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When Survivors Speak, We Must Listen. Power, Accountability, and the Truth Behind the Epstein Files
As an organization dedicated to supporting survivors and challenging the systems that enable sexual violence, we believe cultural moments like this require clarity and unwavering solidarity. We...
Budget 2025: What It Means for Gender Equity and Survivor Services
Over the past six months, our community - survivors, supporters, service providers, feminist organizations, and advocates came together in powerful ways to stop the proposed 80% cuts to Women and...
Honoring Truth: A Reflection on the First Thanksgiving
By Tammy Desjardins, Indigenous Program Coordinator and Counsellor When many people speak of the “First Thanksgiving,” they picture a peaceful meal — settlers and Indigenous peoples sharing food in...
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
“We may not achieve reconciliation within my lifetime, or within the lifetime of my children, but we will be able to achieve it if we all commit to working towards it properly. Part of that commitment is that every year we will stand up together and we will say ‘never again.”
Building Together: An Update on Salal’s New Sexual Assault Clinic
This past May, we invited our community to be part of this historic project with an ambitious goal: raising $24,500 to purchase an accessible exam table, a forensic evidence freezer and the final...
Holding Space for All Survivors: Addressing Harm Perpetuated by Women
In the anti-violence sector, we often emphasize harm caused by men. And necessarily so, since it shapes our world in profound and violent ways. However, survivors accessing Salal’s support services...
The Safety Net Is Tearing — Funders Must Act Now
To our funders (governments, foundations, philanthropists, labour unions, and businesses), We are nonprofit leaders from across British Columbia, writing with growing concern for the future of our...
Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre Calls on the BC Government to Declare Gender-Based Violence an Epidemic
July 15th, 2025 Dear Premier Eby, Today we at Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre are writing to urge the provincial government to adopt the recommendations outlined in Dr. Kim Stanton’s report, “...
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