Learning and Knowledge Exchanges
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.
Report on Violence Against Women, Mental Health and Substance Use
Experiences with violence can have various impacts on women’s physical and psychological health, including their levels of mental health and substance use. Research affirms that women’s health is profoundly impacted by violence, mental health and substance use and the co-occurrence of these three conditions can adversely impact the outcome of each.
Kanawayhitowin Training Video
The Kanawayhitowin video is a 18-minute, documentary which provides critical information about how Indigenous families, and communities are impacted by abuse. Members of the Indigenous community who work with the women and their families as well as key community members share their own experiences as well as inspiring messages emphasizing the importance of community involvement in educating others about the issue and to work toward putting an end to domestic violence in our communities.
Safety Planning for Persons with Disabilities: Advocate Guide
This guide covers the core beliefs and values for helping survivors with disabilities plan for safety, tips on how and when to use a safety plan for a variety of situations experienced by a survivor, and, a safety plan template. The act of planning for safety helps survivors think through possible dangers in a variety of situations and have a plan in mind about what to do when their physical and/or emotional safety is threatened.
Finding Dawn
This is compelling documentary that puts a human face on the epidemic of missing or murdered Indigenous women in Canada. The film takes a journey into the heart of Indigenous women’s experience, from Vancouver’s skid row, down the Highway of Tears in northern BC, and on to Saskatoon, where the murders and disappearances of these women remain unsolved.
Highway of Tears Symposium Recommendations Report
The Highway of Tears Symposium brings together victims’ families to raise public awareness of their murdered and missing loved ones. The Highway of Tears Symposium, a collective and unified voice of the victims’ families and the community, advances and supports all of the recommendations contained in this report.
Human Rights in Action: A Handbook for Women in Provincial Jails in British Columbia
This toolkit is about enabling women to survive criminalization and prison by reinforcing their own, pre-existing capacities and strengths, and to assist incarcerated women to become a self and peer advocates.
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.