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Anti-domestic-abuse activists say they have seen an increase in so-called revenge porn or non-consensual sharing of intimate images during the pandemic, which is why Tracy Porteous welcomes B.C. legislation to crack down on the practice.
As executive director of Ending Violence B.C., Porteous is one of the activists consulting with Grace Lore, B.C.’s parliamentary secretary for gender equity, as Lore helps draft a law that could ensure abuse images are quickly removed from the internet.
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While unable to disclose its share of the money, the Kamloops Sexual Assault Counselling Centre Society said the funds will be used to hire additional staff for its domestic violence and sexual assault response team, enabling 24-hour access to its crisis support line and being able to accompany survivors of violence during hospital visits. The three-year, $10-million grant will help fill gaps in funding created when all funding to provincial sexual assault centres was cut nearly 20 years ago, according to a press release from EVABC. EVABC executive director Tracy Porteous said the society has been in talks with the provincial government for 18 years regarding the status of sexual assault response and the funding needed to provide services for survivors.
Faith Myers (left) and Samantha-Jo Dick of the Yeqox Nilin Justice Society stand outside the Williams Lake Courthouse. The society is one of 23 organizations receiving emergency sexual assault services funding grants through the Ending Violence Association of BC. (Rebecca Dyok photo) Nearly two decades after funding was cut to all BC Sexual Assault Centres, the Ending Violence Association of BC (EVA BC) hopes a new funding grant program it is administering will start to fill the gaps. Executive director Tracy Porteous said the B.C. Government agreed last March to provide $10-million to EVA BC to administer a three-year emergency sexual assault services grant program which will help organizations deliver community-based emergency sexual assault response services that are trauma-informed and culturally appropriate.
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