How Can the Sexual Assault Services Team Help Me?
- We provide crisis support after an assault
- Can accompany you to the hospital, doctor, RCMP etc.
- Can help you explore reporting options
- Can connect you to other support resources
Our job is to make sure you are safe and comfortable and to support you in your choices as you move forward after an assault.
We Work With Other Community Services Too
In addition to working one-on-one with survivors, SAS collaborates with community services and systems to improve responses for victims of sexual assault. This includes ongoing conversations with health care, police services, courts etc. to ensure victims have the most trauma-informed experience possible after an assault. We also welcome all feedback and insights from survivors on their experiences with these assault support systems.
Arika Owen
Airika has worked with NSDP for over 8 years in administration and housing. She is the coordinator of the CAMP project, which collaborates with industry to explore sexual violence safety changes in remote work camps. Airika partners with NSDP counselling staff to research, develop and deliver sexual harassment and assault education to our local high school students and for camp workers across Western Canada. She is honoured to be working on the SAS team, providing support services to people who have experienced sexual assault, exploring systemic changes, and making responses and supports safer and more comfortable for victims/survivors.
Outside of NSDP, Airika works as a Gladue Writer with the BC First Nations Justice Council. She brings years of experience as a woman and mother, communicator and researcher to her role supporting survivors in Northern BC and beyond.
Reach Airika at: 250-876-8686
Pamela Torres
Pamela is the coordinator of our Indigenous-lead Sexual Assault Services in Hazelton BC. Her chief name is Tsagogaak and her family originates from Lax Xsin Tsiihl.
Pamela brings a lifetime of experience as a Gitxsan woman, a wife, mother, and grandmother to this role and has over 30 years experience in restorative justice and indian residential school resolution.
Pamela says her passion is "bringing concilliation to our people, not reconcilliation, because not everyone wants to reconcile."
She considers herself honoured to be working in this position and supporting sexual assault survivors in Hazelton and the surrounding communities.
Reach Pamela at 778-202-9246
SAS in the Media
NSDP Launches More Support for Sexual Assault Survivors - My Bulkley Lakes Now - Lindsay Newman
About Northern Society for Domestic Peace
For more information about Northern Society for Domestic Peace's services and programs, please refer to our parent website www.domesticpeace.ca
You can find information about our HERSTORY here
You can find a list of past community outreach events that NSDP has hosted, facillitated or supported here
You can find a list of our team members here
You can find information on our housing builds in Smithers and Hazelton here
