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FOR HER OWN GOOD
Organization: OAITH - Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses
Published:
Format: Video
Type(s): Manual
Audience(s): Service Providers
Topic(s): Mental Health, VAW Practice
Language(s): English

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.

Final Summary Report Of the Summit to End Violence Against Aboriginal Women
Organization: Ontario Native Women's Association
Published: 2007
Format: Document
Type(s): Report
Audience(s):
Topic(s): Aboriginal, First Nations, Inuit, and Metis Women, Legislation and Policy
Language(s): English

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

Feminist Anti-Violence Counselling Techniques
Organization: OAITH - Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses
Published:
Format: Video
Type(s): Manual
Audience(s): Service Providers
Topic(s): Techniques for Working with Women and Children
Language(s): English

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.

February 8, 2004-Letter to the Standing Committee on Social Policy re: Ontarians with Disabilities Act (Bill 118: Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act)
Organization:
Published: 2004
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy
Audience(s):
Topic(s): Concepts and Analysis, Women with Disabilities
Language(s): English
Open letter to Federal Parliament re: National Housing Strategy
Organization: OAITH - Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses
Published: 2013
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy
Audience(s): Policymakers
Topic(s): Housing and Homelessness
Language(s): English

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.

February 14, 2006-Submission on Bill 210: An Act to Amend the Child and Family Services Act
Organization:
Published: 2006
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy
Audience(s):
Topic(s): Government, Legislation and Policy
Language(s): English
Family court cases involving child custody, access and support arrangements, 2009
Organization: Department of Justice Canada
Published: 2011
Format: Document
Type(s): Government Publication
Audience(s): Researchers
Topic(s): Family Law
Language(s): English

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.

Family Action Court Team (F.A.C.T.) Court Watch Project 2008: Background Paper
Organization: The Woman Abuse Council of Toronto
Published: 2008
Format: Document
Type(s): Report
Audience(s): Advocates, Researchers
Topic(s): Family Law
Language(s): English

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.

 

Falling Through the Gender Gap: How Ontario government policy continues to fail abused women and their children. (1998)
Organization:
Published: 1998
Format: Document
Type(s): Advocacy
Audience(s):
Topic(s): Government, Legislation and Policy
Language(s): English
Fact Sheet: Moving Women out of Violence
Organization: Canadian Women's Foundation (CWF)
Published: 2014
Format: Document
Type(s): Information and Fact Sheets
Audience(s): Educators, Service Providers
Topic(s): Public Education
Language(s): English

This fact sheet provides statistics, definitions, and short answers in response to frequently asked questions about VAW. Topics covered include:

  • Sexual consent
  • Crime rates and VAW in Canada
  • Domestic  rates
  • Types of VAW
  • Causes of VAW
  • Violence against men compared with VAW
  • Why women don't leave abusive relationships
  • Who is at risk
  • Effect on children
  • How to help
  • How can we stop VAW
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