Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Video: Supporting People Living With Domestic Violence
This backgrounder provides an overview of risk factors in identifying domestic violence and how best to support people experiencing domestic violence.
Safety in Relationships: Same-Gender
This resource describes relationship abuse, dispels common myths about abuse involving 2SLGBTQ+ folk, discusses why a person might stay with an abusive partner, and provides practical tips for making a plan to stay safely or leave safely.
Intimate Partner Violence Risk Identification and Assessment Tool: User Guide
A risk assessment tool to assist survivors of gender-based violence who are involved in family court proceedings. The risk assessment tool takes into consideration physical, emotional, mental, social/cultural, racial, financial, legal, and spiritual abuse and the multiple sources of oppression and systemic barriers that women are often subject to.
How Can I Help My Friend
This toolkit is to assist family members and friends who are wondering how best to support a loved one who is experiencing gender-based violence. If you have thought “What can I do to help my friend?,” then this resource is for you.
Into the Light Panel Discussion
An online panel discussion on the unique experiences of and barriers faced by immigrant women survivors of domestic violence, inspired by the NFB documentary “Into the Light.”
BC Gender Equality Report Card 2019/2020
The BC Gender Equality Report Card 2019/2020 assesses the B.C government’s progress in advancing human rights and gender justice between December 2018 and early April 2020. It explores six issue areas: access to justice; economic security; freedom from gender-based violence; health care; justice for people who are criminalized; and the rights of parents, children, and youth.
Addressing Gendered Violence against Inuit Women: A review of police policies and practices in Inuit Nunangat
To explore the police response to gendered violence against Inuit women, in-depth, qualitative interviews with 45 Inuit women and 40 service providers (including police officers) were conducted in the four regions in Inuit Nunangat.
#CallitFemicide 2019 Infographic
This 2019 infographic 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.