Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Safe at Home: An Alternative Approach to Serving Families Experiencing Domestic Violence
A webinar detailing Safe at Home, an alternative approach to serving families experiencing domestic abuse and violence that focuses on healing the whole family. The abusive partner is the one to move to an off-site facility or independent living, while their partner and children stay in their home.
Are We Ready to Change? A Lawyer’s Guide to Keeping Women and Children Safe in BC’s Family Law System
This report, with a focus on the voices of women survivors, provide an opportunity for lawyers and the legal system in BC to improve its response to family violence. It also provides some practical considerations for lawyers around screening and safety planning, and highlights areas of the Family Law Act that would benefit from thoughtful analysis, law reform, and/or strategic litigation.
24 Hour Census Report (2020): A One-Day Look at Women’s Transition Housing and Support Programs in BC
This snapshot offers some insight into the realities of Women’s Transition Housing and Supports Programs in BC. In just 24 hours in 2020, 844 people were sheltered or supported in-person or remotely through Transition Housing Programs across BC. An additional 77 people were still waiting for services or had to be turned away.
#CallItFemicide 2020
Understanding sex/gender-related killings of women and girls in Canada, 2020 contains critical information that builds on earlier and ongoing work on femicide by highlighting issues that require further investigation and monitoring in the coming years.
Why Can’t Everyone Just Get Along: How BC’s Family Law System Puts Survivors In Danger
Family violence can trap its victims, disproportionately women, in a web of social, legal, political and interpersonal realities which can be challenging for the legal system to address.
Gender-Based Violence in Rural, Remote & Northern Communities
This brief explores how gender-based violence takes place in ways that are both unique and disproportionately high in rural, remote, and northern communities across Canada.
Family Violence in Canada: A statistical profile, 2019
The 2019 edition of the report begins with an overview of police-reported family violence. The sections that follow present police-reported data dedicated to family violence against children and youth, intimate partner violence and family violence against seniors.
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.