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.
Girls Without Barriers: An Intersectional Feminist Analysis of Girls and Young Women with Disabilities in Canada
Girls Without Barriers seeks to identify and address gaps in research regarding the needs of girls with disabilities, as well as to increase the participation of girls with disabilities and deaf girls in girl-serving programs.
Rooting Resilience: A Needs Assessment about Women with Disabilities, Gender-Based violence, and the Potential of Peer Support Services
This report summarizes the experiences of women and girls with disabilities experiencing gender-based violence at disproportionately high rates, and provides an exploration on the potential of peer support model for services to be adapted to meet the unique needs of women and girls with disabilities.
Women with Disabilities & Housing
Learn how poverty and discrimination in housing is compounded if a person with a disability identifies as a woman, is Indigenous, Black or African Canadian, is from other racialized groups, identifies as Trans and/or is a migrant or refugee with precarious immigration status.
Factsheet: Women with Disabilities and Violence
This backgrounder explains how violence against women and girls with disabilities is not just a subset of gender-based violence; it is an intersectional category dealing with gender -based and disability-based violence.