Support Services for Women in BC

Find and Access Services for Women in BC

Battered Women’s Support Services - provides education, advocacy, and support services to assist all women in its aim to work towards the elimination of violence and to work from a feminist perspective that promotes equality for all women.

Victim Link BC - is a support program for victims of crime and trauma across BC and Yukon. This service is toll-free, confidential, and available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in different languages.

Delta Assist - free individual and group counselling for individuals 19 years of age and over, who have experienced or are experiencing violence/abuse in their intimate partner relationships.

Mosaic BC - provides free and confidential support for women experiencing or at risk of abuse or violence. They provide group or one-to-one counselling support, resources, and referrals. The Stopping the Violence counsellor provides a safe space for women to talk, get support, and feel safe. Support is available in English, French, Farsi, Vietnamese and Spanish.

Sources BC - offers a wide variety of counselling modalities, with a team of counsellors who are registered clinical counsellors with a master’s degree in counselling and psychology. They serve men, women, and youth living on their own.

Ending Violence BC - is a member organization based in Vancouver, BC. They support, train and advocate for anti-violence workers in close to 300 anti-violence programs across the province that respond to sexual and intimate partner violence, child abuse, and criminal harassment. To ensure the best outcomes for survivors and promote social change, they work with cross-sectoral partners and other stakeholders to enhance community capacity and address gender-based violence, harassment and hate. They believe that promoting visibility, inclusive programming, and tran-inclusive services is essential to the eradication of gender-based violence.

Family Services of Greater Vancouver - offers professional, compassionate counselling in Vancouver, Richmond, and New Westminster, BC. Their counsellors are professionally trained therapists with graduate degrees in clinical social work and psychology. Their trauma counselling programs serve women, people of all marginalized genders, children, youth, and families who are survivors of trauma, sexual abuse, and family violence. All of their programs are offered from trauma-informed, feminist, anti-oppressive lens.

YWCA - provides practical and emotional support for self-identifying women who are experiencing violence or abuse in an intimate relationship.

BC Society Transition Houses - envisions communities free from violence for all women, children and youth. Through training, resources, advocacy and research, the BC Society of Transition Houses supports anti-violence workers in British Columbia who deliver support services and programs for women, children and youth experiencing violence. Their members are on the front line of providing direct services and supports to women and their children who are seeking safety from violence and abuse. They work in Transition, Second and Third Stage Houses, Safe Homes and PEACE programs throughout BC.

DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society - the DIVERSEcity’s Stopping the Violence Counselling program uses trauma-informed therapeutic approaches to support self-identified women survivors of violence in their healing journey. They provide supportive counselling through both individualized services and group-based sessions to women of various cultural backgrounds who have experienced family violence, sexual assault or historical abuse, or are at risk of abuse. In addition to their counselling, DIVERSEcity’s Stopping the Violence Multicultural Outreach Program provides safe and protective support for self-identified women who have experienced intimate partner violence, through practical assistance and supports. This can include accompanying you to court appointments, learning various skills such as using public transit, and exploring information and referrals you need to create safety for you and your family. DIVERSEcity’s outreach workers support women’s abilities to identify their goals and to connect them to community resources.

Atira Women’s Resource Society - is a not-for-profit organization committed to the work of ending violence against women. Atira’s programs are accessible to anyone who identifies and lives full time as a woman and who experiences gendered violence and misogyny, including trans, two spirit and intersex women and or those who identify with a femme of centre non-binary gender. Atira recognizes the barriers and stigmatization faced by women who do not fit into society’s gender-binary system and the violence, poverty and discrimination they encounter as a result.

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