Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
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.
Solidarity, Collective Care & Sustainability: Responding to Gender-Based Violence
The work resisting gender-based violence is hard, heart-breaking and requires us to swim upstream against systemic oppression. This workbook intends to build collectivity and sustainability in the work to end gender-based violence.
Responding to Disclosures of Sexual Violence: Friends and Family Guide
This guide is for friends and family of sexual assault survivors, and anyone hearing disclosures of sexual violence in a non-professional context. This guide provides you with some background information on trauma, helpful things to say, and common pitfalls to avoid.
Rape Culture Intervention Toolkit
This toolkit aims to build skills around intervening in daily interactions and moving from a space of simply reacting to building caring structures and safety outside of the criminal punishment system.
Restorative Justice and Gender-Based Violence in B.C.
The project Restorative Justice and Gender-Based Violence in BC: Revisiting the Conversation involves the development of a discussion paper, a four-part virtual dialogue with 25 participants from gender-based violence organizations and Indigenous and immigrant leaders, and a summary report.
Hear My Cry: Breaking the Code of Silence around Intimate Partner Violence among Black Women in and Beyond Midlife
In this qualitative study, researchers utilized an intersectional approach to examine how IPV is experienced and managed by Black Nova Scotian women in and beyond midlife and their experiences of seeking support.
Building Resilience in Children Exposed to Violence: Broadening our Understanding from a Decolonizing and Social Justice Perspective
This webinar reframes the concept of resilience from an individualistic model to a social justice and anti-racist model when supporting children who are exposed to violence.
Essential Elements for Non-Punitive Accountability: A Workbook for Understanding Alternative Responses to Gender-Based Violence
A workbook for understanding alternative responses to gender-based violence because punitive models do not necessarily offer the kind of justice survivors seek, are inaccessible to many people, reproduce systemic inequalities, and often cause further violence in communities.