When news broke in The Tyee this month of women having to leave a BC transition house into homelessness, the story on the surface appeared to be about an unwieldy transition house treating people unfairly.
But community social services know …
There’s nothing like a plot twist to get people’s attention, and this 50-second video featuring former Canucks player Trevor Linden certainly does that.
The video revealing the stunning statistics on intimate partner violence and brain injury was released today by …
Board Voice continues to advocate here in BC on the little-known issue of intimate partner violence and brain injury, a life-changing tragedy that affects as many as 90 per cent of women who have experienced intimate partner violence. It’s so …
The international awareness campaign 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence is Nov. 25 through Dec. 10, and we’re sharing this CTV story on The Cridge Centre for the Family’s leading work to bring attention and services to the women …
A unique care clinic in Surrey has partnered with BC researchers to start gathering data on the rate of brain injury among victims of intimate partner violence.
The Embrace Clinic is part of the Fraser Health Authority’s forensic nursing service. …
Board Voice Executive Director Jody Paterson spotted a series of eight maps in the latest BC Centre for Disease Control report on the illicit toxic drug crisis and was so alarmed at the story they were telling that she made …
A cautionary and very expensive tale for any non-profit board recently played out in BC Supreme Court, where the board of Literacy Alberni Society failed to convince the court that they were wrongly found “vicariously libel” in a defamation judgment levelled against …
The federal government and the federal Conservative Party have now announced their respective cabinet and shadow cabinet.
Board Voice will be reaching out to the leaders and Opposition critics of the key social ministries with letters of introduction – we …
We’ve been following Canadian Senator Ratna Omidvar’s efforts to change Income Tax Act legislation around requirements for charities that have ended up restricting their ability to give funding to non-charities whose work they support. The bill is now in third …
