Reports and Submissions

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

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.

On February 15th, 2024, the provincial government announced a historic agreement reached between the Ministry of the Attorney General, Legal Aid BC, and the Centre for Family Equity, represented by West Coast LEAF.

Our December 21, 2023 recommendation letter to the Province regarding $10-a-day child care development in BC.

This participatory research, carried out in collaboration with the School of Social Work, University of British Columbia, sheds light on the transformative power of accessible and affordable child care for low-income lone mothers and uncovers an unfinished system that still shuts many marginalized families out.