Upcoming Events
Webinar: Recognizing the Importance of Family Violence for Children's Best Interests in Family Law Context
Screening for family violence (FV) is the first step in keeping parents who have experienced FV and their children safer. This webinar will begin with an overview of why family legal professionals should screen for FV, what holds us back and what screening tools will help standardize the process. Moving beyond screening, the panel will introduce a new online assessment guide––the e-SAFeR––that is designed to help family law professionals create parenting plan recommendations that account for FV and forefront the safety of the children and the parent who experienced FV.
Webinar: Basic Income and Gender-Based Violence: Exploring the Transformative Potential of a Guaranteed Livable Basic Income to Support Safety and Autonomy
This session provides an accessible introduction into the world of basic income and what its implementation could mean for people impacted by or at-risk of gender-based violence. Participants will gain insights into the connections between basic income advocacy and anti-violence and gender-equity work, and will be encouraged to consider the impacts of basic income for supporting people’s safety and autonomy.
Event: Sheltering Under Pressure: Frontline Realities of Canada’s VAW Shelters & Transition Houses
This event offers an updated, evidence-based look at how shelters are operating under sustained pressure due to chronic underfunding, aging infrastructure, workforce pressures, and the ongoing housing crisis. This report is accompanied by a series of advocacy tools to help shelters make use of the data in conversations or advocacy with funders and policymakers.
Have you listened to the RESOLVing Violence Podcast yet?
The province of Saskatchewan is home to a vibrant research community and hundreds of organizations and service providers working to prevent, respond to, and assist with recovery from violence and abuse.
Through this podcast, we hope to facilitate that transfer of knowledge from the research community to these applied stakeholders and people with lived experience, to make staying up to date on current research that much more accessible and efficient.
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