Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
This webpage is a centralized hub for resources related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV) from organizations across British Columbia, as well as key national and international research. We will continue to update this webpage as further resources become available.
COVID-19, Substance Use, and Intimate Partner Violence
A series of briefs that examines the role of COVID-19 and substance use in intimate partner violence among women. The goal of using this knowledge is to support services providers in how they can better respond to issues of COVID-19 and resulting containment measures, IPV and substance use.
Who Can Stay in the Family Home on Reserve
This easy-to-understand, illustrated brochure gives basic information about the Family Homes on Reserves and Matrimonial Interests or Rights Act and explains your rights to the family home on reserve.
Feminist Intersectionality: A Primer
The Feminist Intersectionality Primer situates women’s experiences of inequality in a broad web of power relations and rooted in systems of power such as racism, classism, ableism, and heterosexism.
Family Violence in Canada: A statistical profile, 2019
The 2019 edition of the report begins with an overview of police-reported family violence. The sections that follow present police-reported data dedicated to family violence against children and youth, intimate partner violence and family violence against seniors.
Family Violence & Family Law Brief: Coercive Control and Family Law
This issue of Family Violence & Family Law Briefs provides a primer on coercive control for legal, social service, and healthcare professionals who are supporting survivors of family violence in the family court system.
Fact Sheet: The Criminalization & Overincarceration of Indigenous Women
This sheet provides an overview on the overincarceration of Indigenous women in federal prisons, as well as its interconnected causes , which include the over-policing and under-protection of Indigenous communities, systemic socioeconomic marginalization, and ongoing colonial policies and institutions.
Fact Sheet: Strip Searches in Federal Prisons Designated for Women
Strip searches are often experienced as sexual assault and can have detrimental effects on incarcerated women, non-binary, and two sprit people. This fact sheet provides an overview on this pervasive issue in federal prisons in Canada designated for women.
Recommendations for Improving Policing and Police Accountability for Girls
This is a submission to B.C’s Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act highlighting state failures to protect girls and young women from violence as the root cause of girls’ homelessness, institutionalization and criminalization. This submission calls for the decriminalization of teen girls entirely, operating from the knowledge that their involvement in the criminal justice system is rooted in their efforts to protect themselves.