Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative

The Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative (CDHPI) is a knowledge hub for information to help inform promising practices in homicide prevention.

[Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative @cdhpi]

Canada's shadow pandemic: Femicide https://t.co/VaPGNMlI5u via @ConversationCA

[Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative @cdhpi]

@LNandKH is #hiring an Indigenous Implementation Coordinator to work with a group of Indigenous and English-speaking project leads/CoP members to establish relationships, identify themes, issues, challenges and promising practices.

Apply today: https://t.co/jU9Nxvjm6t

[Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative @cdhpi]

What challenges has the pandemic brought to seeking support services for survivors of sexual violence?
Survivors of gender-based violence in Ontario typically seek out more than one service, with 39% of survivors using 5 to 7 services.

Click on the photo below for more.

[Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative @cdhpi]

Peter Jaffe says judges have to take #domesticviolence more seriously. “It's a life and death issue that somebody is prepared to abuse their partner and who presents with significant risk factors; that partner may kill the children,” https://t.co/DLbMVR1d5j via @CTVNews
#IPV

[Learning Network (LN) & Knowledge Hub (KH) @LNandKH]

Check out this new infographic released by @CAN_Femicide:

#CallItFemicide 2021 Report
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[Canadian Femicide Observatory 🇨🇦 @CAN_Femicide]

#CallItFemicide #LetsEndFemicide

[ANROWS @ANROWS]

@DawsonMyrna is an expert on social & legal responses to violence against women & children and femicide.
She is Prof at @CSAHS_UoG, Director of @CAN_Femicide and @csslrv, and Co-Director of @cdhpi.
Hear this international leader speak at #ANROWSConf2022: https://t.co/sg9qH7vM8x

[Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative @cdhpi]

Western researchers to develop national anti-violence app  https://t.co/fnOac0Zens via @westernu

[Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative @cdhpi]

Sign the petition to call on the UN to declare December 6 as the International Day to End Femicide. Dec 6 marks the anniversary of the ‘Montreal Massacre' and since 2019, the Global 16 Days Campaign has observed Dec 6 as “Femicide Remembrance Day”: https://t.co/tIOTimipHm

[IRPP @IRPP]

In order to prevent acts of femicide, researchers, advocates, service providers and violence-prevention organizations need access to high quality data on the subject. @csslrv's @DawsonMyrna says that data is currently insufficient. @CAN_Femicide @CSAHS_UoG https://t.co/pN92H8fI9j

[Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative @cdhpi]

U of G Students Curating One-Stop Info Hub to Stem Global Femicide https://t.co/KLUpWCN8b4

[WomenatthecentrE @WomenatcentrE]

This #December6 we wanted to shine light & bring attention to the often forgotten or ignored stories of gendered violence against Black women, girls & gender diverse people.

Share Her Story, Remember Her Name - https://t.co/r1wlqyW9tz

Send Black Love - https://t.co/eu3Lj0e2aH

[Canadian Femicide Observatory 🇨🇦 @CAN_Femicide]

On Dec. 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, we provide preliminary numbers for women & girls killed in Canada in 2021, primarily by men. (1/2)

#CallItFemicide
#LetsEndFemicide
#30YearsOfActivism

[Canadian Femicide Observatory 🇨🇦 @CAN_Femicide]

And, today, along with 14 female victims of Montreal Massacre lost 32 years ago in a mass #femicide, we ask you to remember victims of 2021 and all those women & girls lost before and after Dec. 6, 1989. (2/2)

#CallItFemicide
#LetsEndFemicide
#30YearsOfActivism

[Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative @cdhpi]

'Home is the most dangerous place for women,' but private and public violence are connected https://t.co/M3xwlXQgRk via @ConversationCA

[CSSLRV @csslrv]

Angelika works on various research projects, including the Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative with Vulnerable Populations (@CDHPI).

She presented #CDHPI research on firearms use in domestic homicides at the Canadian Domestic Violence Conference in 2020. (4/6)

[Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative @cdhpi]

#VictimsWeek2021

Today - Free live online event
The Hidden Impacts of COVID-19: Child Maltreatment and the Importance of Resilience and a Survivors' Perspective on Resilience in the Justice Context
November 18th, 2021
12:45 to 3:00 pm EST

https://t.co/WExHAyECCx

[CSSLRV @csslrv]

Each week, the #CSSLRV is profiling its researchers & research.

It's part of celebrating our new, refreshed website (https://t.co/YtBGM3WSyV) which emphasizes #SilenceAllowsViolence.

This week's #CSSLRV profile is Dr. Nicole Jeffrey (see https://t.co/baCY9Rigcr).

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[Matthew Behrens @MatthewBehren11]

During Woman Abuse Prevention Month, Women Who Choose to Live is raising funds for Helen Naslund, a wrongfully jailed abuse survivor and grandmother who is being punished for surviving 27 years of brutal violence, and her family. Please help! https://t.co/TCQcT5mDgb

[Canadian Domestic Homicide Prevention Initiative @cdhpi]

#CDHPI Co-Director, Dr. Jaffe told the inquiry that intimate partner deaths "are the most predictable and preventable of homicides," largely because there are well-researched risk factors. https://t.co/Tb8vHZc5jS