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This collection of Learning Network resources is designed to synthesize and disseminate knowledge on topics related to Gender-Based Violence (GBV). These resources provide foundational GBV knowledge including commonly used language, important gaps and emerging issues, recent research, and important educational tools and resources.
Our Facebook Lives offer tips and information in a short format (15 minutes). Watch the day of or view the recording here.
Shelter Pulse Database: Building Capacity for Rural Women’s Shelters Across Canada
Presented by: Mary McGuire
This Facebook Live explores how the Shelter Pulse Database enhances rural women’s shelters by providing a centralized database of 74 trauma-informed and inclusive policies and procedures. Through a live demonstration of the database, we'll discuss how this tool reduces administrative burdens, fosters collaboration and feedback, and provides shelters with the ability to tailor each policy and procedure in a way that best suits their needs and operations.
#MaybeNextTime: There Shouldn’t be a Next Time (2024)
Presented by: Joëlle Kabisoso
This presentation explores five essential approaches and best practices for supporting Black women and girls during the disclosure of sexual violence. Additionally, it outlines strategies for designing and delivering responsive services that prioritize their needs and well-being, aiming to shift away from practices that inadvertently re-victimize them. These approaches are crucial for fostering environments where Black women and girls can have equitable access to justice.
Dance and Consent: Transforming Gender-Based Violence Prevention Efforts (2024)
Presented by: Lexi Salt
This Facebook Live will explore Leading Authentically’s consent-based dance workshop entitled Empowered Connections: Consent on the Dance Floor, which equips participants with enhanced skills in consent, healthy communication and effective feedback. The session will also outline some of the many benefits of arts-based approaches to consent education for service providers and offer next steps for integrating them into everyday practice.
Understanding FGM/C to Better Support Survivors: 5 Tips for Service Providers (2023)
Presented by: Sauda Keita
Female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C) is a form of gender-based violence against women and girls rooted in gender inequality. This Facebook Live will provide 5 important tips to help strengthen service providers’ understanding of FGM/C to provide culturally-sensitive, survivor-centred, and trauma-informed responses and better support survivors and their resilience.
Safety Starts Here - The Mulberry Platform (2023)
Presented by: Lauren Hancock
Learn more about mulberryfinder.ca – a new online platform created by The Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses (OAITH). In this Facebook Live (live overview), Lauren provides an introduction to this platform including how gender-based violence (GBV) organizations and services can be listed on mulberry!
Gender-Based Violence in the South Asian Community (2023)
Presented by: Manvir Bhangu
This presentation will touch on the work Laadliyan does in the South Asian community, particularly within the Peel Region with a focus on Gender Based Violence. The presentation will focus on previous research conducted by Laadliyan's team on this issue, a Gender Based Violence toolkit that was created, and the work Laadliyan is doing to combat this issue in their local community.
Moose Hide Campaign Talks Indigenous Masculinity! (2022)
Presented by: Sage Lacerte
Gain insight on Indigenous Masculinities with 5 actionable tools to get you mobilized within your family, community, and across Turtle Island! This session explores the intersectional nature of Indigenous masculinity. Building healthier masculinities is a important step in standing up against violence towards women and children.
5 Tips to Support Inclusion of 2SLGBTQI+ Seniors (2022)
Presented by: leZlie lee kam
This Facebook Live will focus on promoting inclusion of 2SLGBTQI+ seniors in the gender-based violence sector and allied sectors. It will discuss the 2SLGBTQI+ Tool Kit: Leading & Learning with Pride by the City of Toronto.
5 Lessons Learned to Better Support Queer and Trans Women in Canada (2021)
Presented by: Tatiana Ferguson
In this Facebook Live, Tatiana reflects on how the gender-based violence sector can embrace change and adapt to new realities to be more inclusive of Queer and Trans women in Canada.
Responding to Nonconsensual Intimate Image Distribution in Canada (2021)
Presented by: Dr. Alexa Dodge
In this presentation, Dr. Alexa Dodge discusses some of the options and opportunities for responding to nonconsensual intimate image distribution outside of the criminal law.
More Than A Footnote: Disability and Gender-Based Violence (2021)
Presented by: Sophia Sahrane
This presentation centers accessibility within the gender-based violence sector, as opposed to it being just a footnote.
Intimate Partner Violence on Campus (2020)
Intimate partner violence on campus is a serious issue—so why is there so little discussion about it? Eternity will read from her new bestselling memoir They Said This Would Be Fun and discuss the prevalence of IPV on campus—and how universities can address it.
All our resources are open-access and can be shared (e.g., linked, downloaded and sent) or cited with credit. If you would like to adapt and/or edit, translate, or embed/upload our content on your website/training materials (e.g., Webinar video), please email us at gbvln@uwo.ca so that we can work together to do so.
