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Mobilizing knowledge to end gender-based violence

The Learning Network is a knowledge mobilization initiative that bridges the gap between current gender-based violence (GBV) research, practice-based knowledge, and lived experience to enhance the capacity of the GBV sector and movement (e.g., legal help, shelter support, advocacy, education, sexual assault counselling). This knowledge is essential to preventing violence across diverse communities, supporting survivors and allies, and promoting gender equity.                            

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Neurodivergence and Gender-Based Violence: Supporting Neurodivergent Survivors in GBV Contexts

This Brief synthesizes emerging research and survivor-informed perspectives on the intersections between neurodivergence and gender-based violence (GBV). While neurodivergence is often discussed in relation to children and educational contexts, this Brief focuses primarily on the experiences of adult survivors navigating GBV services. Drawing on academic literature, practice insights, and perspectives from neurodivergent survivors, it introduces key concepts related to neurodivergence and neurodiversity.

 

Exploring Neurodivergence, Disability, and Gender-Based Violence: Toward More Affirming and Accessible Practices

This LN/KH Webinar explored the intersections of neurodivergence, disability, and gender-based violence through critical disability studies, story-making, and neurodiversity-affirming approaches. Presented by Dr. Patty Douglas, this session drew on creative and participatory approaches that centre historically excluded perspectives.

 

Drag Pedagogy for Consent Education

Watch Wil Prakash Fujarczuk, an award-winning speaker and educator who has led sexual violence prevention initiatives for over a decade, explore how drag pedagogy can serve as an accessible and engaging entry point into conversations about consent education. Through his consent-educating drag alter ego, Unita Assk, Wil shared how drag pedagogy can make difficult conversations more approachable, celebrate queerness and center queer joy, and more.

 

Online Interventions to Prevent Gender-Based Violence: Building Online-to-Offline Pathways

View the recordings for this Learning Network Resource Spotlight to learn more about RightPlace - an innovative online service and outreach model that connects individuals affected by gender-based violence (GBV) with support services across the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). This webinar is of interest to those who are thinking about how digital and online approaches can support and extend pathways for GBV prevention and support.

 

Considering Children’s Perspectives on Contact with their Father in the Context of Post-Separation Intimate Partner Violence

This webinar presented findings from research on children’s experiences and perspectives regarding contact with their father in the context of post-separation intimate partner violence (IPV). It highlighted the importance of considering children’s views when making decisions about contact with their father and by identifying factors that support their meaningful participation. 

 

Preventing and Responding to Sexual Violence: Centering Children’s Power and Agency in Practice

This Brief offers a reflection-based, practice-informed approach to preventing and responding to sexual violence in ways that restore power to the child. Grounded in the work of Marie‑Vincent—a Québec-based organization that supports children and adolescents who have experienced sexual violence—it shares guiding principles, concrete examples, and relational strategies that practitioners and caregivers can adapt in their own contexts.