YAWC actively communicates with existing and potential partners by identifying unique ways to collaborate with key stakeholders on facilitating change for advancement and resiliency for Indigenous women and marginalized people in Yukon and northern British Columbia. YAWC participates in conferences and sits on committees to build mutual understanding, share information, learn from successes and failures, and hold each other accountable for proposed actions that promise to effect positive change on the lives of Indigenous women and their families.
Collaboration Through Partnerships
YAWC works hard to strengthen existing and develop new partnerships with agencies that help advance YAWC's mandate. Current partners through funding agreements and/or working groups include:
- Government of Canada
- Justice Canada
- Women and Gender Equality Canada
- Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada
- Indigenous Services Canada
- Yukon Government
- Women and Gender Equity
- Victim Services
- Health and Social
- National Organizations
- Native Women's Association of Canada
- Community Agencies & Businesses
To make a financial contribution, please visit the Parners page.
Boards and Committees
- Community Advisory Board on Homelessness - Coordinated by a Community Entity, the board comprises key organizations, including YAWC, that provide direction for addressing homelessness in Yukon.
- Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) Interagency Advisory Committee - Led by Yukon Government Health and Social Services, the committee brings together organizations, including YAWC, to meet the goals of the FASD Action Plan.
- Local Advisory Committee on the MMIWG Commemoration Project - Led by YAWC, this committee brings together partners to provide guidance in the delivery of the project.
- Medicine From the Land Working Group - Led by YAWC, this group brings together knowledge holders of Indigenous teaching to guide YAWC land-based outreach prevention and healing programs.
- MMIWG Family Advisory Committee - Coordinated by the Yukon Government Victim Services, Family Information Liaison Unit (FILU), the committee brings together family members of MMIWG in an advisory role on YAWC and FILU outreach programing (e.g., MMIWG healing camps and outreach support circles).
- Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC) Board of Directors - YAWC is a Provincial-Territorial Member Association of NWAC and as such is eligible for funding support and input opportunities at the national and international advocacy levels. The President of YAWC sits on this board.
- Yukon Advisory Committee on MMIWG2S+ - Coordinated by the Yukon Government Women's Directorate, this committee brings together Yukon organizations with local and traditional knowledge and supports, including YAWC, to facilitate the work of the Commission and National Inquiry into MMIWG.
- Yukon Mineral Sector Diversity & Inclusion Working Group - Led by Yukon Women in Mining, this group brings together organizations, including YAWC, to promote the ongoing advancement of a diverse, inclusive, respectful, and progressive mining industry in Yukon.
- Yukon Women's Coalition - Coordinated by the Women's Transition Home, the coalition brings together grassroots organizations, including YAWC, to discuss, collaborate and address common issues affecting women in Yukon. The Together for Safety Protocol (2015) guides working group initiatives such as the RCMP M Division policies and training.
Benchmark Intervention Measures
Legislation & Policies
- Child and Family Services Act & Regulations
- Youth Child & Youth Advocate Office - Empty Spaces Caring Connections: The Experiences of Children & Youth in Yukon Group Care 2019
- Report Card: Yukon Family & Children's Services Auditor General of Canada Report 2014
- Children's Law Act
- No regulations
- Coroners Act
- Regulation - General and Special Remuneration Order
- Corrections Act
- Education Act & Regulations
- Housing Corporation Act & Regulations
- Liquor Act & Regulations
- Being amended
- Mental Health Act & Regulations
- Young Offenders Act (Canada)
- No Yukon Act
- Regulation - Hospitals for the custody, treatment or assessment of young persons:
- Whitehorse General Hospital
- Mental Health Services, Health Canada in Whitehorse
- Young Offenders Facility, Whitehorse
- Young Persons Offences Act
- Youth Criminal Justice Act (Canada)
- No Yukon Act
- Regulation - Designated hospitals as per Young Offenders Act (Canada)
- Yukon Advisory Council on Women's Issues Act
- Yukon Missing Persons Act
- Act not yet in force
- No regulations
Strategies, Programs & Tools
- Pathways- Stories of collaboration, partnership and reconciliation 2021 Report
- Whitehorse Point in Time Count (PiT) 2021 Report
- Native Women's Association of Canada (NWAC)-Our Calls, Our Actions-2021 Action Plan.
- Report of the Auditor General of Canada (to the Yukon Legislative Assembly Mental Health Services in Rural Yukon—Department of Health and Social Services 2021
- Jordan’s Principle and Children With Disabilities and Special Needs: A Resource Guide and Analysis of Canada’s Implementation by First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada, Wabanaki Council on Disability, Mawita’mk Society 2021.
- Mineral Development Strategy Independent Panel released the final Yukon Mineral Development Strategy and Recommendations report 2021. *This report has been submitted to the Government of Yukon and First Nations for their review and consideration
- Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) 2021.
- First Nations Child & Family Caring Society of Canada report to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child, "Canada’s Ongoing Racial Discrimination Against 165,000 First Nations Children and Their Families", for Canada's Fifth and Sixth Periodic Report 2020
- Changing the Story to Upholding Dignity and Justice - Yukon's MMIWG & Two-Spirited+ People Strategy 2020
- Putting People First - Final report of the comprehensive review of Yukon's health and social programs and services 2020
- National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMWG) - Calls for justice 2019
- Yukon FASD action plan 2019
- Intimate partner violence: Experiences of First Nations, Métis and Inuit women in Canada 2018 report
- Safe at home - A community-based action plan to end and prevent homelessness in Whitehorse, Yukon 2017
- Forward together - Yukon mental wellness strategy 2016-26
- Yukon regional roundtable on MMIWG declaration 2016
- Sharing Common Ground - Review of Yukon's Police Force: Final Report on Implementation 2014
- A child and youth mental health and addictions framework for the Yukon 2014
- Options, choices, changes - a handbook for women experiencing violence 2013
- National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation
- Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) of Canada Calls to action 2012
- Truth and Reconciliation Progress call to action tracker Beyond 94
- Yukon Health & Social Services & Programs
- Comprehensive Review Final Report: Putting People First 2020
- Report Card: Yukon Health Services & Programs Auditor General of Canada Report 2011
- United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) 2007
- Order in Council: Report of the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples 1991
- Umbrella Final Agreement 1990