Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside
Red Women Rising: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside is based on the lived experience, leadership, and expertise of Indigenous survivors.
How To Talk To Men Who Are Abusive
This five-minute animated video promotes the message that everyone has a role to play in preventing woman abuse in our community.
Community of Practice: Supporting Trans Women in VAW Shelters
This resource offers tips on supporting trans women in VAW shelters and explores the shifts within the sector as VAW shelters and transition houses grapple with how to better serve trans women and gender diverse people.
Supporting Women with Precarious Immigration Status, Refugees, Refugee Claimants and Immigrant Women Facing Domestic Violence
Supporting Women with Precarious Immigration Status, Refugees, Refugee Claimants and Immigrant Women Facing Domestic Violence is a safety assessment and safety planning tool providing practical information, a toolkit, and a safety assessment and intake form.
“They Just Don’t Care”: Women Charged with Domestic Violence in Ottawa
This article explores the phenomenon of women in Ottawa being inappropriately charged in situations of intimate partner violence, despite policy in Ontario mandating that police are obligated to lay charges against the primary or dominant aggressor.
Keeping Aboriginal Kids Safe
This easy-to-understand, illustrated booklet explains the child protection process for Aboriginal children and families, including what you and your community can do if the Ministry of Children and Family Development or a delegated Aboriginal agency removes your child from your home.
#CallitFemicide 2018
Understanding sex/gender-related killings of women and girls in Canada, 2018 contains critical information that builds on earlier and ongoing work on femicide by highlighting issues that require further investigation and monitoring in the coming years.