Women’s Ministry

The Métis Women of British Columbia are focused on empowering Métis Women to fulfill their potentials in all aspects of their lives: physical health and well-being, cultural connection, community involvement, family well-being, education, and economic security. The Métis Women of British Columbia are entrusted to enhance and empower the rights of Métis Women and to ensure that Métis Women’s voices and political representation are prioritized at the community, regional, provincial and national level.

The Métis Women of British Columbia promote: Métis culture, language and traditions, nurturing healthy families and communities through sustaining a healthy lifestyle, respecting the diversity and uniqueness of all Métis people, honouring our elders and valuing their traditional knowledge and cultural values in managing and preserving our natural resources for future generations.

The Métis Women of British Columbia will provide, whenever possible, supportive and culturally relevant programs as identified within the Métis community. The Métis Women of British Columbia welcomes the participation and involvement of Métis Women. The Métis Women of British Columbia will strive to address issues in a manner, which reflects the changing needs of the Métis women in BC and be aware of the diversity between these needs in urban and rural communities.

Red Dress Beaded Earring

Red Dress Earring Graph

Red dress earring instructions

MWBC Stress Management in COVID-19 Follow up Session

MWBC Stress Management in COVID-19 Report

Grounding Worksheet

Enhancing Métis Women’s health & resiliency

The Métis Women of British Columbia (“MWBC”) upholds the MNBC Constitution and is guided by the Métis Nation British Columbia Organizational policies with respect to administrative and financial procedures. The Métis Women of British Columbia are guided by Métis traditional knowledge, cultural and family values in their activities. The Métis Women of British Columbia committed to utilizing culturally-based resolution processes for addressing conflict or inappropriate behaviour.“The Métis Women of BC have an agenda of an open heart and we respect and trust in the process.  We are encouraging appropriate boundaries, principles and procedures.”

Métis women’s representatives from all over BC gathered for the MWBC Annual General Meeting in Richmond, BC on September 14^th, 2018. Forty-eight women were in attendance, from 29 of the 38 chartered MNBC communities. The MWBC Provincial Chair was in attendance, as were six of the seven Regional Métis Women’s Representatives. Through a successful grant application with the Status of Women Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, a Director of Women was hired.

Topics at the AGM included lateral kindness, gender-based analysis, governing structure of the MWBC and next steps for MWBC.

A World Café was completed to gather feedback from women covering eight topics – Education, Economic Development and Employment; Health and Wellness; Housing, Food Security and Poverty; Culture, Language, Heritage; Children and Families; Metis Rights, Land Use and Harvesting; MWBC & MNBC; and Women’s Safety. MWBC will be using the World Café report to fulfil the requirements of the current grants, as well as using it as a guide for the next two funding years and into the future.

In February 2019, a Women’s Conference will be held to gather more data and to be providing opportunities for local women’s representatives to build capacity by attending sessions based on initial feedback noted in the report created from the MWBC AGM.

Details on the February conference and a community grant opportunity from MWBC will be distributed to communities soon.

Women of the Métis Nation Resources and Tool Kits

Documents

Métis Perspectives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBTQ2S+ People
Métis Trauma Informed Toolkit
Métis Women’s Strength-Based Kindness Toolkit

Ending Domestic Violence

We can’t stop sexual violence if we don’t all speak up and say something. Help to dispel the myths. #SaySomethingBC

Violence Prevention Resources

Documents

Métis Wellness Wheel

Healthy Families

Give Respect

Building Communities

Acronym

Atira Women’s Resource Society

Atira Women’s Resource Society is a not-for-profit organization committed to the work of ending violence against women through providing direct service, as well as working to increase awareness of and education around the scope and impact on our communities of men’s violence against women and children.

Atira is accessible to anyone who identifies and lives full time as a woman and who experiences gendered violence and misogyny, including trans, two spirit and intersex women and or those who identify with a femme of centre non-binary gender. Atira recognizes the barriers and stigmatization faced by women who do not fit into society’s gender-binary system and the violence, poverty and discrimination they encounter as a result.

Métis Nation BC Women’s Policies and Procedures

Documents

Métis Nation BC Women’s Policies and Procedures

MNBC Métis Women BC (MWBC)

Documents

Women’s Act

Métis Nation BC Women’s Policies and Procedures

Maternal Health

Perinatal Substance Use Education

Upcoming Events

• BCAPOP Presents: The ABCs of Eat, Sleep, Console
• BCAPOP Virtual Conference