Reports and Submissions

Our November 2025 joint letter with Disability Alliance BC and BC Poverty Reduction Coalition to fully remove the spousal cap for people receiving disability assistance

Erase Racism in BC Schools: Families Lead the Way - Report on the K-12 Without Racism Year 1 Scoping Survey Findings

Joint letter to Minister of Citizens' Services with the BC Alliance for Health Living addresses barriers to accessing physical activities for equity-seeking families.

A Listening Campaign is a form of community engagement we carry out with our members to build community, mobilize engagement, identify concerns and priorities, and chart CFE's strategic direction. 

The CFE supports the full insourcing of HandyDART services to ensure quality services for those impacted by mobility issues and family-supporting BC-based jobs in an important step towards a fully public transit in BC.

The Centre for Family Equity has submitted a letter to BC’s Minister of Labour calling for urgent reforms of BC's Employment Standards Act to tackle loopholes enabling precarity and improve employment standards for lone mother workers.

The Centre for Family has sent a letter to the Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness sharing research data and recommending gender-based violence shelters and services are deemed essential services in any emergency in BC and a Vulnerable Populations Task Force focused on at-risk families and emergency planning.

The CFE has released a letter to BC's Minister of Health in support of expanding MSP-billable mental health care in BC to address mental health equity for low-income families.

In March 2024, we released our research report, No Way to Escape: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Low-Income Lone-Mother Workers in BC. 

Led by a team of peer researchers who were all lone mothers, our research with the UBC School of Social Work found the pandemic had a significant, negative impact on the economic situation for most of the low-income lone mothers in the study.