Learning Network

Mobilizing knowledge to end gender-based violence

The Learning Network (LN) is a valuable source of evidence-informed resources for individuals, service providers, and organizations working to end violence against women and other forms of gender-based violence (GBV).

                            

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Supporting Survivors with Animals in Contexts of Intimate Partner Violence

This Issue shares how to integrate the human-animal bond in intimate partner violence supports and services for survivors. It identifies the barriers that survivors with animals face in help-seeking and safety planning. Additionally, this Issue offers strategies for trauma- and violence-informed care in supporting survivors and animals with inspiring examples of cross-sectoral collaboration.

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Dance and Consent: Transforming Gender-Based Violence Prevention Efforts

This Facebook Live explores 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 also outlines some of the many benefits of arts-based approaches to consent education for service providers and offers next steps for integrating them into everyday practice.

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Supporting Survivors of GBV and their Animals: Innovative and Collaborative Strategies

How can we enact systemic change to better support survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) and their animals (companion, farmed, and service)? Humane Canada’s ACT Project answers based on their work with survivors of GBV and multisectoral organizations including women’s shelters, anti-violence organizations, veterinary professionals, and animal welfare services. 

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Storytelling for Action: Recognizing and Centering Youth Survivor Voices

In this podcast episode, youth rights advocate Maya Lebrun shares the importance of respecting and centering youth survivor voices in gender-based violence work to better support survivors and their wellbeing.

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Reproductive Coercion Strategies in Intimate and Family Contexts: Experiences of Those Who Have Endured Them

This Webinar focuses on reproductive coercion and is based on the findings of a doctoral thesis conducted within the Research Laboratory on Reproductive Health and Violence led by Sylvie Lévesque (UQAM).

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Beneath the Red Umbrella: Comic Strips as Expressions of Solidarity with Sex Workers

Sex workers face stigma and discrimination that contributes to experiences of gender-based violence and produces barriers to support-seeking for survivors of gender-based violence. This Brief shares work utilizing comic strips to dismantle myths and share accurate knowledge about sex work. Comics are offered as an effective means to tell a story about what sex work is, who does it, why they might do it, and the harms of stigmatization and criminalization.

 

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