WAVAW is excited to share that we will be working on a 3 year systemic change project with funding from Status of Survivor Canada and working with the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General Division of Victim Services and Crime Prevention.

The project aims to create systemic change and answer the question, “How do we enhance survivor’s confidence in the Criminal Justice system”?

The first year of the project, research will be conducted on the lived experiences of survivors accessing justice in BC. In order to make the research as comprehensive as possible, it will include data and information from survivor’s whose cases were reported, not reported, prosecuted, not prosecuted and where convictions were guilty or not guilty. In addition, both qualitative and quantitative data will be collected. The quantitative data will be collected through a file review of all of WAVAW’s Victim Services program case files that were closed from 2013 to 2016. The quantitative data will be collected through Participatory Action Research interviews conducted with survivors from across BC. This comprehensive data will be coded and themed and will be used as a starting point to interview Justice System Personnel. These interviews, along with surveys completed by Victim Service Workers from around the Province will be paired with focus groups with particular survivor populations to culminate in a report that will later be used to guide the process of creating an Action Plan with the Stakeholder.

Stay tuned to our blog to follow us along on this journey.