Angela Marie MacDougall, Executive Director of Vancouver based Battered Women’s Support Services, joins us for an update on Intimate Partner Violence. She joined the Forum in a recorded zoom discussion during the Covid lockdowns, when she talked about the huge rise in reported, and unreported, cases of IPV as people coped with the stresses and enforced living arrangements of lockdown.

Recent local and global reports suggest that things have not improved for the better since those days. Why? And what can we do to protect the vulnerable?

Alicia Herbert, the Executive Director of IWAV (Islanders Working Against Violence) on Salt Spring, will moderate the discussion.