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The Best and Worst Places to be a Woman in Canada 2015
Organization: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA)
Published: 2015
Format: Document
Type(s): Report
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Researchers
Topic(s): Health, Poverty and Economic Security, Public Education, Specific Communities
Language(s): English

From the Canadian Centre of Policy Alternatives: This study ranks Canada’s 25 largest metropolitan areas based on a comparison of how men and women are faring in five areas: economic security, leadership, health, personal security, and education. It is intended to provide an annual measure of the gaps that exist between men and women in communities across Canada and serve as a reminder that, with the right choices and policies, these gaps can be closed. According to the ranking, Victoria is the best city to be a woman and Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo is the worst.

Page Length: 82

 
OCRFV Evaluation Framework
Organization: Ontario Collaborative Response to Family Violence
Published: 2016
Format: Document
Type(s): Report
Audience(s): Policymakers, Researchers, Service Providers
Topic(s): Child Abuse, Domestic Violence / IPV, Gender-Based Violence, Physical Violence, Programs and Services
Language(s): English

The Ontario Collaborative Response to Family Violence is a coalition of organizations that are based on "hub" models providing co-located or collaborative services for victims of violence against women, intimate partner violence, child abuse, and family violence. The Evaluation Framework looks at the efficacy and effectiveness of the collaborative hub model in service delivery of collaborative VAW resources. The Framework also contains next steps for the OCRFV Evaluation.

Page Length: 23 pages

Online/Digital Sexual Violence: A resource for parents, professionals and other support people
Organization: Women's Support Network of York Region
Published:
Format: Document
Type(s): Information and Fact Sheets
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Service Providers
Topic(s): Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention, Harassment and Stalking, Public Education, Sexual Violence, Stalking and Harassment, Strategies and Tools, Working with Community
Language(s): English

Online/Digital Sexual Violence: A resource for parents, professionals, and other support people, is a second resource guide created by the by the Women's Support Network of York Region and Women's Xchange from Women's College Hospital, to support parents, professionals, and other support people to help young people experiencing digital/online sexual violence. The resource guide consists of the following

  • Definitions and Facts
  • Strategies for Parents and Professionals
  • Community Reources

The first resource guide created by Women's Support Network of York Region and Women's Xchange, is Are You Online & Okay:A resource for young women experiencing violence.

Page Length: 4 Pages

Are You Online & Okay: A resource for young women experiencing Digital Sexual Violence
Organization: Women's Support Network of York Region
Published:
Format: Document
Type(s): Information and Fact Sheets
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Service Providers
Topic(s): Gender-Based Violence, Gender-Based Violence Prevention & Intervention, Harassment and Stalking, Public Education, Sexual Violence, Stalking and Harassment, Strategies and Tools, Working with Community
Language(s): English

Are You Online & Okay, is a resource guide created by the Women's Support Network of York Region and Women's Xchange from Women's College Hospital, to raise awareness and provide support to young women experiencing digital sexual violence. The resource guide includes the following:

  • Definitions
  • Strategies
  • Community Resources

Page Length: 4 pages

 

Acting on Violence Against Women Is a Blueprint for Health
Organization: Canadian Network of Women's Shelters & Transition Houses
Published: 2016
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Researchers, Service Providers
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Adults, Anti-Racist Anti-Oppressive Lens, Child Abuse, Children and Youth, Children Witnessing and Exposed to Violence, Domestic Violence / IPV, Employment and Pay Equity, Gender-Based Violence, Health, Housing and Homelessness, Immigrant, Refugee, and Non-status Women, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, Lobbying and Political Campaigning, Physical Violence, Poverty and Economic Security, Programs, Racialized Women, Sexual Violence, Women with Disabilities
Language(s): English

The brief looks at the possible impact of a Blueprint for Canada's National Action Plan on Violence Against Women and Girls to address the health of Canadians, through the lens of the social determinants of health.

The brief consists of many social determinants of health, including the following, and details how Violence Against Women and Girls can leave an impact:

  • Experience of Trauma and Violence
  • Income and Social Status
  • Education and Literacy 
  • Employment and Working Conditions 
  • Social Environments and Community Services 
  • Housing, Physical Environments, and Geography

The brief also includes recommendations to address the impact of Violence Against Women and Girls on the health of Canadians, using a social determinants of health lens

 

Shelter Voices 2016
Organization: Canadian Network of Women's Shelters & Transition Houses
Published: 2016
Format: Document
Type(s): Information and Fact Sheets
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers
Topic(s): Adults, Children and Youth, Domestic Violence / IPV, Gender-Based Violence, Housing and Homelessness, Physical Violence, Programs, Programs and Services, Sexual Violence, Working with Community
Language(s): English

The third national survey of transition houses and shelters serving women and children affected by domestic and intimate partner abuse. Conducted by the Canadian Network of Women's Shelters & Transition Houses in 2016, the survey provides a one-day snapshot of 234 shelters from every province and territory in Canada. The survey provides insight into the experience, analysis, and hopes or organizations workers, and program users. 

Length: 4 Pages  

Positive Women: Exposing Justice- Discussion Guide
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Published: 2012
Format: Document
Type(s): Information and Fact Sheets, Toolkit
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Service Providers
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Adults, Anti-Racist Anti-Oppressive Lens, Criminal Justice System, Domestic Violence / IPV, HIV/AIDS, Including Survivors, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, Physical Violence, Public Education, Racialized Women, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Strategies and Tools, Working with Community
Language(s): English

The Discussion Guide accompanying the Positive Women: Exposing Injustice documentary. Developed by the Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network, the Discussion Guide consists of:

  • Definitions,
  • Facts & Statistics
  • Discussion Questions

as well as strategies, initiatives, and resources for the audience to use.

 

Positive Women: Exposing Injustice
Organization: Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network
Published: 2012
Format: Video
Type(s): Advocacy
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Service Providers
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Anti-Racist Anti-Oppressive Lens, Criminal Charges, Criminal Justice System, Domestic Violence / IPV, HIV/AIDS, Including Survivors, LGBT2SQIA, Physical Violence, Public Education, Racialized Women, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Wellness, Working with Community
Language(s): English

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

Regard sur la violence familiale au Canada
Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada
Published: 2016
Format: Document
Type(s): Government Publication, Report
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Researchers, Service Providers
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Adults, Child Abuse, Children and Youth, Children and Youth, Children Witnessing and Exposed to Violence, Domestic Violence / IPV, Emotional Control, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, LGBT2SQIA, Mental Health, Older Women, Physical Health, Physical Violence, Sexual and Reproductive Health, Sexual Violence, Wellness, Women with Disabilities
Language(s): French

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: 64 

A Focus on Family Violence in Canada Public Health Agency of Canada
Organization: Public Health Agency of Canada
Published: 2016
Format: Document
Type(s): Government Publication, Report
Audience(s): Advocates, Educators, Policymakers, Researchers, Service Providers
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Adults, Child Abuse, Children and Youth, Children Witnessing and Exposed to Violence, Domestic Violence / IPV, Emotional Control, Intimate Partner Sexual Violence, Mental Health, Older Women, Physical Health, Programs, Resiliency, Wellness, Women with Disabilities
Language(s): English

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: 64 

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