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

National Day of Remembrance and Action

“The moment we surrender our capacity to believe another world is possible is the moment it becomes true.” - Kai Cheng Thom

World AIDS Day

December 1st is World AIDS Day. Why should we as anti-violence activists care about the stigma that folks living with HIV or AIDS face?

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

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

Helping a Friend

Telling someone about violence, abuse, harassment, or coercion takes a tremendous amount of bravery. Most survivors never tell a helping professional about the violence they have experienced.

Recognizing Risk

By learning the signs of lethality in an abusive relationship, friends and family can help to keep women and children safe and prevent femicide.

Why Femicide Inquests are Important

Inquests provide an opportunity for a public examination of a death in the context of looking for system changes that could prevent similar such deaths in the future.

Understanding Violence, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterDecember 5, 2022sexual assault, prevention, taking action, support, skills, violence, understanding violence, femicide, faro, yukon, inquest, domestic homocide

We Remember Sang and Patrick

A year ago today, Saengduean Honchaiyaphum (Sang to her friends) and Patrick McCracken were murdered by her ex-husband in Faro, Yukon.

Understanding Violence, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterOctober 26, 2022sexual assault, prevention, taking action, support, skills, violence, understanding violence, femicide, faro, yukon

#WeNeedYouHere

Shining a spotlight on some incredible suicide prevention campaigns.

Connection, DWS Events, Education, Helping A Friend, Supporting Survivors, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterSeptember 13, 2022world suicide prevention day, suicide prevention, support, we matter, we need you here

Sexual Violence - How Can DWS Help?

May being Sexual Assault Prevention Month is a great time to let folks know about how DWS can help survivors and their supporters.

Education, Taking Action, Consent, Connection, DWS Events, Services, Supporting Survivors, Understanding Violence, Helping A Friend, Emergency ShelterDawson Women's ShelterMay 9, 2022sexual violence, prevention, take action, sexual violence prevention month, support

DWS Opening for Modified Support, Showers, and Laundry Services

Keeping the safety of the Dawson community - especially elders and chronically ill folks - in mind, DWS will be reopening drop-in services - supportive listening, laundry, showers and resource library– in a modified way.