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This toolkit is designed as a guide to assist service providers in dealing with cases of forced marriage in Ontario and to facilitate open discussion with different stakeholders, including youth an dtheir families. It contains practical information fo rthe identification and prevention of forced marriage as well as strategies for intervetion. It will be useful to service providers, teachers, social workers, child and youth workers, and many othes who provide services or supports to women coping with forced marriage.

This film is a glimpse into the lives of 5 strong Ontario women explore the issues of mental health diagnosis and supports. The women have a very simple but powerful message to service providers. Available through the OAITH Training Portal

Approx 30 minutes.

This resource is a report submitted by the Ontario Native Women's Associaton (ONWA) and the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres (OFIFC) as part of the consultations between the Department of Indian Affairs, the Native Women's Association of Canada, and the Assembly of First Nations regarding the topic of matrimonial real property issues on reserves. These issues are discussed in connection with broader social, legal, and cultural contexts, including Aboriginal and human rights, treaty rights, and legal justice processes. This initiative advocates for policy and legislative changes

In this video, counsellors talk about different strategies, ideas, and approaches to supporting women in their shelter. Scenes of workers talking with women are interspersed throughout the counsellor discussion to give constructive examples of the challenges counsellors face and the application of different techniques to work through them. Uses dramatizations to demonstrate practical ways to implement a feminist, strength-based model of support for women who have experienced violence in an intimate relationship.

On February 25, 2013, 25 organizations, including OAITH, signed an Open Letter to Members of Parliament on the need for a National Housing Stategy to ensure the safety and health of women.

This is a statistical overview of family courses cases involving child custory, access and support arrangements for 2009 - 2010.  It covers separation, divorce, custody, caccess, child and/or spousal support arrangements, child protection and guardianship.

The Court Watch program was undertaken to gain a preliminary understanding of how woman abuse influenced custory and access orders in family court decisions. Findings based on  observations of family court proceedings and analyses of case files reveal a number of key issues relating impact of children on outcomes, inconsistency in custody and access to abusive fathers, inconsistency of how abuser access to children was affected by presence of high-risk indicators, delays or adjournments because of lack of interpretation services, and a lack of information avaialble to women about how to use the family court system in cases of domestic violence.