Sector Spotlight

Community Safety Resources for Frontline Workers

This collection of resources aims to provide frontline workers with the tools needed to reduce workplace risks and feel safe in their communities. 

This resource collection will support frontline workers to:

  • Safely engage individuals with mental illness in the community 
  • Gain a better understanding of how to work with clients dealing with mental illness in a safe way
  • Provide community safety and housing supports while minimizing personnel risks

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RESOLVE Manitoba Rural IPV Report

RESOLVE is committed to supporting research that leads to positive results. The work RESOLVE engages in seeks to uncover the causes of violence and map out effective strategies to prevent and end violence.

Responding to Women Who Experience IPV in Rural Municipalities Across the Prairies Final Report 

The University of Manitoba RESOLVE team has recently completed their final research report on Rural Intimate-Partner Violence.

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Accessibility of IPV-related Services in the Prairies: an ArcGIS Story Map

In this story map, RESOLVE Manitoba reviews the accessibility of IPV-related services in the provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba.

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Lakehead University

Lakehead University’s Angela Hovey, Susan Scott, and Lorie Chambers published a chapter in Mothering on the edge: A critical examination of mothering within the child protection system.

Mothering on the edge

Chapter 4 - Is harm reduction safe? Exploring the tensions between shelter staff, mothers and children working or living in shelters.
Written by Hovey, A., Scott, S., & Chambers, L. (2022). 

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Violence Against Women Research

Lakehead University

Canadian Center for Women’s Empowerment

(CCFWE)

The Canadian Center for Women’s Empowerment (CCFWE) is the only national organization in Canada dedicated to fighting Domestic Economic Abuse through system change, advocacy, policy change mentorship, and economic empowerment.

CCFWE’s work is made possible through support and funding from the federal department for Women and Gender Equality (WAGE).

Learn More About CCFWE

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