Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Toolkit for Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services
This companion toolkit accompanies the report “Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services,” and details key barriers for racialized survivors seeking safety and offers best practices in developing anti-racist interventions that better supports Indigenous, Black, newcomer immigrant/refugee, and racialized survivors.
Colour of Violence: Race, Gender & Anti-Violence Services
A community-based research project to better understand and raise awareness on the experiences of Indigenous, Black, newcomer immigrant/refugee, and racialized survivors accessing gender-based violence services in B.C.
Learning Lessons from a Pandemic: Building Knowledge on Disaster Preparedness and Gender Based Violence
This national study is meant to inform ongoing work related to GBV shelters’ responses to disaster and crisis
management—with a particular focus on lessons being learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
A Rights-Based, GBA+ Analysis of the National Housing Strategy
The ratification of the National Housing Strategy Act (NHSA) in 2019 has the potential to transform our response to gender-based inequities within the Canadian housing system. Importantly, however, advocates and academics have identified significant gaps between NHS programs and policies and a rights-based approach to housing. In light of these gaps, this report employs a rights-based, GBA+ analysis of NHS programs, policies, and expenditures, exploring their relevance to the progressive realization of the right to housing for women, girls, and gender diverse people in Canada.
The Pan-Canadian Women’s Housing & Homelessness Survey
This is a pan-Canadian mixed-methods survey to explore the housing challenges facing women, girls, and gender diverse people. Completed by 500 diverse women and gender diverse people living in communities across the country, this research constitutes the largest national gender-specific survey on housing need and homelessness to date.
Tenant Survival Guide
TRAC’s popular Tenant Survival Guide is now an online Wikibook with fully searchable, and hyperlinking functions to key forms and resources.
Implementation of the Right to Housing For Women, Girls, and Gender Diverse People in Canada
The purpose of this report is to inform the Federal Housing Advocate on key housing challenges and housing rights violations experienced by women, girls, and gender diverse people in Canada. There is a severe lack of affordable and appropriate housing that meets the needs of diverse women and women-led families, exacerbated by systemic issues that keep many trapped in poverty and struggling to obtain housing assistance.
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.