Anti-Violence Worker Support
Communities of Practice
The Communities of Practice (CoPs) are forums for programs to share information and resources, to identify and discuss shared concerns and issues, to celebrate successes, to ask questions and find answers, to network, and to engage in discussion on work-related issues. Get more information in our Community of Practice Q&A.
EVA BC has seven CoPs for programs and coordination initiatives under our provincial umbrella as well as a by-invitation CoP for EVA BC member leaders:
Program Support Communities of Practice
Coordination (CCSS) Communities of Practice
Leadership Community of Practice
- Stopping the Violence Counselling (STVC) programs
- Outreach Services (ORS) — includes Stopping the Violence Outreach Services (STV ORS) and Multicultural Outreach Services (MORS) programs
- Community-Based Victim Services (CBVS) programs
- Sexual Assault Services (SAS) programs
The Community Coordination for Survivor Safety (CCSS) Community of Practice (CoP) meetings are forums for programs to share information, discuss challenges, celebrate successes, and network across programs and regions.
- Community Coordination
- Interagency Case Assessment Teams (ICATs)
- Third Party Reporting (TPR)
We invite EVA BC membership leaders including executive directors and program managers from across the province to join our Leadership Community of Practice (CoP). If you are a leader and have not yet been invited, please be sure to complete the form below or reach out to us at evabc@endingviolence.org. Â
To join any of the Program Support Communities of Practice, you must be a frontline staff carrying a caseload in a Stopping the Violence Counselling (STVC), Stopping the Violence Outreach (STV ORS) or Multicultural Outreach (MORS), Community-Based Victim Services (CBVS), or Sexual Assault Services (SAS) program funded by the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General (MPSSG), and your organization must be a current EVA BC core member. Please note that executive directors must also be carrying a caseload to join any of the Program Support Communities of Practice.
If you are eligible but not yet a member of a Program Support Community of Practice, complete the signup form below (and then complete the Slack workspace signup below this form).
If you work in one of the anti-violence programs funded by MPSSG and eligible for EVA BC core membership and are involved in coordination in your community and would like to join a Coordination (CCSS) Community of Practice (CoP), please complete the form below. If you do not work in any of these programs, but work in another sector and involved in coordination in your community and would like to join, please complete this CCSS CoP for partners form.
If you have questions about our CCSS CoPs, please email ccss@endingviolence.org.

EVA BC Community of Practice signup form
Program Support Slack Workspace
If you are a member of a Program Support CoP, you are eligible to join the EVA BC program support Slack workspace. A Slack workspace is an online communication platform shared by a group (or organization) where people exchange messages and files and work together.
Please read the Program Support Community-of-Practice Slack workspace guidelines and agreement and then complete the form below. We will do our best to respond to your signup within one week, but processing times may vary.
