Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Transitioning to a Life Free From Violence: Second Stage Shelters in Canada
Second stage shelters are a form of transitional housing for survivors of domestic violence and intimate partner violence. Survey results demonstrate that second stage shelters are an essential component of wrap-around supports, providing much-needed stability, programming, and services to women and children survivors of DV.
More Than A Bed: A National Profile of VAW Shelters and Transition Houses
VAW shelters, feminist scholars, and policymakers have long recognized the need to better understand the scope of services and supports provided to women and children fleeing violence at the national level. This report provides a comprehensive national profile of both VAW and second stage shelters.
Getting Home Project: Overcoming Barriers to Housing after Violence
The Getting Home Project: Overcoming Barriers to Housing after Violence focuses on reducing barriers to safe, secure and affordable housing for women experiencing violence in B.C. by emphasizing community-based solutions and policy recommendations.
Expanding Our Frame: Deeping Our Demands for Safety and Healing for Black Survivors of Sexual Violence
Black women and girls’ stories, narratives, and experiences remain largely at the margins of mainstream #MeToo conversations. This policy brief centers the demands of Black survivors of sexual violence.
Métis Perspectives of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and LGBTQ2S+ People
This report addresses the situation of violence against Métis women and girls in Canada. Métis women face a unique form of marginalization and discrimination; first, as Indigenous peoples; second, as Métis—the “invisible” among Aboriginal people; and third, as women.
Research 101: Manifesto for Ethical Research in the DTES
Representatives from several diverse Downtown Eastside organizations discuss their experiences with research, the wider context of research in the neighbourhood, and community expectations for more ethical and collaborative research practice.
Courage to Act: Developing a National draft Framework to Address and Prevent Gender-Based Violence at Post-Secondary Institutions in Canada
The “Courage to Act” report captures promising practices, key policy areas, and prevention plans as the foundation of a framework to address and prevent gender-based violence at post-secondary institutions in Canada.
Installing Fear: A Canadian Legal and Policy Analysis of Using, Developing, and Selling Smartphone Stalkerware Applications
This report provides an in-depth legal and policy analysis of technology-facilitated intimate partner surveillance, especially stalkerware techonology, under Canadian law.