Community-Based Victim Services and Stopping the Violence Outreach Program
Victim Support Services
IWS’ Community-Based Victim Services Program provides support and advocacy for those who have been harmed by power-based crimes. A service which is free and confidential.
This service supports you in dealing with:
• gender-based violence
• power and control
• domestic violence
• intimate partner violence
• all forms of relationship violence
• technology-facilitated gender-based violence
• elder abuse
• sexual violence (child, youth, adult and historical)
This program provides you with:
• emotional and practical support
• general and justice-related information, including the legal system, court preparation and orientation
• support in completing Victim Impact Statements (VIS) and Crime Victim Assistance Program (CVAP) applications.
• referrals to other supportive community programs
• help in creating a Safety Plan that works for you and your situation
• suggestions of accommodation locations (outside of the Daajing Giids Courthouse) to provide your testimony with less impact of re-victimization.
♥The program’s priority is Safety and thereby works with you to overcome unsafe situations. The Victim Services Support Worker believes you know your situation best.
♥The mission is focused on empowering you to make your own decisions and to support you whether, or not, you choose to report to the RCMP.
Stopping the Violence (STV) Outreach Program
IWS’ STV Outreach program helps people, who are in or who are leaving an abusive relationship, to live in safety.
The STV Outreach Worker supports your right to make choices based on your own understanding of your options, experiences, needs, and goals, with respect for your individual situation.
♥The Program offers:
• Connection to on-island community services and resources in order to widen your safety net.
• To endeavour to deliver culturally relevant public education and raise awareness around violence prevention, the effects of violence on women and children, and provide direct service through supportive listening as well as practical supports.
• Help to create and follow through on the action steps needed in your safety plan with direct service through supportive listening and practical supports.
• Third party reporting.
• Transportation and accompaniment to medical, legal, and other service agencies.
• Liaison with Tlaa Juuh Ldaa Naay Transition House in Masset.
The STV Outreach Support Worker organizes and runs community anti-violence events {TBD} against Gender-Based Violence.
♥For information, or to make an appointment♥
call/text: (250) 893-7045
email: victimservices@islandswellness.com
⇒Should you require immediate support, you can contact the 24/7, province-wide (multilingual) Victim Link line at 1 (800) 563-0808
In case of emergency, please call the local RCMP at (250) 559-4421.
Program Coordinator and Support Worker
Tara Lee Rea
I was raised on 200 acres in a remote and isolated village, Kioshquabeconk (Coboconk) in Ontario on the Mississauga Lands and traditional territory covered by the Williams Treaties.
Living in the bush and surrounded by the wild, I grew in curiosity as the outdoors taught me stillness long enough to realize that I belong to something bigger than myself.
I moved to Haida Gwaii in 2023. I knew I was home! The person who had the job before me, as Victim Service/STV Outreach Worker, was Bonnie Olson. This was a challenge given her big heart and many years of service. I applaud the work she accomplished and was recognized for. She has made a huge impression on me. My own background in Community Services aligns with the objectives of my job now. We start by creating a space safe enough to be still and supported.
I believe anything that attunes us towards ourselves, our community, and our Mother Nature, are steps in the direction to making the world right.
Did I mention I have a horse ♥
