• Help for Assaulted Women & Women in Crisis
  
• Pamphlets, Posters, Brochures on Sexual Assault
  
• Resources from OWD and Your Community
  
• Girls and Boys, Young Women & Young Men
  
• Other Sexual Assault Awareness/Prevention Campaigns
  
• Information On Drug-Induced Sexual Assault (Date Rape Drugs)
  
• Survivors
• Public Education Resources
• Events for Sexual Assault Prevention Month

Help for Assulted Women & Women in Crisis

Includes links to local shelters, sexual assault centres, sexual assault/domestic violence care and treatment centres, and province-wide crisis lines. Also has links to housing resources, legal services, health services, settlement resources, children’s services, financial planning, career counselling and training, as well as other services.

Help for Assaulted Women & Women in Crisis

Pamphlets, Posters, Brochures on Sexual Assault

METRAC (the Metropolitan Action Committee on Violence Against Women and Children), with support from the Ontario Women’s Directorate, has reproduced a selection of popular violence prevention materials from various agencies across Ontario. To download or order these materials, please see: www.metrac.org/programs/info/prevent.htm

Resources From OWD and Your Community!

The Ontario Women’s Directorate Website has worked with people in Ontario’s communities to bring you innovative resources to address sexual violence.

Neighbours, Friends and Families
A province-wide campaign to raise awareness of the signs of woman abuse so that people who are close to an at-risk woman or an abusive man can help.

Equality Rules
A bilingual and accessible website for 8-14 year-olds to learn the skills needed to develop healthy equal relationships, and to recognize negative behaviours and attitudes that perpetuate violence against girls and women.

The Love You Give
A hip-hop music video which promotes healthy equal relationships among youth. Created by Minwaashin Lodge/Aboriginal Women’s Support Centre.

Girls & Boys, Young Women & Young Men

Whether you’re talking about it with your friends, your classmates, your children, local politicians or local media, these tools will help clear up some of the myths around sexual violence and suggest some things you can do to help put an end to violence against women.

Sexual Assault: What Every Girl and Woman Should Know
A resource in our Youth Zone, developed for girls and women between the ages of 17 and 25.

Preventing Sexual Violence: Let's Talk About It
A Teen-friendly Guide on Preventing Sexual Violence
A resource in our Youth Zone, designed for teens between the ages of 15 and 18. Has a special section called Advice for Guys, explaining how young men can get involved in ending violence against women.

Harassment Hurts: Preventing Sexual Harassment at School and Work
A resource in our Youth Zone, designed to educate teens about sexual harassment and its prevention.

Services for Youth
Includes helpline information and valuable resources on dating and relationship violence for young women and men. 

Other Sexual Assault Awareness/Prevention Campaigns

Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres
Work for the prevention and eradication of sexual assault, including rape. 

Ontario Network of Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence Care and Treatment Centres
The Ontario Network of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Care and Treatment Centres exists to increase networking and support among Centres in order to establish standardization in service provision, and to increase educational opportunities among service providers.

White Ribbon Campaign
Men working to end men’s violence against women. Information on international public education campaigns and resources.

Project Respect
A prevention program for youth ages 14 to 19 that aims to stop sexual violence, particularly acquaintance assault. Personal stories from youth and information on how to get help.

Family Violence Prevention Fund: See It and Stop It Campaign (US)
Information on warning signs, ways to help a victim and an abuser, and toolkit with brainstorming activities and discussions.

RAINN – Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (US)
Information on how to prevent sexual assault, recovery, and effects of sexual assault. Definitions and characteristics of types of sexual assault.

University of Rochester’s Men Against Sexual Assault (US)
Advice for men and women, and what men can do to prevent sexual assault.

Men Can Stop Rape (US)
Information for male youth to prevent men’s violence against women. Downloadable information sheets on masculinity and athletes, rape and racism, what young men can do.

Information on Drug-Induced Sexual Assault (Date Rape Drugs)

Rohypnol: the Latest Rape Drug
From the University of Toronto

Do You Know... Rohypnol
From the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health

Survivors

Recovery Canada – The Wellness Network
A place where survivors of child sexual abuse and sexual assault support and help one another.