Black Youth Empowerment presents a Pro D-Day Workshop made by Black youth for school staff and service providers: Listening to Black Students & Creating Safer-Braver Spaces in Schools. Join us on Zoom to learn about the impact of race-based issues on Black Students and ways staff can intervene and create safer and braver spaces in…
Join Us for Consent ABCs, A National Consent Awareness Week Webinar As part of the Consent Awareness National Week, Project Respect, Victoria Sexual Assault Centre’s prevention education program, is excited to be hosting an online event for parents and caregivers of young children on how consent can be taught and modeled in an age appropriate…
With the help of our lovely Rhizome youth social action team, we have created a resource map for various services and supports throughout Southern Vancouver Island! Every resource on the map has a brief description, location, and contact information! Our map includes: Sexual Health ClinicsHealth ClinicsYouth Drop In ProgramsCounselling ServicesSupport Services & Programs Please visit…
After a 2 year hiatus, Project Respect’s Youth Social Action Camp made its return in May! After two years of a global pandemic, the emphasis was community and resilience – and the connections formed this weekend were more important than ever. Camp Pringle hosted us this year in Showe’luqun, known colonially as Shawnigan Lake. The…
We are sad to share that Monica has passed away, but the legacy of her amazing work carries on and continues to make an impact on Project Respect.
An individual will have a lot of different relationships in their lives, from friends, family, partner to work colleagues. All your relationships will look very differently. While there is no such thing as a perfect relationship, there are healthy relationships. But even healthy relationships do not look the same for everyone since every person has…
If you have hurt someone in your life, you know that it can be a difficult to admit that you have caused injury to another person. Often individuals will instead get angry or defensive as you try to rationalize your own behaviour or are confused about the situation, but this can cause even more harm….
It takes a lot of mental and physical energy when you or someone you know has had a recent trauma or harmful event has happened to you. Burnout, or extreme exhaustion, can lead to changes in appetite and sleep, stomachaches, headaches, irritability, and frequent illness. The following are some types to help you prevent and…
A pod is a concept developed by disability activist Mia Mingus as a part of creating a self-care community. A pod is a group of people who you can go to if violence, harm, or abuse has happened to you, if you caused harm, or if you have witnessed harm. A person can have multiple…
When a trauma occurs in a person’s life, it is often held in the body, as Dr. Bessel Van Der Kolk writes in his book, The Body Keeps the Score. Trauma actually rewires the brain that can causes constant states of stress or numbness, which lead to a host of different physical problems, such as…
What is Transformative Justice? Transformative justice is an approach where individuals, groups, and organizations can work through responses to conflicts, abuses, harms, and violence without using traditional systems, like the police or the court system. The thought around transformative justice is that when a harm or crime has been done, this has caused a violation…
Do you ever feel like there is no character in movies, TV shows, comics, or books who you can relate to? That the media’s or arts’ representation of the spectrum of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, (dis)ability, class, and income does not do justice to the complications of life, or may be too much of a…