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Course curriculum

  • 1

    Welcome!

  • 2

    Unit 1: Introduction

    • What's In a Name?

    • Violence Agaisnt Women

    • Few Considerations

    • Languages that Reflect

    • How Common is Violence Against Women in Canada?

    • Women Who Have Stayed in Transition Houses

    • Measuring Violence Against Women and Understanding Statistics

    • How This Relates to Your Practice?

    • Unit 1 Resource and Reference
  • 3

    Unit 2: Where We Have Been and How We Got Here

    • One Short History of Feminism In Canada

    • History of the Violence Against Women Movement

    • Transition Houses in Canada

    • Are you a Feminist?

    • Personal Reflection

    • Finding Inspiration

    • Who Inspires you?

    • Unit 2 Resource and Reference
  • 4

    Unit 3: Feminist Principles to Guide Our Practices

    • What Are Promising Principles?

    • What Do Promising Feminist and Woman-centred Principles Look Like in Practice?

    • Women Accessing Services

    • Challenges of Delivering Feminist Services

    • Structure of Power within Transition Houses

    • Continuum of Care

    • Personal Reflections

    • Unit 3 Resource and Reference
  • 5

    Unit 4: Systemic Responses to Violence Against Women

    • Violence Against Women, a Systemic Problem, Experienced Individually

    • Systems and VAW

    • Case Study

    • Policies and Practices within Systems

    • Societal Stereotypes & Women Who Experience Violence

    • The Legacy of Colonization and Residential Schools

    • The Indian Act – Legislated Racism (1876-present)

    • Residential Schools

    • Abused Mothers Stuck in an Impossible Place

    • The Child Protection System

    • Language and Systems of Violence

    • The Tree of Violence

    • The Race To Innocence

    • Personal Reflection

    • Unit 4 Resource and Reference
  • 6

    Unit 5: Beyond Gender: Other Forms of Oppression

    • We are More than the Sum of Our Parts

    • The Power Flower

    • Who Said It Was Simple

    • Case Studies

    • Sarah's Story

    • Britney's Story

    • Grace's Story

    • Carmen's Story

    • Four Women Fleeing Violence

    • Education on Trans Access to Transition Houses

    • Terms Defined

    • Questions to Consider

    • Intersectionality

    • Intersecting Identities: On the Ground

    • Unit 5 Resource and Reference
  • 7

    Unit 6: Personal Effects of Violence Against Women

    • Overview of Personal Effects of Violence Against Women

    • Social Responses to Women Who Experiences Violence

    • Violence Against Older Women

    • You’ve Been with Him How Long?

    • Ageism

    • Traumatic Brain Injury

    • Common Problems Following Brain Injury

    • How This Affects Your Practice

    • Case Study

    • Burn Out?

    • Alternative Understanding of "Burnout"

    • Implications for Practice

    • Personal Reflection

    • Unit 6 Resource and Reference

    • Collective Ethics as a Path to Resisting Burnout
  • 8

    Unit 7: Socio-economic Causes and Effects of Violence Against Women

    • The Socio-economic relationship to Violence Against Women

    • Geographic Locations and VAW

    • Economic Control and Abuse

    • Case Study: Economic Abuse

    • How This Relates to Your Practice

    • How to Support Women To Address Financial Barriers?

    • Unit 7 Resource and Reference
  • 9

    Unit 8: Intersections of Violence, Mental Wellness, and Substance Use

    • Connecting Violence, Mental Wellness and Substance Abuse

    • Changing Our Language

    • Woman-Centered Approaches to Mental Wellness & Substance Use

    • Normal Responses to Experiences of Violence

    • Supporting Women in Practice

    • Assumptions About Behaviours

    • Barriers to Service

    • Addressing Staff Concerns

    • Implications for Policies and Practices

    • Unit 8 Resource and Reference
  • 10

    Unit 9: Children & Youth: Exposure to Violence Against Women

    • What is Exposure to Violence?

    • How Common Is It?

    • Understanding Children and Youth Exposed to Violence

    • Coercive Control Tactics On A Mother

    • Myths About Violence Against Women and Children

    • How This Relates to Your Practice

    • Working with Mothers

    • How Can You Support Mothers?

    • Helping Mothers Fleeing Violence to Use Positive Discipline

    • Supporting Mothers with Babies

    • Is Exposure to Violence Child Maltreatment?

    • Child Protection: How the Violence Against Women Sector Addresses Duty to Report?

    • Unit 9 Resource and Reference

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