Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Reporting on Gender-Based Violence: A Guide for Journalists
This guide is for news media outlets, journalists, and journalism students on trauma-informed reporting
of gender-based violence.
Girls Without Barriers: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Canada
Girls Without Barriers seeks to identify and address gaps in research regarding the needs of girls with disabilities, as well as to increase the participation of girls with disabilities and deaf girls in girl-serving programs.
Rooting Resilience: A Needs Assessment about Women with Disabilities, Gender-Based violence, and the Potential of Peer Support Services
This report summarizes the experiences of women and girls with disabilities experiencing gender-based violence at disproportionately high rates, and provides an exploration on the potential of peer support model for services to be adapted to meet the unique needs of women and girls with disabilities.
Mental Health Supports for Racialized Women at Risk of Gender-based Violence. A Toolkit for Service Providers and Advocates
The toolkit provides information to service providers, advocacy groups and activists serving gender based violence survivors to better address the needs of racialized women.
Women with Disabilities & Housing
Learn how poverty and discrimination in housing is compounded if a person with a disability identifies as a woman, is Indigenous, Black or African Canadian, is from other racialized groups, identifies as Trans and/or is a migrant or refugee with precarious immigration status.
Right to be Safe: Creating Inclusive Services for Women with Disabilities Experiencing Violence
The resource booklet provides service providers in the violence prevention and response sector with information on statistics about violence against women with disabilities, understanding barriers people with disabilities face, communication and interaction tips about people with a range of disabilities, and accessibility planning tips.
Reducing Barriers to Support for Women Fleeing Violence: A Toolkit for Supporting Women with Varying Levels of Mental Wellness and Substance Use
This toolkit provides transition housing programs, and other service providers that support women, with tools to effectively provide services to women fleeing violence who have varying levels of mental wellness and/or substance use.
Able Mothers: The Intersection of Parenting, Disability and the Law
This report addresses the legal and policy issues faced by mothers with disabilities in Canada. It makes clear that women with disabilities experience many distinct parenting issues not faced by disabled fathers or non-disabled parents of other genders.