Upcoming Events and Learning Opportunities
Opportunities to Participate:
| Digital Platform for Arts Integration in Healthcare and Settlement: Access Alliance Arts for Family Health |
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Knowledge Hub Presents Arts for Family Health, a project of Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services, offers a digital platform to learn about arts-based health promotion approaches. This webinar will introduce resources and tools designed for practitioners, managers, researchers, and academics interested in integrating creative methods into their work. Discover how to navigate the digital platform on best practices for delivering expressive arts programs that are inclusive, culturally responsive, and trauma-informed. |
| AI and GBV, Harms, Impacts and Emerging Practices in Prevention and Response |
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Learning Network Virtual Forum Join the Learning Network’s 2026 Virtual Forum, AI & GBV: Harms, Impacts & Emerging Practices in Prevention & Response. This two-day event will bring together practitioners, researchers, and advocates to examine how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is both contributing to gender-based violence (GBV) and reshaping practice across the GBV and allied sectors. |
| Power and Control: Challenges in Implementing Trauma-Informed Approaches with Youth |
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Learning Network/Knowledge Hub Webinar This presentation explores the practical and systemic challenges involved in implementing trauma-informed approaches (TIAs) in youth settings and draws on findings from doctoral research conducted in residential care settings with youth. While practitioners implementing TIAs seek to fundamentally transform the ways in which we support youth, their efforts are hindered by the persistence of compliance-focused practices, coercive responses in times of crisis, and ongoing difficulties in addressing power dynamics. |
| Supporting Survivors at the Intersection of Mental Health and Gender-Based Violence: Approaches for Practice |
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Learning Network Special Eevnt In this Special Event, Eva Zachary, Executive Director of Muskoka Victim Services, explored the realities, pressures, and possibilities at the intersection of mental health and gender-based violence. Drawing on her experience in crisis intervention, trauma services, and victim advocacy — as well as insights from her participation on provincial committees such as the Domestic Violence Death Review Committee (DVDRC) — she discussed key patterns observed through practice, case reviews, and cross-sector collaboration. 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 |
