Contact Help
If you are affected by the issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people and need immediate emotional assistance, call 1-877-477-0775 (BC hotline). You can also access long-term health support services such as mental health counselling, community-based emotional support, and cultural services and some travel costs to see Elders and traditional healers. Family members seeking information about their missing or murdered loved one can access Family Information Liaison Units. Family members include both blood relatives and non-blood relatives, such as adopted families, cultural kin, foster care relatives, and chosen family.
BC Family Information Liaison Unit
Toll-free phone: 1-888-355-0064
Email: BCFILU@gov.bc.ca
Prince George and Vancouver offices. Family Support Workers may also be able to meet with you in your home community.
Community Resources
- Red Dress Day - tl'as̲us̲ dulk'un dzen Observed on May 5th in memory of the lives of the missing and murdered indigenous women and girls of Canada. Etymology: A compound of tl”as̲us̲ ‟dress”, q.v., dulk'un ‟it is red”, q.v., and dzen ‟day”, q.v..
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SD57 Resources
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- Missing & Murdered: Finding Cleo | CBC Listen Where is Cleo? Taken by child welfare workers in the 1970’s and adopted in the U.S., the young Cree girl’s family believes she was raped and murdered while hitchhiking back home to Saskatchewan. CBC news investigative reporter Connie Walker joins the search to find out what really happened to Cleo.
