This page is dedicated to our participation in:
The annual National Victim of Crime Awareness Weeks during 2010, 2011, 2012, and 2013. We look forward for future work on this ground.

With Great Appreciation for the Funding by Justice Canada.

G.V. Counselling & Education Society for Families Presented:
A Public Event on April 21, 2013 as part of our Participation in the National Victim of Crime Awareness Week 2013.

“WE ALL HAVE A ROLE” was the theme for the 8th annual National Victim of Crime Awareness Week. We invited our team of staff, volunteers and community members to participate in our celebration and volunteer appreciation event on April 21, 2013 in Grouse INN hotel – North Vancouver.

After a presentation covering past years and present inspirations in participating in this significant national awareness week, we managed to acknowledge and show our Appreciation for the team of staff, volunteers, and members who have done enormous work in assisting victims of crime.
We did highlight how each one of us has a role and how we all take our role rightly. By empowering and recognizing each individual’s work and our team efforts, we did create a sense of pride and joy for the future work in the field of victim support.
Thanks to all who attended our very successful event on April 21, 2013, our team explored and discussed “WE ALL HAVE A ROLE” in a close to heart ceremony. Gladly we like to share the power point used for the presentation on this day.

Presentation for Victim Seminar 2013

For more Photos please check our facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/IranianEducators/photos_stream
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Report: Moving Forward; Public Seminar for TriCity, April 25, 2012

Report: Moving Forward; Public Seminar in North Vancouver BC April 22, 2012

National Victims of Crime Awareness Week 2012: Moving Forward

The National Victims of Crime Awareness Week runs from April 22 -28, 2012. The theme moving forward was chosen for 2012 to acknowledge the journey of each victim of crime, to highlight the work that has been done to give victims a greater voice in the criminal justice system, and to recognize the people who work with victims of crime every day.

In celebrating the rights of victims of crime, Iranian Educators Society for Families (IESF) will for the third year in a row, offer public programs. IESF therefore, acknowledges receiving a generous grant from the Justice Canada, for participating in the seventh annual National Victims of Crime Awareness Week (NVCAW) 2012.

The theme for NVCAW 2012 is: “Moving Forward.” This theme recognizes victim’s right, government initiatives to give victims a more effective voice, and victim services throughout Canada.

Goals for our events are:

Showing support for the victims of crime and of their families,
Raising awareness of the important role victims of crime have in the criminal justice system,
Calling attention to the services and assistance available to victims and their families in your community,
Encouraging idea-sharing and networking within our communities and among victim-support services,
Celebrating and recognizing those who support victims and their families;
And promoting moving forward through hope and empathy, when the victim is ready.

Thus: We would like to invite public to attend two very important seminars that our society offers two cities; in North Vancouver and Coguitlam BC.

North Vancouver Seminar:
Date: April 22, 2012
Place: St: Andrews Church, 1044 St. George’s Ave, North Vancouver, BC, V7L 3H6
Time: 6.00-8.00 pm

Coguitlam Seminar:
Date: April 25, 2012
Place: Pinetree community Centre, 3000 Guilford Way, Coquitlam BC, V3B 7N2.
Time: 7.00-9.00 pm

Program for both events we offer light dinner / refreshments.
We welcome and encourage each and every person in our communities to attend.

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National Victims of Crime Awareness Week 2011

Successful Event

On April 10, 2011 we celebrated Many Voices Many Paths with participation of a large number of people from our Community and with support of many volunteers. We held this gathering in the beautiful Community room of West Vancouver, Park Royal South.

Our seminar included a thorough presentation of the project NVCAW 2011, a brief background history about last year project, a dynamic and interesting role play of our youth Group presenting Youth victimization, Panel discussion covering various ares of victimization, volunteer appreciation, and dinner. We thank all our board members, staff, volunteers, and members of the community for their invaluable support and hard work for this very important day.

Extensive report covering this event will be published in our social media as well as the Weekly Persian Newspapers. Photos can be seen on our Facebook page.

We invited our community through this announcement:

National Victims of Crime Awareness Week 2011 Being celebrated here in Vancouver, British Columbia

“Many Voices, Many Paths.” is the theme of this year’s National Victims of Crime Awareness Week, taking place across Canada from April 10 to 16, 2011. Activities across the country will focus on raising awareness of services available to victims of crime in Canada, as well as further exploring new ways to reach out to victims of crime to let them know their experience matters and that there are organizations like Iranian Educators Society for Families looking after them.

“National Victims of Crime Awareness Week is an important event for our community because Our Canadian – Iranian – Farsi speaking communities would benefit from public awareness-raising and with celebration theme offering a sense of appreciation for many voices and many paths. We like to initiate a public celebration by offering food, time for socializing, normalizing, info sharing, and presentation by our speakers emphasizing services open to everyone. This celebration helps empowering individuals to come forward and seek services if they need to.

We like to open the doors to reviewing our understanding while emphasizing on the integrity of all victims. Trauma and victimization among the Iranian Community has no one single format since the structure and definition of respect for human life has changed since long time ago. Celebration of human life and dignity of victims of crime will empower many voices and many paths. This event is public and invites the Farsi-Speaking community residing anywhere in the Greater Vancouver area and the Lower Mainland.

Iranian Educators Society for Families will commemorate the Week with a one evening of celebration occurring in North Vancouver B.C. Detailed information about the location and time will be released soon through a public invitation.

Our celebration is about increasing understanding for people from all different social and cultural backgrounds. We would like to celebrate differences by emphasizing on the respect for diversity in many shapes and many forms. We show sensitivity to diversity and gender by acknowledging how we are all human beings despite of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientations, age, and social status. This is about to say that we are different and it is what makes us unique individuals.
   
Please join us for the celebration of Victim Week by attending our public event on April 10, 2011.

Address: Park Royal community Room
Park Royal Shopping Centre
West Vancouver BC
Time: 5.00-8.00 pm
We serve light Dinner & Beverages.
This is a public event.
Cost: None.

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December 2010:

We are honoured to announce that our Society made an application to the National Victims of Crime Awareness Week 2011, “Many Voices, Many Paths. Now it is our pleasure to inform that our application for funding has been reviewed and will be recommended for approval. We are looking forward for the fulfilment of our plans for this important week of acknowledgment of how our many voices and many paths matters. The list of activities will be outlined in January 2011.

Our Documentary: http://www.parvazfilm.cityslide.com/community_work.html
We are also on YouTube:

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April 2010

We managed to successfully offer all three seminars that we had planned for in addition to our major project involving creating a TV documentary about victim’s right in Persian. our Video will be put on Youtube and available to our community in large.

Summary of our shared information with public with Persian Text:

Summary of the Shared Info on our NVCAW 2010:Why Every Victim Matters

December 2009:

We are delighted to inform the approval of a proposal for funding by The Department of Justice Canada for participating in the National Victims of Crime Awareness Week 2010 (NVCAW): Every Victim Matters.

Name of our Project: NVCAW 2010 “Every Victim Matters” – In Raising Awareness & Showing Support: The Victims of Crime/ Trauma within the Iranian/ Farsi-Speaking Community Residing In the Lower Mainland- By Iranian Educators Society for Families

This project has four main parts: two seminars, one training session, and one TV show.

What: Overall, the project consists of two seminars for the victims in our community and one training sessions for the victim support workers in the community in large. In addition we will have a 20 min TV program where we outline all our activities and objectives prior to the NVCAW 2010.

Where: The two workshops for our Iranian and Farsi-speaking families would be offered in two main areas where this population resides largely. North Vancouver and Coquitlam are two areas our raising awareness workshops will cover. The TV show has the capacity to be viewed by people in the province of British Columbia and at times this local program is shown in Los Angles Iranian TV programs, as well.

When: April18 (TV show), April 20 (seminar in North Vancouver), April 22 (seminar in Coquitlam) and April 24, 2010 (training session In North Vancouver for service providers/ victim service workers)

Soon, we will announce the details about above mentioned programs.

Proudly, we like to announce that our TV Documentary on Youtube: