On Gender-based Violence

This week Caitlin Plant, Program Manager at DCO and Katelyn Doyle, Communications and Marketing Manager at DCO are talking about gender-based violence in Canada, and how we can best support those calling about gender-based violence. Resources mentioned in this weeks podcast can be found here:

National support resources from the Canadian Women’s Foundation:
https://canadianwomen.org/support-services/
Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, “#CallItFemicide:
Understanding sex/gender-related killings of women and girls in Canada, 2018-2022”:
https://femicideincanada.ca/callitfemicide2018-2022.pdf
“Ontario-STANDS: Standing Together Against gender-based violence Now through
Decisive actions, prevention, empowerment and Supports”:
https://www.ontario.ca/page/ontario-stands-standing-together-against-gender-basedviolence-now-through-decisive-actions-prevention-empowerment-supports
“Celebrating International Women’s Day” from Distress and Crisis Ontario’s blog:
https://www.dcontario.org/celebrating-international-womens-day/

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