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Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence

The Centre for the Study of Social and Legal Responses to Violence was established in 2005 with a focus on understanding the impacts of social and legal responses to violence, specifically various forms of violence against women including intimate partner violence and sexual violence. Through systematic and rigorous research, the Centre is working to create, mobilize, and promote new and existing knowledge about effective responses to violence. The Centre’s objective is to inform public policy that seeks to reduce and prevent violence and sustain violence prevention research in the future. Dr. Myrna Dawson is the Director of the Centre. She is a Canada Research Chair in Public Policy in Criminal Justice and an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Guelph.

The DisAbled Women’s Network Canada-Réseau d'Action des Femmes Handicapées du Canada (DAWN-RAFH)

DAWN-RAFH was founded in 1985 with the mission to end the poverty, isolation, discrimination and violence experienced by women with disAbilities and Deaf women in Canada. DAWN-RAFH works together with the women’s movement on issues that affect all women and to assist the movement in becoming more accessible to women with disAbilities and Deaf women. DAWN-RAFH provides research, outreach, and resources and acts as the voice of women with disAbilities and Deaf women in Canada.

Domestic Violence: Is There a Risk of Death? Neighbours, Friends & Families

The Neighbours, Friends & Families (NFF) campaign helps people to recognize the signs of woman abuse and learn how to provide support to an at-risk woman or engage with a man who uses abusive behaviours in order to encourage him to seek help. The campaign provides educational resources by way of websites, handbooks, videos, public service announcements, brochures, and training. The NFF website contains an informative page on the risk for lethality in the context of intimate partner violence (i.e., domestic homicide). This page provides an overview of the risk factors associated with domestic homicide; steps for an at-risk woman to safely leave an abusive relationship; information on how to support a woman in an abusive relationship; tips for recognizing, intervening, and preventing woman abuse at work; and other helpful resources.

Proactive Resolutions

Proactive Resolutions works with organizations to build respectful workplaces. Their products help to prevent conflict, repair relationships that have been harmed by conflict, and protect people whose health and safety is threatened by conflict. Proactive Resolutions operates using standardized, evidence-based and integrated programs.

Provincial Caring Partnerships Committee (New Brunswick)

Caring Partnerships is a network of New Brunswick communities that are taking grassroots action to inform and educate the public about family violence issues and solutions. Each community has created partnerships among local groups, businesses, service clubs, social agencies and individuals who are concerned about family violence and its insidious and widespread affects throughout society. The website provides information on family violence; conference reports and presentations; newsletters; and tools and guides for communities to start their own family violence awareness and prevention projects.

Spot the Signs - Jocelyn Coupal Domestic Violence Consultant and Speaker

Jocelyn Coupal develops and delivers innovative training and strategies that help individuals, communities and professionals to successfully address domestic violence and significantly reduce or eliminate domestic homicides. She was responsible for designing, establishing and managing the Langley Project, an innovative project that examined the impact of a collaborative best practices approach to the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence cases.

United States

Lethality Assessment Tools: A Critical Analysis (VAWnet.org)

This article begins with a review of lethality assessment tools, as well as the pertinent research into domestic homicide. The authors critique this information and suggest that these instruments are more useful as a means of identifying future dangerousness rather than precisely predicting lethal outcomes.

National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative (United States)

The National Domestic Violence Fatality Review Initiative (NDVFRI) provides technical assistance for reviewing domestic violence related deaths with the underlying objectives of preventing these types of deaths in the future; preserving the safety of victims/survivors; and holding both the perpetrators of domestic violence and the multiple agencies and organizations that come into contact with the families accountable. The website offers information resources, trainings, video and teleconferences, newsletters, and reports from national and international domestic violence death review committees. The NDVFRI served as the inspiration for the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative.

Proactive Resolutions

International

Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (United Kingdom)

Advocacy After Fatal Domestic Abuse (AAFDA) was formed in 2008 in memoriam of Julia and Will Pemberton whose tragic murders prompted one of the first most comprehensive domestic violence death reviews in the U.K. On November 18, 2003, Alan Pemberton shot and killed William, his 17-year old son, and Julia, his wife, before turning the gun on himself. Julia had informed Alan in 2002 that she wanted to end their marriage due to Alan’s emotional and psychological abuse. The goals of AAFDA are to help those left behind, increase community awareness of domestic violence and risk factors, help agencies improve their work on preventing domestic violence, and to help improve the way these fatalities are reviewed. AAFDA provides information, guidance, support and advocacy to families who are experiencing domestic violence or who have had loved ones killed in the context of domestic violence. The AAFDA also provides public education to raise awareness of domestic violence and opportunities for safe interventions and training to help improve services and conduct effective homicide reviews.

Australian Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse

The Australian Domestic & Family Violence Clearinghouse provides an extensive up-to-date database of publications, videos, webinars, and other resources on domestic and family violence to support service delivery and policy development. The database primarily includes Australian peer reviewed articles, government reports, practice-based publications, and some key international articles. Brief consultations are provided to help users navigate through the database.

Domestic Violence and Abuse (Home Office United Kingdom)

This website developed by the UK government provides thorough information in regards to domestic violence and abuse, coercive control, and protection notices. The website describes the new ‘domestic violence disclosure scheme’ that provides individuals with the right to ask police to check whether a new or existing intimate partner has a violent past. Police can disclose this information if they find that an individual may be at risk of experiencing domestic violence. Agencies are also able to apply for a disclosure if it is believed that an individual is at risk. This website also provides guidance and resources for practitioners to conduct a domestic homicide review including a ‘domestic homicide report guide’, statutory guidance for conducting reviews, a training package, criteria for considering domestic homicide review reports, and lessons learned.

Health Quality & Safety Commission New Zealand - Family Violence Death Review Committee

The focus of the Family Violence Death Review Committee (FVDRC) is to reduce deaths that occur in the context of family violence by reviewing and reporting family violence-related deaths to the Health Quality & Safety Commission and developing strategies for prevention. The FVDRC aims to collect a standard set of information on every family violence death. Local and national review of this information helps identify patterns and trends in family violence-related deaths over time, as well as policy and practice improvements that can contribute to the reduction and prevention of these deaths.

New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse

The New Zealand Family Violence Clearinghouse (NZFVC) is the national centre for collecting and disseminating information about domestic and family violence in Aotearoa, New Zealand. The website provides information, resources, newsletters, and fact sheets to assist individuals working towards the elimination of family violence.