Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
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.
A Roundtable on Sex Work Politics and Prison Abolition: Elene Lam, Chanelle Gallant, Robyn Maynard and Monica Forrester
This roundtable links sex workers’ issues to race and sexuality, police brutality, and prison abolition, bringing different movements together and discussing what should be done to support the rights of sex workers.
Follow Up on the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry
This report is the provincial government’s official follow up to the provincial Missing Commision of Inquiry, which made 63 recommendations plus two urgent measures to increase the safety and save lives of vulnerable women and girls in British Columbia.
Change in Our Back Yard: A Peer Study About the Lives of Sex Workers in the DTES
This report is a groundbreaking peer-led community consultation and survey process in which survival sex workers came together to create and produce research on the lives of woman-identified sex workers in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.
Responses from the Field: Sexual Assault, Domestic Violence, and Policing
Advocates, service providers, attorneys, and community members in the U.S shared stories, concerns and recommendations regarding policing and domestic violence and sexual assault.
Change in Our Back Yard: A Peer Study About the Lives of Sex Workers in the DTES
This report is a groundbreaking peer-led community consultation and survey process in which survival sex workers came together to create and produce research on the lives of woman-identified sex workers in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.