodge Society [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Helping Spirit Lodge Society is dedicated to assisting in the alleviation of family violence in the Aboriginal communities.

ISKWEW Girls Strengthening Program (PDF) [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Supporting young Iskwew’s between the ages of 12 & 18 with knowledge & awareness to make decisions that will enhance, create and sustain the life they want.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Spirit of the Children Society

Okanagan Nation Family Intervention and Services Society [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

This organization provides basic food and shelter, support, information and referral for Aboriginal and Métis women and children who are fleeing domestic violence or are in crises.

Pacific Association of First Nations Women [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Provides a holistic social, spiritual, psychological, and educational support network for First Nations women.

Program Activities and Initiatives (see First Nations Initiative) [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Aims to enrich the lives of First Nations girls through one-to-one friendships that offer them support, guidance, and exposure to positive life choices and role models within their own culture.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland

Sheway [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Sheway is a partnership initiative in the Vancouver area that provides comprehensive health and social services to women who are either pregnant or parenting children under 18 months old, and who are experiencing substance use issues.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Vancouver Native Health Society

Spirit Bear Center Society [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

The Centre exists to provide programs that encourage and assist young aboriginal women to build confidence, self esteem and a spirit of independence.

Upper Island Women of Native Ancestry [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Their goal is to be a channel of communication between the Upper Island Women of Native Ancestry and other native women's organizations

Women's Healthy Living Secretariat [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Provides subject matter expertise, critical analysis and advice to the Ministry of Health of British Columbia on issues affecting the health of women.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᐳᑎᓯᔅ ᑲᓚᒻᐱᐊᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Health Services

Young Wolves Lodge [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

The Young Wolves Lodge is a non-judgmental place, where youth can come to be supported in their efforts to make positive changes for themselves and their children.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Urban Native Youth Association

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ᐃᖅᑲᖅᑐᐃᕕᓕᕆᓂᖅ ᐊᕐᓇᐃᓪᓗ ᐱᔪᓐᓇᐅᑎᖏᑦ

Our Sacred Strength – Talking Circles Among Aboriginal Women (PDF) [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Our Sacred Strength captures the voices of aboriginal women across British Columbia, illuminating the many common concerns and challenges aboriginal women share, and the many different journeys each woman and each nation has followed in their pursuit to build a better future for their children.

ᓇᕿᑦ: BC Treaty Commission

Urban Aboriginal Women in British Columbia and the Impacts of the Matrimonial Real Property Regime [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

British Columbia case study that looks at the affects of relationship breakdown on urban Aboriginal women and children.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)

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ᐅᖃᐅᓯᓕᕆᓂᖅ, ᓯᕗᓕᓂᙶᖅᑐᓕᕆᓂᖅ ᐊᒻᒪ ᐃᓕᖅᑯᓯᓕᕆᓂᖅ

First Nations Women – First Nations House of Learning – Xwi7xwa Library [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Provides information on subjects such as law, health associations, writers, biography and statistics for Aboriginal women.

ᓇᕿᑦ: The University of British Columbia Library

Story of the Coast Salish Knitters, The (PDF) [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

For nearly a century the Coast Salish women of southern Vancouver Island have produced these distinctlively patterened, hand-knit sweaters.

ᓇᕿᑦ: UVic Communications – University of Victoria

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ᐊᕐᓇᐃᑦ ᐱᒃᑲᐃᑦ

Grant, Dorothy [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Dorothy Grant is the recipient of the Business and Commerce Award.

Pierre, Sophie – Public Service [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Sophie Pierre is the recipient of the Public Service Award from the National Aboriginal Acheivement Award.

ᓇᕿᑦ: ᑲᓇᑕᐅᑉ ᒐᕙᒪᖓ; Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC)

Watts, Dolly: Woman Warrior [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

Biography of Dolly Watts, Business and Commerce award recipient.

ᓇᕿᑦ: First Nations Drum

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ᐊᑐᐊᒐᖅ, ᖃᐅᔨᓴᕐᓂᖅ ᐊᒻᒪᓗ ᓈᓴᐅᑎᓕᕆᓂᒃᑰᕐᓂᑦ

B.C. Aboriginal Women on a Fraser River Journey [ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᑕᑯᒃᓴᐅᓗᑎᒃ / ᐃᓘᓐᓇᑎᒃ ᐃᔨᕐᓗᒍ]

The Aboriginal Women's Action Network (AWAN), in coalition with other Aboriginal women from Vancouver-based anti-violence agencies, have come together to conduct a participatory action research project on the issue of violence against Aboriginal women.

ᓇᕿᑦ: Vancouver Rape Relief and Women's Shelter

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