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What kind of physical activities does your family enjoy? Are there activities that you think would be fun/beneficial but have yet to try? The Centre for Family Equity is recruiting parents and caregivers impacted by low income for our Active BC Kids community engagement. 

Today, Legal Aid BC released a What We Heard report sharing the findings of an intensive community engagement process carried out in collaboration with the Centre for Family Equity.

Today, the provincial government released its new 2024 Poverty Reduction Strategy including ten-year poverty reduction targets and focused action areas for poverty reduction in the province. Read our statement.

The Mobilizing Justice for Youth Research Project invites at-risk youth aged 13-18 to share their experiences with access to transit and transportation challenges.

Monique Pongracic-Speier, a BC lawyer who devoted thousands of pro bono hours on the Centre for Family Equity’s constitutional challenge to BC’s family law legal aid system, has received the 2024 Harry Rankin, QC Pro Bono Award! 

With the end of the school year just around the corner, free transit for all teens is more important than ever.

We are excited to announce the Surrey Teachers' Association has endorsed our Transit for Teens campaign!

On Mother's Day, lead researcher, Dr. Lea Caragata, along with peer researchers, Sayeeda Noorani and Rachel Livingston, shared the experiences of lone, working parents during the pandemic in a CBC feature story. Sayeeda and Rachel both speak eloquently about their personal challenges making ends meet when the pandemic upended child care and income sources. 

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The Centre for Family Equity is highlighting its first-of-its-kind research report, No Way to Escape: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Low-Income Lone-Mother Workers in BC released in March. The research found the pandemic had a significant, negative impact on the economic situation for most of the low-income lone mothers in the study.

The Transit for Teens Youth Coalition, a youth-driven leadership group within the Centre for Family Equity, has published a persuasive editorial in The Tyee to make the case for free transit for all youth on Earth Day 2024.