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Six Ways Campuses Can Collaborate with Community Gender-Based Violence Organizations
As post-secondary institutions (PSIs) look towards a school year where “campus” itself will likely be extended into online spaces, it’s important to consider how gender-based violence will manifest differently, and how prevention efforts will need to adapt. It is important to build relationships with community-based gender-based violence (GBV) organizations i.e. sexual assault centres, violence against women shelters, Indigenous Women and Two-Spirit groups and LGBTQIS2 organizations. Our shared goal of ending gender-based violence requires collaboration between community organizations and PSIs. Here are six ways that gender-based violence organizations and PSIs can work well together:
Home is Not Safe for Everyone: COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts on Gender-Based Violence in Canada
It is easy to assume that our work on campuses to address and prevent gender-based violence will lessen as students return home to self-isolate, however, the reality is that home is not always a safe place for everyone.
Reclaiming Valentine's Day
The Consent Comes First Office works with artist Karen Campos Castillo to create valentines that reclaimed to celebrate our relationship with ourselves, our communities, our friends and our movements.