Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Tech for Women’s Justice Report
This report examines the intersections between intimate partner violence, legal help, and technology. It draws on data that was gathered through interviews and surveys with survivors of intimate partner violence and explores the experience of survivors in using technology to access legal information and support.
Trans Women and Intimate Partner Violence: Fundamentals for Service Providers
This is a toolkit outlining fundamentals for service providers in affirming and supporting trans women experiencing intimate partner violence, and how to eliminate barriers to services due to gender biases and cisnormativity that trans women face.
Peer-Led Programming for Two-Spirit, Non Binary and Trans Communities
This webinar addresses peer-led programming in providing affirming, supportive services to two-spirit, non-binary and trans survivors of violence.
Navigating Concurrent Legal Processes with Survivors of Domestic Violence
Many women who leave abusive relationships end up dealing with multiple legal processes as they try to rebuild their lives – a family court process to determine decision-making responsibilities and parenting time, navigating immigration issues, a criminal case against their abuser. Learn how these different processes interact with each other.
Police Responses to Domestic Violence: A Fact Sheet
A U.S-based factsheet on police responses to domestic violence, arguing that police responses to domestic violence calls are primarily sites of physical and sexual violence, and neglect.
Intimate Partner Violence in Canada, 2018: An Overview
This resource highlights that women disproportionately experience the most severe forms of IPV, such as being choked, being assaulted or threatened with a weapon, or being sexually assaulted. Additionally, women are more likely to experience more frequent instances of violence and more often report injury and negative physical and emotional consequences as a result of the violence.
Cyber Dating Violence: What it Looks Like and How We Can Support Youth
The use of technology has transformed teen dating relationships and has created opportunities for cyber dating violence. This is a backgrounder on cyber-dating violence and some strategies that parents and educators can use to prevent and reduce cyber dating violence among youth.
Primary Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls: Current Knowledge about Program Effectiveness
This report was written for Women and Gender Equality Canada to highlight what we know about the effective prevention of violence directed at women and girls in a Canadian context.