Safe Harbour: Respect for All

is about a vision in action: creating opportunities for storefront businesses, institutions, agencies, and entire municipalities to celebrate our differences, helping to create safer, more welcoming communities that support diversity and reject discrimination.

Safe Harbour members are leaders in their commitment to providing an inclusive workplace environment and promoting diversity in their communities by following these three simple commitments:

Equitable Treatment:

A commitment to treating all of clients and/or customers in an equitable manner. If a concern is expressed regarding a lack of equitable treatment, employers and staff take this concern seriously and take steps to address it.

Helping Hand:

Providing a temporary and immediate safe place for a community member who has faced discrimination in or near our worksite.

Prepared Employees and Worksites:

Preparing all of staff to develop a shared understanding of diversity and equitable treatment; to encourage a respectful and inclusive work environment; and to respond to those who need a helping hand.

Click here  to learn more about how you can join the growing Safe Harbour community as an individual Friend of Safe Harbour or sign up your business/organization to attend a free orientation session and become a certified Safe Harbour location. There are over 650 Safe Harbour-certified locations in Alberta, BC, Manitoba and soon in Newfoundland.

ICA is the local Safe Harbour community organization for the Greater Victoria Region and provides the no-cost 2-hour orientation session to businesses, schools, community organizations, etc.

For more information about Safe Harbour or to arrange a training session for your business or agency, please contact the ICA Multicultural Program Coordinator: Steven Lorenzo Baileys at sbaileysicavictoria [dot] org or 250 388-4728 ext. 116.