DWS Community Response

Dawson Women’s Shelter wants to acknowledge that our community has been hurting and on high alert due to multiple physical and sexual assaults this past week.

Education, Taking Action, Understanding Violence, 24 Hour Support Line, Connection, Helping A Friend, Services, Supporting SurvivorsDawson Women's ShelterAugust 21, 2024community response, gendered violence, support, support survivors, supporting survivors, violence prevention, community, assaultComment

Understanding Stalking

Stalking is pattern of behavior directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear for the person’s safety or the safety of others; or suffer substantial emotional distress.

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Stalking Awareness Month

We’re more likely to be able to support a friend who’s being stalked if we learn to recognize what stalking looks like and also learn to challenge the myths we’re taught about stalking.

Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterJanuary 3, 2024stalking, criminal harassment, januray, ambivalently yours, julie lalonde, outside of the shadows, stalking awareness month, that's not cool, bystander interventionComment

Ableism and Gender-Based Violence

Resources, links, and videos for folks to unlearn ableism and become better allies to disabled folks.

Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterDecember 2, 2023abelism, oppression, disability, justice, invisible disability, curb-cut effect, diability, disabled, 16 Days of ActivismComment

Understanding Gender-Based Violence

From November 25 to December 10 we call on everyone to take action to end gender-based violence. Why do we need 16 Days?

Connection, DWS Events, Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterNovember 29, 2023taking action, male allies, 16 days, gender based violence, julie lalonde, kira-lynn ferderber, danielle boissoneau, stalking, kinship, creative action, fatphobia

16 Days of Activism - Community Workshops

Learn the warning signs of abuse and how to help a friend.

Education, Connection, DWS Events, Helping A Friend, Supporting Survivors, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterNovember 20, 202316 Days of Activism, gendered violence, gender-based violence, learning, workshop, education, skills, supporting survivors, preventionComment

Transgender Awareness Week 2023

November 13-19 is Transgender Awareness Week

Connection, Taking Action, Understanding Violence, EducationDawson Women's ShelterNovember 16, 2023taking action, 16 days, tdor, trans day of remembrance, LGBT, lgbqt2sai+, LGBQT, queer, two spirit, transgender awareness week, intersex, yukon, queer yukon, gender

Intersex Awareness Day - October 26th

Intersex is an umbrella term for differences in sex traits or reproductive anatomy. Intersex people are born with these differences or develop them in childhood. There are many possible differences in genitalia, hormones, internal anatomy, or chromosomes, compared to the usual two ways that human bodies develop.

Education, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterOctober 26, 2023alphabet soup, lgbqt, queer, trans, gender, lgbqt2sai+, two spirit, intersex, intersex awareness day, ally, allies, allyship, take actionComment

World Suicide Prevention Day - September 10

How you can recognize that a friend might be at risk of suicide, quick ways you can help, and lots of resources for supporters and folks who are struggling.

Connection, DWS Events, Helping A Friend, Supporting Survivors, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterSeptember 10, 2023suicide prevention, you are loved, we need you here

Disability Pride Month

Resources, links, and videos for folks to unlearn ableism and become better allies to disabled folks.

Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterJuly 25, 2023abelism, oppression, disability, justice, invisible disability, curb-cut effect, diability, disabled, pride monthComment

Queer Quotes

“You belong in this world.” - Connie Merasty

Education, Connection, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterJune 22, 2023alphabet soup, lgbqt, queer, trans, gender, lgbqt2sai+, two spirit, asl, queer yukon, transgender, pride, pride monthComment

Bystander Intervention

We know that feeling in our stomach when something is wrong, but very rarely are we taught the skills to interrupt behaviour that can lead to sexual assault

False Reporting

There is a giant chasm between false reporting and police choosing not to lay a charge. Not learning the difference is harmful.

Raise the Bar: Chats with Viki

Viki from Diamond Tooth Gerties and Crickett from DWS chat about how bartenders and servers can practice skills to interrupt sexual violence. Guest appearance by Captain Porkchop!

Sexual Violence - How Can DWS Help

What resources do you know in Dawson City or all of Yukon for either for survivors of sexual violence or who help to prevent sexual violence?

Education, Taking Action, Consent, Connection, DWS Events, Services, Supporting Survivors, Understanding Violence, Helping A Friend, Emergency ShelterDawson Women's ShelterMay 9, 2023sexual violence, prevention, take action, sexual violence prevention month, support, may, resources

What is Sexual Violence?

Sexual violence is a broad term that describes any violence, physical or psychological, carried out through sexual means or by targeting sexuality.

Education, Consent, Supporting Survivors, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterMay 8, 2023SVPM, resources, sexual violence, prevention, May, Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres, OCRCC, reproductive coertion, draw the line

Red Dress Day

“People are confronted with the violence, both the violence that women are experiencing but also the power of and presence of Indigenous women.” - Jaime Black, creator of the REDress Project

DWS Events, Taking Action, Supporting Survivors, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterMay 5, 2023sis, sisters in spirit, dawson city, mmiw, mmiwg, mmiwg2s, missing and murdered indigenous women

Cloth Period Pad Making Workshop

Learn how to hand sew reusable cloth pads.

Education, Taking Action, Drop In, DWS EventsDawson Women's ShelterFebruary 7, 2023empowerment, strength, celebrate, period, period poverty, menstrual, menstrate, pads, workshop, making, connection, stigma, health Comment

Stalking Awareness Month

We’re more likely to be able to support a friend who’s being stalked if we learn to recognize what stalking looks like and also learn to challenge the myths we’re taught about stalking.

Education, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterJanuary 23, 2023stalking, criminal harassment, januray, ambivalently yours, julie lalonde, outside of the shadows, stalking awareness month, that's not cool, bystander interventionComment

Drug Users Deserve Dignity Not Death

Dr. Daniel Sumrok challenge us to instead of thinking about ‘addictions’ think about “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking” because “ritualized compulsive comfort-seeking (what traditionalists call addiction) is a normal response to the adversity experienced in childhood, just like bleeding is a normal response to being stabbed.”

Drop In, Connection, Services, Supporting Survivors, 24 Hour Support Line, Taking Action, Understanding ViolenceDawson Women's ShelterJanuary 19, 2023drop in, services, support, support survivors, opioid, crisis, catastrophe, yukon, health crisis, epidemic, addictions

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