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The Centre for Family Equity, formerly known as the Single Mothers’ Alliance, addresses family poverty in BC through community-engaged research, policy recommendations, law reform, and support programs. Our intersectional equity approach considers how families experience systemic discrimination and socioeconomic inequality based on their identities. We work to create solutions that meet the real and evolving needs of families based on their lived experiences. Driven by our community-based organizing model and active member network, we determine our strategic priorities based on community engagement to create a BC where all families thrive. 

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We determine our strategic priorities based on community engagement to create a BC where all families thrive.

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BC can't afford to leave women workers behind.

The COVID-19 pandemic hit lone mother-led families hard and we are seeing the impacts now. The child poverty rate in lone parent-led families in BC has worsened with a whopping 12.6% increase (First Call, 2024). We call for a suite of proactive policies and programs that remove barriers and build bridges to the labour market to ensure lone mothers'  economic inclusion, end the cycle of family poverty and strengthen BC's economy now at a time of economic uncertainty.

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Listening Campaign 2025 Report Charts Strategic Direction for CFE

July 10, 2025

The results are in! CFE Listening Campaign 2025 gathers input from members to impact real change for families in poverty.  

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BC Family Benefit Bonus Cut July 1st: CFE and First Call come together to sound the alarm

July 08, 2025

The Province has cut the BC Family Benefit bonus July 1st, 2025. CFE and First Call have come together to sound the alarm and advocate for a permanent increase to the BC Family Benefit.

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Lone Mothers' Economic Inclusion peer leader delivers powerful testimony at $10aDay childcare press conference

June 24, 2025

This morning, Lone Mothers' Economic Inclusion initiative Metro Vancouver committee member Mariam Roya delivered powerful testimony on the impact of lack of access to $10aDay childcare on her family living below the poverty line in BC at a $10aDay press conference in Vancouver.

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