The North Shore Together Against Violence (TAV) Network is a coalition of community

members and representatives from a large variety of groups such as the three local

governments, the two North Shore school districts and North and West Vancouver Parent

Advisory Councils, the North Vancouver RCMP and West Vancouver Police Department,

North Shore Health Region and Lions Gate Hospital, community agencies (e.g. North

Shore Community Services, the North Shore Disability Resource Centre, Capilano

Community Services, North Shore Neighbourhood House, Family Services of the North

Shore, the North Shore Multicultural Society, North Shore Women?s Centre, the North

Vancouver Recreation Commission, and North Shore Crisis Services Society), non-profit

organizations, religious groups and churches, service clubs, and businesses.
 

The Network's beginning goes back to 1992 with the North Shore's United Way Children

and Youth Committee's desire to address youth violence. However, since the committee

saw violence as a much more complex issue, the focus quickly moved to a broader

perspective to include all forms of violence. The main goals became, and continue to be,

to raise awareness around the issue of violence and to mobilize the community to take

positive action.
 

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