Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women in Canada
This anthology ffers a collection of briefs from a diverse group of experts in the academic, healthcare, and voluntary sectors. These briefs provide greater detail regarding the impact of COVID-19 on women, girls, and gender-diverse people, recognizing the distinct impacts within this group. The diversity of voices and perspectives in this collection serves as a reminder that Canadian women and gender-diverse persons had distinct experiences during the pandemic.
Domestic Violence and Access to Justice: A Mapping of Relevant Laws, Policies and Justice System Components Across Canada
This ebook provides a survey of legislation, key government policies, and justice system components that apply to domestic violence across jurisdictions in Canada, including a survey of different federal laws, provincial laws, territorial laws and Indigenous jurisdiction.
Criminalized Black Women’s Experiences of Intimate Partner Violence in Canada
This study addresses Black women’s victimization and criminalization by examining the ways in which criminalized Black women’s intersecting identities of race, class, and gender influence how they perceive, experience, and respond to intimate partner violence (IPV).
Contextualizing the Experiences of Black Women Arrested for Intimate Partner Violence in Canada
This study examines Black women’s experiences with the police in the context of IPV, from the perspectives of Black women. Issues of race, racism, oppression, subordination, and their intersections with Black women’s experiences of IPV, and their encounters with the police are explored.
Taking Action in Our Spheres of Influence: Intersectional Anti-Racism & Anti-Oppression Gender-Based Violence Framework
This framework draws on the insights, best practices, and strategies in place both within the GBV sector and beyond to offer examples, guidance and considerations for developing and sustaining an intersectional anti-racist and anti-oppressive approach.
Trauma & Violence Informed Care (TVIC): A Tool for Health & Social Service Organizations & Providers
This tool helps to give you clear, practical steps you can take to build Trauma- & Violence-Informed Care (TVIC) into your practice and organization
Incorporating Racial Equity into Trauma-Informed Care
This brief offers practical considerations to help health systems and provider practices incorporate a focus on racial equity to enhance trauma-informed care efforts.
Roadmap to a National Action Plan on Violence Against Women and Gender-Based Violence
This report was developed in response to a nation-wide strategic engagement process with anti-violence leaders to inform the development of a National Action Plan to End Violence against Women and Gender-Based Violence in Canada.