Resource collection

Capacity and substitute decision-making resources

Grey Bruce Community Legal Clinic has created a collection of resources to help people understand capacity to make decisions and the substitute decision making process. These include:

• Capacity to make decisions about property in Ontario
• Capacity to make decisions about personal care in Ontario
• Information about...

Working Together to End Abuse online course

Neighbours, Friends and Families has updated their free online course Working Together to End Abuse. The course helps people:

• understand what intimate partner violence (IPV) is
• recognize when a person may be experiencing IPV
• identify controlling behaviour
• take action to support people experiencing IPV

Collecting and Presenting Evidence in Family Court: A Guide for Survivors

Luke’s Place recently produced Collecting and Presenting Evidence in Family Court: A Guide for Survivors.

The guide includes:

• a checklist for gathering evidence
• tips on how to organize evidence effectively
• information on how to present information

Supporting 2SLGBTQ+ Indigenous people with lived experience of gender-based violence

The Native Women’s Association of Canada has created Restoring the Circle, a free online training program for service providers. The goal is to help them provide trauma-informed, culturally safe, and intersectional services for, to, and with 2SLGBTQ+ Indigenous people.

Prevention and Response on Economic Abuse

Factsheets for survivors, service providers, and bank staff. The fact sheet for survivors is available in English, French, Arabic, Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu.

Are you a service provider? Learn about economic abuse

A learning guide to help service providers identify and address the economic abuse that survivors of gender-based violence may experience.

Economic Abuse Screening Tool (EAST): A toolkit for social service providers

This is a screening tool to assist shelter staff in identifying clients who have experienced Economic Abuse.

Defamation Law and Gender-Based Violence in Canada: A Primer for Survivors and Service Providers

A primer for survivors of gender-based violence and service providers on how defamation law is used to hurt survivors in Canada. It also recommends things people can do to challenge the use of defamation lawsuits to harm survivors of gender-based violence.

The law and parenting arrangements after separation toolkit

If you are a woman with children and you are leaving a relationship in which your partner has been abusive to you, this toolkit will help you seek safe arrangements for the children.

Teaching your kids to be safe: a post-separation checklist

This is a checklist that parents separating because of domestic violence can use to teach their kids how to stay safe.