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While there are services for victims of sexual violence and assault in Banff, the local YWCA sends survivors in need of specialized counselling to bigger centres, like Calgary.
Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services calls for more provincial funding
Faith Myers (left) and Samantha-Jo Dick of the Yeqox Nilin Justice Society stand outside the Williams Lake Courthouse. The society is one of 23 organizations receiving emergency sexual assault services funding grants through the Ending Violence Association of BC. (Rebecca Dyok photo) Nearly two decades after funding was cut to all BC Sexual Assault Centres, the Ending Violence Association of BC (EVA BC) hopes a new funding grant program it is administering will start to fill the gaps. Executive director Tracy Porteous said the B.C. Government agreed last March to provide $10-millio...