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The Violence Against Minority Women Project
The Violence Against Minority Women Project is a three year project directed towards helping women who speak languages other than English understand how Canadian law defines domestic violence. The project also aims to increase knowledge about the negative impacts of violence against women within nine ethnocultural communities.
Many immigrant women and men may not understand or speak English fluently and may be unfamiliar with their rights in Canada or how law enforcement works in this country. To address this concern the Violence Against Minority Women Project, in partnership with other community service organizations, aims to reach isolated immigrant women in BC by broadcasting radio and TV programs in their own language that reach into the family home. This project aims to make public the voices of immigrant professionals who serve non-English-speaking residents of BC.
In 2010-11 four television programs and eleven radio broadcasts will be produced in Russian, Korean, Vietnamese, Mandarin and Spanish. Volunteers from the Russian, Korean, Vietnamese,Chinese and Spanish-speaking communities who have professional backgrounds in law, law enforcement, settlement work, social work, counselling, health care and other professions, will discuss how they help victims of abuse in BC. The goal of the project is to increase knowledge within these three communities as to where people who witness abuse or women who experience abuse can obtain legal help and counselling support in their own language as well as in English.
During 2010-11 we will:
- develop an advisory committee of front-line workers and legal professionals who serve immigrant women
- produce and broadcast four TV programs in Korean and Russian on domestic violence topics
- broadcast eleven radio programs in Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese and Mandarin on domestic violence topics
- provide four training workshops to front-line workers who support immigrant women, teaching them assessment skills and safety planning strategies
- evaluate the usefulness of all the radio and TV programs by establishing focus groups in the target communities
VAMW Radio Productions
VAMW Television Productions
VAMW Training Workshops
For more information please contact Julia Naim Schriver, Project Co-ordinator at 604-331-5421 or e-mail julians@publiclegaled.ca.ca. This project is made possible by funding from The Law Foundation of British Columbia.
  
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