In 2019, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre published the report entitled “RED WOMEN RISING: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside” and written by Carol Muree Martin (Nisga’a – Gitanyow) and Harsha Walia. This report is the first comprehensive project with Indigenous women survivors in the DTES figuring at the very centre of community research, rather than as a secondary statistic.
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People who use substances
Recommendation 11:
End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.
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Legislative reform to reduce Indigenous women’s manufactured vulnerability
Recommendation 14: Amend the provincial Residential Tenancy Act to cover all housing and to strengthen tenants rights. Amend the provincial Human Rights Code and Residential Tenancy Act to make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of social condition including health status and drug use.-
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Immediate services needed in the DTES
Recommendation 21: Rapid easy access to Indigenous women’s detox-on-demand where there is no time limit; Indigenous-run treatment centres; indoor overdose prevention sites and consumption sites for Indigenous women only; access to safer drug supply; and full spectrum of substitution treatment options.-
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Immediate services needed in the DTES
Recommendation 22: Guarantee a 24/7 Indigenous mental health and addictions counselling program that is low-barrier, drop-in based, available on demand, and includes overnight street-based counselling in the DTES. Also ensure long-term mental health and addiction services, ranging from prevention, early intervention, treatment, crisis care, home visits, and aftercare.-
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Recommendations for safe and affordable housing for Indigenous women in the DTES
Build social housing and transition homes
Recommendation 99: Provide Indigenous women with individualized options for housing that supports choice and self-determination. For example, women should have the option to live in or outside of the DTES, for abstinence-based or harm reduction-based buildings, for women-only or housing that includes men, for housing that is with or without increased security and guest rules.-
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Recommendations for safe and affordable housing for Indigenous women in the DTES
Legislative protections
Recommendation 106: Amend the provincial Human Rights Code and Residential Tenancy Act to make it illegal to discriminate on the basis of social condition including health status and drug use.-
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Recommendations to keep Indigenous families together in the DTES
Support Indigenous families
Recommendation 123: Guarantee free individualized support such as culturally appropriate parenting programs; detox on demand; and counselling for mothers with mental health diagnoses, learning disabilities, drug use dependence, and who are survivors of domestic violence.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
Recommendation 142: Ensure that that all policing practices conform to the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
Recommendation 144: Expand non-policing options for publicly intoxicated people, including civilian-operated 24-hour sobering centres providing appropriate care for Indigenous women.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Legal and judicial reform
Recommendation 151: End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.-
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