Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Sexual Health Toolkit: Sexually Transmitted Infections
This toolkit for Indigenous peoples provides information you need to keep yourself sexually healthy, information on sexually transmitted infections, including HIV, information on getting tested, and information on sexuality and relationships.
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.
Locking Them Up to Keep Them “Safe”: Criminalized Girls in British Columbia
This report provides a unique glimpse of young women’s experiences of criminalization. Four girls with first-hand experiences of being arrested, appearing in court, and spending time in prison share their stories. The report also offers an overview of the history of girls’ imprisonment in Canada, and the many human and equality-rights abuses criminalized girls are currently subject to.
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.
21st Century Practice – Transforming Women’s Lives
This publication aims to describe Battered Women’s Support Services (BWSS), a 21st Century anti-violence organization for women. BWSS is very proud of its strong roots in the feminist and women’s movements of the late 1970’s, 1980’s and 1990’s, and of the new directions it is taking in its work with women.