Upcoming Events and Learning Opportunities
Opportunities to Participate:
| A Living History: The Story of Ontario’s VAW/GBV Movement |
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Learning Network Facebook Live In this Facebook Live, Deborah Sinclair traces the evolution of the Violence Against Women (VAW) movement in Ontario over the past 50 years. Drawing on her research and the voices of 22 trail-blazing activists, she explores the triumphs and challenges that shaped the movement—and the question that continues to echo through time: Are we still a movement, or have we become a sector? Click here to learn more. |
| Preventing Intimate Partner Homicide: Reflections from Members of the DVDRC, Part 1 |
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Learning Network and Knowledge Hub Webinar Co-hosted with the Family Violence Family Law | Awareness to Action (A2A) Project, this webinar features members of Ontario’s Domestic Violence Death Review Committee (DVDRC) — Dr. Carolyn Fraser, Erin Lee, and Eva Zachary. They will share insights from their committee experience and contributions to the most recent DVDRC report. Click here to learn more. |
| Responding to Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Use |
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Learning Network Special Event In this Special Event, Dr. Lorraine Greaves will explore the critical importance of approaches that simultaneously address IPV and SU, rooted in trauma- and violence-informed (TVI) care, and informed by sex-, gender-, and equity-based analyses (SGBA+). Click here to watch. |
| Arts for Creative Healing Communities: Gender-based Violence Work and Prevention with Immigrant and Refugee Families |
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Learning Network and Knowledge Hub Webinar This visual storytelling session captured all the nuances and possibilities of an art-based intervention carried out with dedication to the community. Click here to watch |
| Sharing in the Healing Journey: Insights from an Evaluation of Expressive Arts Programming for Mothers and Children who are Survivors of Violence |
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Knowledge Hub Presents This presentation will share perspectives from mothers, children, and group facilitators about the strengths and opportunities that exist in this approach to programming. Click here to watch |
| Nowhere to Go: Confronting Canada’s Housing Crisis and Advocating for Change for Survivors of Gender Based Violence |
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Learning Network and Knowledge Hub Webinar This webinar will explore the structural roots of Canada’s housing crisis and examine who is most impacted, with a particular focus on survivors of GBV. Click here to watch |
| Strengthening Community Responses to Elder Mistreatment: Innovations, Interventions, and Lessons learned |
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Learning Network and Knowledge Hub Webinar This webinar will explore innovative initiatives aimed at addressing this critical issue, including 3 interventions currently being delivered in Canada. Click here to watch recording |
| Where we've been, Where we're at, Where we're going: History of the Highway of Tears. |
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Knowledge Hub Presents In this webinar, a presenter from Carrier Sekani Family Services, will describe several initiatives that have taken place to raise awareness, make recommendations, and facilitate change. Click here to watch |
| Leveraging Digital Interventions for GBV Prevention and Support |
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Learning Network and Knowledge Hub Webinar Discover 3 new online and digital interventions in Canada for GBV prevention and support. Click here to watch |
| Developing and Implementing a Trauma- and Violence-Informed Approach in Digital Media Literacy Education |
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In this Resource Spotlight presenters from MediaSmarts- Canada's centre for digital media literacy- share key learnings and best practices in implementing a trauma-informed lens in digital media literacy education and facilitation. Click here to watch |
| Respect at Work Website |
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This new website houses research and evidence-based resources to support policy reform and guide prevention and response strategies on harassment and violence at work. Click here to visit. |
| Resources for Evaluating Trauma- and Violence-Informed Practice |
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Resources for Evaluating Trauma- and Violence-Informed Practice This resource provides an overview of over twenty qualitative and quantitative evaluation tools designed to measure trauma- and violence-informed practices of individuals and / or organizations. Click here for PDF Click here for website |
