Category: Updates

Are you interested in enhancing the skills to recognize and respond to gender-based violence? The Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women & Children is offering a live facilitated learning program, Capability-based courses: Developing skills to recognize and respond to gender-based violence! Registration for a new course is open: Understanding and Responding to Young People […]

Albertans can contact the Family Violence Info Line anonymously and confidentially 24/7 at 310-1818 to get information and referrals to support. (403)-310-1818 to Call, Text or Chat Alberta’s Minister of Children and Family Services, Searle Turton, wrote a blog reminding all Albertans that they can call the Family Violence Info Line at 310-1818, any day or time, […]

The Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters’ newest report shines a light on the impact of COVID’s “shadow pandemic” on Alberta’s domestic abuse survivors and the shelters that support them. Featuring the voices of survivors and service providers from across Alberta, it is one of the most comprehensive reports to date of how the unique conditions created […]

In an interview with CTV News, Dr. Nicole Letourneau, AVA Scientific Director and Director of RESOLVE Alberta, discusses the concerning rise in intimate partner violence rates in Canada, particularly in the Prairie provinces, and the RESOLVE Network’s call to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic in Alberta, Manitoba and Saskatchewan. To watch the interview, click […]

From Research to Action: Transforming Sexual Violence Education in Saskatchewan About this episode: AVA’s Women’s and Girls’ Health Hub has partnered with RESOLVE Saskatchewan on their newest podcast episode. In this episode, members of the Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan (SASS) discuss their work on the Saskatchewan Sexual Violence Education Initiative (SSVE). SSVE is a […]

Join the AVA National Health Research Training Platform, the AVA Women’s and Girls’ Health Hub and our many academic and community partners in celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of Women and Girls. Let’s work together towards a world that is diverse, equitable, inclusive and free of violence and abuse for all women, […]

The Alberta Ministry of Children and Family Services is running a family violence prevention public awareness campaign to bring awareness to the Family Violence Info Line for survivors and bystanders of family violence. (403)-310-1818 Call, Text or Chat Whether reaching out for themselves or on behalf of someone they care about, people often feel scared […]

On average, one woman or girl is killed every other day, somewhere in our country, mostly by men. Every week, one woman is killed by her male partner (Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, 2024). Of the 1,223 domestic violence homicide victims between 2009 to 2022, 79% were women and girls (Statistics Canada, 2023). […]

Dr. Mary Hampton, former Director of RESOLVE Saskatchewan, is being remembered by her family, friends and colleagues as well as the many others whose lives she touched through her work as a psychologist and community-based researcher. Dr. Hampton and her work has made significant contributions in the areas of gender-based violence, trauma and Women’s health […]

A woman in Canada is killed by her domestic partner every 6 days. Last week we saw an all too familiar headline in the Calgary news: A woman was killed by her former husband outside an elementary school, despite taking all the right steps to protect herself and her children. As family, friends and a community […]