Learning Network
Mobilizing knowledge to end gender-based violence
The Learning Network is a knowledge mobilization initiative that bridges the gap between current gender-based violence (GBV) research, practice-based knowledge, and lived experience to enhance the capacity of the GBV sector and movement (e.g., legal help, shelter support, advocacy, education, sexual assault counselling). This knowledge is essential to preventing violence across diverse communities, supporting survivors and allies, and promoting gender equity.
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Meeting Youth Where They Are: Engaging Boys and Young Men in Digital Spaces to Prevent Gender-Based Violence
Recording Available!
This special event brought together three organizations advancing work at the intersection of boys and young men, digital spaces and gender-based violence prevention.
Online Gaming, Online Harms: Supportive Strategies for Building Resilience
Recording Available!
Explore two new free, online, on-demand resources from the Christchurch Call Foundation, created for caring adults to build knowledge, resilience and confidence to support and protect young people against online harms in gaming spaces.
Beyond Bill C-16: Turning Legislative Reform into Survivor Safety
Recording Available!
This webinar explored Bill C-16 through a survivor-centred and systems-change lens, focusing not only on what the Bill proposes, but why these reforms matter, what they could mean for survivors and the GBV sector, and the implementation considerations necessary to translate legislative change into meaningful improvements in survivor safety.
Beyond Her Strength
The Learning Network is pleased to share Beyond Her Strength, a poem by Kuldeep Ahluwalia. Kuldeep Ahluwalia's bravery and persistence made possible the Supreme Court of Canada's landmark recognition of the tort of intimate partner violence.
Supporting Safety Together for Survivors and their Children Navigating Child Welfare
Recording Available!
This webinar guided participants through the findings and calls to action of West Coast LEAF’s Safety Together: Addressing gender-based violence and the family policing system report. Participants were also introduced to new public legal education materials on knowing your rights during a child welfare investigation in British Columbia (BC), which includes a toolkit for lawyers and parents' guide.
The Tort of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) in Canada: The Supreme Court’s Landmark Ruling in Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia, and What it Means for Survivors of IPV
Recording Available!
This webinar looked at the history of the groundbreaking case Ahluwalia v. Ahluwalia and considered what the majority decision of the Supreme Court of Canada means for survivors of intimate partner violence (IPV) in Canada. Designed for non-lawyers, the webinar helped participants understand how the new tort of IPV and the Ahluwalia decision will impact civil and family law cases, and other proceedings in court and beyond.
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