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January 1 - December 31, 2025

Stopping the Violence Outreach Group

An empowering space for self-identifying women who have experienced violence. We run several drop-in workshops a month ranging from expressive arts, to yoga and grief walks. All workshops are based at...
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When Rights Regress, We Push Forward
March 2025

International Women's Day 2025

International Women’s Day is typically a time to celebrate progress. Instead, we’re witnessing hard-won rights being stripped away. At YWCA Metro Vancouver, we refuse to go backwards.

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November - December 2024

Close to Home

In 2024, our 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence campaign, “Close to Home,” used bus shelter ads to reveal the number of reported sexual assaults within a 10-block radius. The campaign called on the BC government to declare gender-based violence an epidemic.

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May 2023

My Concussion Story

When people think of concussion, they think sports. But violence by an intimate partner is the cause of at least 290,000 concussions among Canadian women and girls each year. That’s more than 7,000 for every 1 NHL concussion.

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December 2022 - March 2023

Hopeful Hair Wall

As protests against the Islamic Republic of Iran and their Morality Police erupted, we watched as young girls and women rose up and cut their hair in defiance. With our fellow protestors, we created a wall of hair that says, “WOMAN. LIFE. FREEDOM.” People from all walks of life cut their hair to complete the message.

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Walking a Path, Never Alone - Nadzin Degagne
Nov-Dec 2022

16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence and December 6

November 25 to December 10 marks the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence, an annual international campaign that calls for the prevention and elimination of violence against women and girls. 

 

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Keep Families Together
June 2022

Indigenous Child Welfare

One in five children in BC lives below the poverty line, and more than 9,000 children live in foster care, more than half of whom are Indigenous.

Join us in calling on our Government Officials to honour the key legislation that addresses systemic racism and the ongoing discrimination of Indigenous peoples.

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Rewrite Feminism
April 2022

Rewrite Feminism

Mainstream feminism hasn’t always been inclusive of Black, Indigenous and racialized people, or the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Rewrite Feminism marks our commitment to acknowledging the different identities, experiences and perspectives of women, Two-Spirit and gender diverse people.

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Reserved for Her
March 2022

Reserved for Her

We estimate that just over 10% of public monuments across Canada recognize women. To draw attention to this inequity, we’ve created Reserved for Her, a statue-less statue base to act as a literal platform for the local girls and women who are working to make history.

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YWCA Wall for Women
March 2021

YWCA Wall for Women

To break down the walls of violence, we painted a wall of hope.

The Wall for Women is a permanent gift to the community that depicts the strength of women and shines light on the “shadow pandemic” of intimate partner violence. 

 

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