What if you could go to prison for something you couldn't change?
Positive Women: Exposing Injustice is a documentary that follows the lives of four Canadian women with HIV/AIDS, and their experience with intimate relationships, violence, stigma and the Canadian Criminal Justice System. Through an intersectional feminist and anti-opressive lens, the documentary unpacks legal jargon surrounding HIV non-disclosure and sexual assault that is being used to criminalize people with HIV/AIDS, especially women, by the Criminal Justice System. The film documents the importance of updating laws on HIV disclosure to match current scientific information, as well as addressing violence(s) women with HIV/AIDS could experience after disclosure. A Discussion Guide is also available with this documentary to facilitate discussion on social and legal change on disclosure and the criminalization of people with HIV/AIDS.
Length: 45 minutes
This report looks at the prevalence and impact of family violence on the health of Canadians. The reports covers risk factors that influence family violence; understanding the long-term impact of family violence on health through a life-course perspective; as well as looking at approaches and practices of addressing family violence through primary prevention. The report is available in both English and French.
Page Length: 64Â
This report looks at the prevalence and impact of family violence on the health of Canadians. The reports covers risk factors that influence family violence; understanding the long-term impact of family violence on health through a life-course perspective; as well as looking at approaches and practices of addressing family violence through primary prevention. The report is available in both English and French.
Page Length: 64Â
- Introduction to Knowledge Exchange concepts adapted for the context of women's shelters and transition housesÂ
- 10-step framework for Practice Exchange ImplementationÂ
- Detailed case study of the Harmony Project from ManitobaÂ
- Worksheets to help shelters plan the exchange and implementationÂ
Pages: 32Â
This guide takes you through the process of developing political action, from the first stages of evaluating your idea for social change to creating strategy for action and some of the key forms of political action that have worked for women and many equality seeking groups in the past. Includes: lobbyiing government through meetings, calls and letters; media releases, advisories and interviews; and direct public action.
This report on the Pan-Canadian Focus Groups gathers information on women with disabilities and Deaf women's access to abused women's services. The report documents women's experiences in two key areas: types of violence experienced by women; and the impact of this abuse. The results are reported by looking at how women left abusive situations, what did not help and what did, and what women need.
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This Dicussion Guide is designed to accompany the video Safe for All, which explores the value of using a harm reduction approach for substance use. The Discussion Guide explains the Harm Reduction model and its purpose, explores why it is important for VAW shelters to adopt a Harm Reduction model, identifies common barriers to services for women who use drugs or alcohol, and provides techniques for shelter workers to use when working with women who use substances.
The focus of this report is to identify the risk assessment practices and tools that feminist anti-violence shelters and second stage houses use in order to assess rixk, barriers, and potential for harm, as well as to identify how this information is put to use once it is collected. The report aims to contribute to a broadened understanding of "harm" and "risk"; start to collate anecdotal information from shelter workers into data that can be analyzed; and develop a violence against women conceptual momdel of risk assessment that encompasses a more holistic vidw of risk, vulnerability, and assessment processes. Includes samples of tools used in shelters in Ontario.