{"id":108539,"date":"2022-07-29T18:24:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-29T22:24:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=108539"},"modified":"2022-07-29T18:24:47","modified_gmt":"2022-07-29T22:24:47","slug":"terrace-confronts-period-poverty-with-free-period-product-dispensers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/terrace-confronts-period-poverty-with-free-period-product-dispensers\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrace confronts period poverty with free period product dispensers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The City of Terrace is working to tackle period poverty and social stigma by providing free period products in municipal bathrooms.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Mayor Carol Leclerc originally brought up the idea in a June 2021 council meeting which was met with great support.\u00a0<\/span>Director of Leisure Services Tara Irwin was then instructed to research the costs of this initiative.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Irwin talked to United Way British Columbia about their Period Promise research project and looked at examples of other communities starting similar initiatives.\u00a0<\/span>Research from the Period Promise Project<\/a> found that 51 per cent of their respondents struggled with access to period products which caused a feeling of isolation, often missing school, work, and social events.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With this information, Irwin proposed a six month pilot project to work out any flaws that may come, the $8,000 cost of the project was added to the 2022 budget to be funded by surplus.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A pilot project was proposed because free period product and condom dispensers had to be removed from the Sportsplex twelve years ago due to vandalism and low usage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Eight bathrooms across six different municipal buildings now hold either a dispenser or a container of period products, three of those bathrooms are gender neutral.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Community response has been positive, according to Irwin, although suggestions have been made to have more bathrooms offer products for people who do not identify as a woman but still get periods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Information and suggestions from the pilot project will be taken into consideration so that improvements can be made to increase accessibility to these vital products.<\/span><\/p>\n

Listen to the full radio story with Tara Irwin below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The City of Terrace is working to tackle period poverty and social stigma by providing free period products in municipal bathrooms.\u00a0 Mayor Carol Leclerc originally brought up the idea in a June 2021 council meeting which was met with great support.\u00a0Director of Leisure Services Tara Irwin was then instructed to research the costs of this…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":108811,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[488,17298,5445,17297,827,6274,6972],"radio":[13054],"origine":[280,13049,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108539"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108816,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108539\/revisions\/108816"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108539"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=108539"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=108539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}