Pacific Immigrant Resources Society

Published purpose

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of Covid-19, through systemic change. Pacific Immigrant Resources Society will achieve this by developing and implementing community-based appraoches to address intersectional barriers to equality for diverse women, engage women and/or girls with lived experience to influence pandemic recovery responses, convene and strengthen the feminist movement to collaboratively advance gender equality, build relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to colloboarte across sectors to advance gender equality. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemtic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and support positive authority, vocies and decision-making to support women's equality. The project will conduct a needs assessment, pilot a women's childcare worker peer-mentioring program, and enhance sector collaboration for accessible childcare. Key parnters include the Coalition of Child Care Advocates of BC, the Westcoast Child Care Resource Centre, and Women's Economic Council of Canada.