Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Supporting Children with Incarcerated Parents
Children whose parents come into conflict with the law, and particularly those whose parents are incarcerated, experience tremendous stress and disruption in their lives. The impact on children is significant when the parent involved with the justice system is their mother, and this guide is designed to help communities take a leadership role in supporting most at-risk children to experience more stable childhoods.
Getting Home Project: Overcoming Barriers to Housing after Violence
The Getting Home Project: Overcoming Barriers to Housing after Violence focuses on reducing barriers to safe, secure and affordable housing for women experiencing violence in B.C. by emphasizing community-based solutions and policy recommendations.
Expanding Our Frame: Deeping Our Demands for Safety and Healing for Black Survivors of Sexual Violence
Black women and girls’ stories, narratives, and experiences remain largely at the margins of mainstream #MeToo conversations. This policy brief centers the demands of Black survivors of sexual violence.
Métis Perspectives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBTQ2S+ People
This report addresses the situation of violence against Métis women and girls in Canada. Métis women face a unique form of marginalization and discrimination; first, as Indigenous peoples; second, as Métis—the “invisible” among Aboriginal people; and third, as women.
Research 101: Manifesto for Ethical Research in the DTES
Representatives from several diverse Downtown Eastside organizations discuss their experiences with research, the wider context of research in the neighbourhood, and community expectations for more ethical and collaborative research practice.
Courage to Act: Developing a National draft Framework to Address and Prevent Gender-Based Violence at Post-Secondary Institutions in Canada
The “Courage to Act” report captures promising practices, key policy areas, and prevention plans as the foundation of a framework to address and prevent gender-based violence at post-secondary institutions in Canada.
Installing Fear: A Canadian Legal and Policy Analysis of Using, Developing, and Selling Smartphone Stalkerware Applications
This report provides an in-depth legal and policy analysis of technology-facilitated intimate partner surveillance, especially stalkerware techonology, under Canadian law.
Canada: Preventing and Combating Racial Profiling
The report details First Nations’ experiences of racial profiling and racialized policing as a crucial lens to understand discrimination against Indigenous peoples, and provides suggestions to prevent and counter racial profiling.