Access to resources

Examples of how access to resources limit or enable health concerns for people of different genders

• Surrey women mention need for accessible, low-cost, trauma-informed, casual, community centered mental health services and disorder treatment in Surrey
• Indigenous women are overrepresented in toxic drug deaths in the Fraser Health Region
• Drug related deaths are highest amongst women 19-29 and men 30-39. Fatal overdoses are similar across these two genders
• Young South Asian men are disproportionately likely to die from drug overdoses in Fraser Health Region
• DIVERSEcity’s Survivor-Centered Systems of Care Project trains racialized and newcomer women to lead improvements to gender-based violence support
• DIVERSEcity provides one-on-one trauma-informed support for women survivors of violence through the Stopping the Violence Counselling Program
• Sexual Assault Response Coordination Program available for racialized and newcomer women who are survivors of sexual assault.
• Multicultural Victims Services Outreach provides support for women who are victims of intimate partner violence
• The Afro-Canadian Positive Network of BC provides peer support, mental health and addiction services for HIV+ women, and anti-racism data collection.
• Single mothers must choose between period products and food for their children.
• Indigenous girls, women, and Two-Spirit people call for a healing lodge for community members in crisis