Other Rural Women's
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Community Coordination for Women's Safety (CCWS) helps communities develop new models of coordination on violence against women. CCWS also helps communities enhance existing models of coordination on violence against women. The menu of options for outreach activities that the project's regional coordinators will offer will vary according to requests from communities.

CCWS is managed in part by the
BC Association of Specialized Victim Assistance and Counselling Programs

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The Women North Network developed from a community development and research project facilitated by Northern FIRE: The Centre for Women's Health Research at the University of Northern British Columbia and funded by Status of Women Canada. The purpose of the project is to meet with women and women's organizations in northern British Columbia to talk about women's health and wellness and to establish a network that will enable women to develop joint research, action, and policy initiatives in northern, rural and remote communities.

Christina McLennan, Volunteer Coordinator
Email: cndmclennan@bcgroup.net

Dawn Hemingway, Faculty Consultant
Email: northfire@unbc.ca

The Safer Futures project advocates for an integrated approach to planning for safer communities, one that addresses the physical, social, and institutional factors that contribute to or detract from, the personal safety of women at the local level.

In concrete terms, what the project is asking local government to do is to work in partnership with women-serving organisations to plan and organise their communities -- physically, socially, institutionally -- in ways that create safer and healthier communities for women, and ultimately for all citizens.