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Project Description

Action ontarienne contre la violence faite aux femmes

Tel: (613) 241-8433

Laurentian University

Francophonie: Training and Best Practices

• Training for staff serving Francophone women, on topics related to violence against women: crisis intervention, legal issues, immigrant women and services available in French.
• Collection and sharing of best practices for working with women with disabilities and child victims and witnesses of violence, as well as involving harassment at work.
• Foundation work to establish an Ontario post-secondary credit program in French on violence against women.

Springtide Resources

Tel: (416) 968-3422  x  30

Family Service Association of Toronto

Breaking New Ground

• Increase awareness, skills and capacity among Ontario professionals and service providers to support women with intellectual disabilities who are abused or at risk of abuse;
• Develop and implement a training model/curriculum that will strengthen the ability of organizations to respond to women with developmental disabilities;
• Based on feedback from these initiatives, produce a video and prepare a document that highlights the “developing practices” for supporting women who live with intellectual disabilities and have experienced abuse.

Equay-wuk (Women’s Group)

Tel: (807) 737-2214

Healthy Families Healthy Nations

• Research and development of a sustainable, culturally sensitive, holistic family violence prevention model and training for service providers in 30 Northwestern Ontario First Nations communities in Equay-wuk’s catchment area.
• Includes needs assessments, community outreach, and the development and delivery of train-the-trainer curriculum and resources.

Legal Aid Ontario

Tel: (416) 979-2352 x 5201

Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic

Domestic Violence Training for Legal Aid Service Providers

• Training for service staff in Legal Aid offices and clinics across the province – as well as lawyers who work in courtrooms, family law lawyers and refugee lawyers – on identifying women who have experienced violence, and protocols and best-practice guidelines to more effectively assist them.
• Includes development and delivery of training sessions as well as materials (background information on domestic violence, guidelines for the effective use of domestic violence tools, referral procedures and templates, and community resource/referral information).

Offord Centre for Child Studies, McMaster University

Tel: (905) 521-2100 x 74287

Interval House of Hamilton (co-lead)

Professional Education for Responding to Violence Against Women (Research Project)

• Research: an Ontario-wide environmental scan of violence-against-women education in the health sector.
• Includes in addition an overview of specific education provided by violence-against-women social and community service organizations.

National Judicial Institute

Tel: (613) 237-1118 x 242

Ontario Court of Justice

Enhancing Judicial Skills in Cases of Violence and Abuse in Intimate Relationships

• Skills-based education on domestic violence and practical tools to enhance the skill of judges from all levels of courts in Ontario who hear violence against women cases;
• Curriculum modules will be delivered at annual and regional judicial conferences.

Ontario Council of Agencies Serving Immigrants (OCASI)

Tel: (416) 322-4950 x  285

METRAC
(Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children)

Prevention Through Intervention

• Training for settlement service providers and any workers who frequently provide services to immigrant, refugee and undocumented victims in front-line and management.
• Focus is on empowering service providers with awareness and knowledge to identify women at risk of violence and make effective referrals, and to streamline inter-agency coordination.

Perinatal Partnership Program of Eastern and Southeastern Ontario (PPPESO)

Tel: (613) 737-2660 x 3245

Best Start: Ontario’s Maternal, Newborn and Early Child Development Resource Centre

Woman Abuse in the Perinatal Period

• Training for health care providers including hospital and health unit staff, community service agencies and members of the professional perinatal care associations, to implement best practice guidelines on the detection and appropriate response to woman abuse in the perinatal period
• Outreach includes training resources, community forums, conference presentations, website information, liaison with academic centres and professional perinatal care associations in Ontario

Shelternet for Abused Women

The Learning Enrichment Foundation

Connecting the Dots Through the Courage to Click

• Technology-focused training workshops and regional conferences throughout Ontario to enhance the overall service delivery of shelters and second-stage housing agencies for abused women and their children
• Focus on enhancing e-services, business planning and leadership knowledge and skills to build ongoing capacity in the sector

Sunnybrook-Osler Centre for Prehospital Care

Tel: (416) 849-2450

Toronto Emergency Medical Services

The Paramedic Response to Domestic Violence

• Development and implementation of training for paramedics to increase awareness, skills and capacity for supporting women who are abused or at risk of abuse.
• Training to be delivered through introductory session and completion of up to eight e-learning scenarios.