Community Safety Toolkit
We have developed a Community Safety Toolkit that builds on strengths and skills within Indigenous communities along the Highway of Tears and supports solutions for identifying risks and creating safety.
Community Safety Toolkit
The original Highway of Tears Community Safety Toolkit included fourteen resources to promote community safety and increase education and awareness in many areas, including violence against women, personal safety, addiction, and community violence. The Toolkit also included specific resources targeted at empowering men to stand up against violence.
Community safety training has occurred in several communities along the Highway of Tears. Based on the feedback we gathered from Indigenous attendees and trainers at community safety planning sessions, we have been revising the Community Safety Toolkit into a national resource.
Once completed, our revised National Community Safety Toolkit will be shared with Indigenous communities across northern BC in person, as well as nationally across Canada on our website called Our Spirit, which will be launched soon. Please stay tuned for more details.
This website’s purpose is to educate the public about our work. We connect with families of missing and murdered people along the Highway of Tears, participate in media events, and continue to attend and hold awareness events, memorial vigils, and ceremonies. We also participate in other work to end violence towards Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people across northern BC.
Development of the Community Safety Toolkit was made possible through a generous contribution from the Civil Forfeiture Office in partnership with the Victims Services and Crime Prevention Division of the Ministry of Justice.
A picture of all of the resources included in the Community Safety Toolkit.
Media
All media inquiries can be directed to Andrea Palmer, CSFS Director of Communications at apalmer@csfs.org.
