Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Learning Lessons from a Pandemic: Building Knowledge on Disaster Preparedness and Gender Based Violence
This national study is meant to inform ongoing work related to GBV shelters’ responses to disaster and crisis
management—with a particular focus on lessons being learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sexual Assault Services in a Pandemic: Adaptation, Innovation and Lessons Learned
This is a submission to B.C’s Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act highlighting state failures to protect girls and young women from violence as the root cause of girls’ homelessness, institutionalization and criminalization. This submission calls for the decriminalization of teen girls entirely, operating from the knowledge that their involvement in the criminal justice system is rooted in their efforts to protect themselves.
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women in Canada
This anthology ffers a collection of briefs from a diverse group of experts in the academic, healthcare, and voluntary sectors. These briefs provide greater detail regarding the impact of COVID-19 on women, girls, and gender-diverse people, recognizing the distinct impacts within this group. The diversity of voices and perspectives in this collection serves as a reminder that Canadian women and gender-diverse persons had distinct experiences during the pandemic.
Resetting Normal: Gender, Intersectional & Structural Violence and Leadership
This report argues for the development of a holistic, intersectional leadership development conduit, combined with systemic reforms in governance models, as necessary for developing the conditions for meaningful civic participation and leadership of women, transgender, and Two-Spirit people.
Resetting Normal: Building Intersectional Gender Justice in Post-Pandemic Canada
Resetting Normal is a series of reports that explore risks to human rights exposed by the pandemic and propose new ways to build a gender equal Canada in pandemic recovery efforts.
COVID-19, Substance Use, and Intimate Partner Violence
A series of briefs that examines the role of COVID-19 and substance use in intimate partner violence among women. The goal of using this knowledge is to support services providers in how they can better respond to issues of COVID-19 and resulting containment measures, IPV and substance use.
Family Violence & Family Law Brief: Coercive Control and Family Law
This issue of Family Violence & Family Law Briefs provides a primer on coercive control for legal, social service, and healthcare professionals who are supporting survivors of family violence in the family court system.
A Guide: Promising practices for Engaging Survivors in Research
This guide was developed to support researchers in engaging survivors both ethically and positively. This guide also considers the challenges of conducting research during a pandemic and how researchers can work effectively to collaborate with survivors in a changing environment.