Two earners in a family of four must each make at least $18 an hour to afford basic rent, food, childcare and transportation in metro Vancouver, according to a report by CCPA.
New Westminister...
Family, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
Support Worker Central is an online database designed to match individuals, families and agencies with support workers in their communities.
Disability, Family, family support, people with disabilities, support workers, British Columbia
Housing Listings is a resource directory put together by BC Housing that provides maps and addresses of subsidized housing developments for families, seniors and people with disabilities across the...
Disability, Family, Housing, housing listings, Seniors and Elders, social housing, subsidized housing, British Columbia
Clicklaw is a website aimed at enhancing access to justice in British Columbia. It features legal information and education, but it is not a site of laws. Instead, Clicklaw features legal information...
Aboriginal and First Nations, Debt and Consumer Law, Disability, Family, Legal Aid, Legal Research, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
A new study released by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has found that today's poor and middle class families in BC are in worse financial shape than their parents’ generation. The study...
Family, Poverty Research, British Columbia
Kelowna Community Resources is a searchable online database of community resources from across the central Okanagan.
Aboriginal and First Nations, Children and Youth, Disability, Education, Ethnicity and Race, Family, Foodbanks and Food, Health, Homelessness, Housing, Immigrants and Refugees, Legal Aid, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Seniors and Elders, Tenants' Rights, Unemployment, Violence, Welfare, Women, Workers' Rights, British Columbia
PIVOT Legal Society has released a report, Broken Promises: Parents Speak out About B.C.’s Child Welfare System (in PDF), that finds children are all too often apprehended as the first form of...
Children and Youth, Family, British Columbia
Code Blue for Child Care, a national campaign to protect child care is accusing the Conservative government of abandoning child care. Code Blue has issued Harper and his government an "F" in three...
Children and Youth, Family, Organizing, British Columbia, All of Canada
The latest issue of the newsletter of the B.C. Institute Against Family Violence focuses on the connection between family violence and homelessness from a variety of communities - women, youth,...
Family, Homelessness, Violence, British Columbia
The BC/Yukon Society of Transition Houses and the BC Association of Specialized Victims Services and Counseling Programs have a Family Law Resource Manual for Community Based Advocates Assisting...
Family, Legal Research, Violence, Women, British Columbia, Yukon
"My kids are supposed to grow up healthy yet I can't even afford to buy them food." A report by the Community Nutritionists Council of BC and Dietitians of Canada - BC Region, a low income family...
Family, Foodbanks and Food, British Columbia
The Social Planning and Research Council of BC has produced a report on child and family poverty in BC for the B.C. Federation of Labour. The report A Path to Poverty: A Review of Child and Family...
Children and Youth, Family, Poverty Research, British Columbia
http://www.qp.gov.bc.ca/dispute/famrules.htm - this webpage provides a list of the rules governing Family Court in British Columbia.
Family, British Columbia
