Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
For Your Protection: Peace Bonds and Family Law Protection Orders
This publication is for people who need protection from violent partners or former partners. It explains how and when you can get peace bonds and family law protection orders, and what the differences are between them.
Senior Women Face Disproportionate Rates of Family Violence
The 2021 Statistics Canada report on police-reported violence against seniors (65-89) reveals that senior women are more likely to face family violence than senior men. This includes violence from spouses, children, siblings, and other family, like grandchildren.
Decolonizing Family Law Through Trauma Informed Practices
This report focuses on improving the legal system and access to justice in BC through decolonizing family law. Areas of improvement identified by nearly all experts consulted were “the need to expand the legal system’s understanding of family law to make room for Indigenous laws and concepts, the need for education, and the need for lawyers and other legal system professionals to engage in trauma-informed practice.”
Literature Review: Intersections between Safety and Employment amongst Racialized Women
This literature review explores existing research on the relationship between employment and intimate partner violence, with a focus on the experience of racialized survivors.
Report: Intersections between Safety and Employment amongst Racialized Women in Toronto
For racialized women with experiences of intimate partner violence, economic security and employment can be compounded by structural barriers and racism. WomanACT consulted organizations that serve survivors of intimate partner violence and organizations that specialize in employment services for women on the barriers faced by racialized survivors.
Mothers Leaving Abusive Partners: Family Law Information
This guide is for women with children who’ve been abused by their intimate partner, including a spouse or someone they were never in a relationship with but share a child with.
Gaslighting in Intimate Relationships: A Form of Coercive Control That You Need to Know More About
Gaslighting is abusive behaviour used to coercively control and gain power over another individual. This resource describes gaslighting and what it can look like in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV), examines potential impacts on survivors, and offers strategies for survivors experiencing gaslighting.
#CallItFemicide 2021 Report
The Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability (CFOJA) has released data for 2021, showing that 173 women and girls were violently killed in Canada last year.