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Bringing Violence Prevention to the North

Bringing Violence Prevention to the North

Anqi Shen2017-12-19T17:03:39+00:00May 19, 2016|Empowering girls, Gender-based violence, Impact stories, Sexual abuse, SHE Magazine|

In a classroom in the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories, students leave their books and desks to one side, gathering in a circle in the middle of the room.

They are about to begin a warm-up exercise as part of the Healthy Relationships Plus program developed by the Fourth R, a violence-prevention organization based in London, ON. The Fourth R’s healthy relationships curriculum is already offered in 5,000 schools across Canada. Now, funding from the Canadian Women’s Foundation is helping expand the program into schools in the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.

Making Waves: Ben’s Story

Making Waves: Ben’s Story

Diane Hill2016-05-17T13:09:37+00:00May 17, 2016|Gender-based violence, Impact stories, SHE Magazine|

In high school Ben Lord attended “Making Waves,” a violence prevention program that continues to reverberate through his life. As told to Diane Hill.

In my high school, students who attended the Making Waves violence prevention program put on a play called The Many Faces of Abuse.* I saw it when I was in Grade 9 and got chills. The next year, I attended the program. When I graduated, I came back as a Making Waves facilitator.

The program opened my eyes to a lot of things I hadn’t thought about before, like how a lot of relationship problems are about gender.

Michelle’s Story

Michelle’s Story

Diane Hill2016-04-07T12:47:11+00:00April 7, 2016|Gender-based violence, Impact stories, SHE Magazine, Women’s poverty|

Michelle Lochan had the passion to be an entrepreneur, but raising five children on her own made it tricky. Then she got the right kind of help. As told to Diane Hill.

When you help a woman start her own business, you affect her children too. They want to mirror her independence and they learn to trust their own decisions. Improving her self-sufficiency also means she can leave an abusive husband if necessary, because she has her own income. That is the voice I speak from.

Advocating for women in the criminal justice system

Advocating for women in the criminal justice system

Pamela Johnson2017-12-19T17:10:42+00:00March 31, 2016|Guest bloggers, Impact stories|

This profile was originally published on the Coady International Institute’s website.

For Katherine Alexander, seeking justice for women in the prison system is more than a work obligation.

Alexander, executive director of the Elizabeth Fry Society in Whitehorse, was one of 24 women chosen for the 2015 Canadian Women’s Foundation Leadership Institute at Coady.

Spending at least one day a week at the Whitehorse Correctional Centre and once a month at the Abbotsford Institution, she works to build relationships with the incarcerated women. She advises them of their rights, helping to amplify their voices both inside and outside of the prison. She also works with other women’s services in the territory that help inmates transition back into the community.

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