‘Urgent concern’: B.C. releases gender-based violence action plan
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British Columbia has announced a new three-year action plan that it says aims to end stigma around gender-based violence and ensure access to supports.
British Columbia has announced a new three-year action plan aimed at ending stigma around gender-based violence and ensuring access to support.
The plan includes building more housing for women and children escaping violence, expanding cell service to make travel safer, and adding 75 new sexual assault support programs — 22 specifically for Indigenous women.
It also includes establishing new free virtual counselling as well as new 24/7 crisis lines, new policing standards and stronger victim support services.
Finance Minister Katrine Conroy told a news conference Sunday that the federal government had also pledged $61.9 million over four years for the plan under a new Canada-British Columbia bilateral agreement, which was struck Friday.
“Gender-based violence is an urgent concern,” she said. “This is a systemic and deeply rooted issue that disproportionately impacts Indigenous women, racialized women, newcomers and gender diverse people.”
The plan highlights the needs of Indigenous women and girls that it says “are most impacted by gender-based violence.”
More than half of the new federal funding will be invested in Indigenous-led initiatives that will soon be announced, the province said in a news release Sunday.
Kelli Paddon, parliamentary secretary for gender equity, told the news conference that the province began consultations for the action plan in 2022, identified gaps and is now committed to filling them.
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