Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
Webinar: Relocation of Children & Decision-Making for Kids
The revisions to Canada’s Divorce Act offer stronger protections for women with children who are fleeing an abusive relationship. However, challenges remain. In this webinar, Pamela Cross will explore two of these issues: relocation of children and decision-making for kids.
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.
Webinar on Cyber Dating Violence: What it looks like and how to support youth
A webinar that reviews identifying cyber dating violence, and how to help youth who are experiencing such violence.
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.
Fact Sheet: Sexual Violence and Coercion in Federal Prisons Designated for Women
This fact sheet provides an overview of key facts and findings related to sexual violence in federal prisons designated for women, and concludes with CAEFS’ recommendations for addressing this issue.