Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Warning Signs Of High Risk Factors For When Women Are Killed
The Domestic Violence Death Review Committee of Ontario reviewed 267 domestic violence cases between 2003-2015 that resulted in domestic homicide (i.e. the abuser killed the person he was abusing). This resource details the 10 most common risk factors.
Drawing the Line on Sexual Violence: A Guide for Ontario Educators
Drawing the Line on Sexual Violence was written by Ontario educators in collaboration with White Ribbon to support teachers in raising awareness among their students about topics relating to sexual violence prevention.
Is that Legal? What the Law Says about Online Harassment and Abuse
This resource is to help youth become safer online when they use social media. It describes four online situations they might find themselves in: taking intimate images; sharing intimate images; cyberstalking, and sexual exploitation.
Indigenous Communities and Family Violence: Changing the Conversation
In this paper, the Canadian literature on Indigenous family violence over a fifteen year period (2000-2015) is critically analyzed using a decolonial lens.
Domestic Violence Against Immigrant and Refugee Women
In this edition of Cultures West, the collection of stories illustrate that domestic violence is a serious social issue with devastating impacts on immigrant children, women, families and communities, and also how How federal and provincial immigration policies can put immigrant and refugee women at risk.
Operating in Darkness: BC’s Mental Health Detention System
B.C. is considered the most regressive jurisdiction in Canada for mental health detention and involuntary psychiatric treatment. The goal of this research project was to investigate and make public some of the most common and troubling components of mental health detention and involuntary psychiatric treatment in B.C.
Key Practices for Community Engagement in Research on Mental Health or Substance Use
This document describes key practices for community engagement in research on mental health or substance use. This document is intended to provide academic researchers with a foundation for conceptualizing how one or both of these communities might be engaged in their next research project in these areas.
Police Abuse of Indigenous Women in Saskatchewan and Failures to Protect Indigenous Women from Violence
This submission outlines Human Rights Watch’s findings on police interactions with Indigenous women in Saskatchewan based on six weeks of fact-finding carried out from January to July 2016, in addition to interviews and correspondence with police authorities and complaint mechanisms from August 2016 to January 2017.