Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
More Than Bricks & Mortar: A Rights-Based Strategy to Prevent Girl Homelessness in Canada
This report identifies pathways to, impacts of, and solutions to girl homelessness. Girls and women who have experienced poverty and homelessness led the direction, content and work of the project. The report argues that prevention and responses to girl homelessness must begin with the purpose of achieving girls’ basic human rights and especially freedom from male violence.
Empowering Non-Status, Refugee, and Immigrant Women Who Experience Violence
This report rasises awareness about the prevalence of violence against non status, refugee and immigrant women survivors and the damaging impact of intimate partner violence on the individual woman survivor, her children, the family and the community.
Toolkit for Lawyers: Best Practices in Working with Battered Immigrant Women
This toolkit addresses some of the common challenges faced by lawyers working with battered immigrant women, and provides tools and strategies that enhance effective communication with, and legal representation of women.
Toolkit for Immigrant Women Working with a Lawyer
This resource is for all immigrant women who have experienced violence and are going through the legal system. Using this resource will help you be more prepared to work with your legal aid lawyer or any lawyer.
Survival, Strength, Sisterhood: Power of Women in the Downtown Eastside
A short film that documents the history of the annual women’s memorial march in Vancouver, Coast Salish Territories. By focusing on the voices of women who live, love, and work in the Downtown Eastside this film debunks the sensationalism surrounding a neighbourhood deeply misunderstood, and celebrates the complex and diverse realities of women organizing for justice.
Kanawayhitowin Training Video
The Kanawayhitowin video is a 18-minute, documentary which provides critical information about how Indigenous families, and communities are impacted by abuse. Members of the Indigenous community who work with the women and their families as well as key community members share their own experiences as well as inspiring messages emphasizing the importance of community involvement in educating others about the issue and to work toward putting an end to domestic violence in our communities.
Safety Planning for Persons with Disabilities: Advocate Guide
This guide covers the core beliefs and values for helping survivors with disabilities plan for safety, tips on how and when to use a safety plan for a variety of situations experienced by a survivor, and, a safety plan template. The act of planning for safety helps survivors think through possible dangers in a variety of situations and have a plan in mind about what to do when their physical and/or emotional safety is threatened.
Healthy Relationships: Preventing Teen Dating Violence
The Canadian Women’s Foundation’s evaluation of four best practices in dating violence/healthy relationships curricula to assess whether these programs have an impact on youth in the long run and if they have used the skills in either their own relationships or to assist friends/family.