A Guide to Exploring Trauma: A Blog Series
“This blog series hopes to shed light on many aspects of trauma to facilitate deeper conversations and spawn not only education and awareness, but change.”
Advocacy & Male-Identified Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence
“As advocates we must work on increasing our understanding of the socio-cultural barriers to disclosing abuse. This requires addressing bias and stigma. It also requires the elimination of structural barriers to help-seeking for male-identified survivors.”
Indigenous women more likely to face violence if they were children in care
“Front-line workers are calling for more support for Indigenous families after a Statistics Canada analysis found First Nations, Inuit and Métis women are more likely to experience physical or sexual assault in their lifetime if they were in government care as children.”
Pasifika Power & Control Wheel Translation Project Report
“This report highlights the indigenous methodologies used and lessons learned from this project, and provides recommendations for how communities can integrate the approaches and lessons learned to their own work of ending gender-based violence in their respective communities.”
Designing IPV Risk Assessments with Deaf Communities
“By using the principles of survivor-centered design, and listening to survivors from these communities, we hoped that we would offer CCRs and other jurisdictions ways to create programs and designs that were culturally and linguistically responsive.”
Podcast: Pride with Manuel Rodriguez
“In celebration of Pride month, we’ll learn about Manuel Rodriguez’s work in the movement to end gender-based violence and his experience as a transmasculine person.”
Characteristics and Trends of Youth Victims of Suicide and Homicide
“The number of youth suicide victims remained relatively stable in 2020, and the number of youth homicide victims increased 47 percent.”
Holistic Approaches to Youth Wellbeing
This web conference features community-based leaders and school-based advocates who are creating comprehensive youth wellbeing strategies to improve safety outcomes.
Medicare Fraud Prevention Week Teaches Everyone How to Prevent Fraud
“A pattern of errors committed by a physician or provider could be considered a red flag of potential fraud or abuse if not corrected.”
Responding to Housing Insecurity/Homelessness Issues for Indigenous Elders who are Victims of Domestic Violence
“Many of our elder relatives find themselves homeless because of domestic violence, elder abuse, divorce, loss of spouse or caregiver, loss of income, or a health crisis, especially during the pandemic. Our elders often have the greatest need for safe, accessible, and affordable housing.”