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The National Clearinghouse on Family Violence E-Bulletin is a quarterly newsletter for those interested in family violence prevention. It is produced by the Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) on behalf of the Family Violence Initiative (FVI) of the Government of Canada. We want to hear from you! Please send your comments and feedback to our editor at: 
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Feature Article: Family Violence and the Law: Train-the-Trainer The Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick (PLEIS-NB), in partnership with New Brunswick’s Women’s Issues Branch - Executive Council Office, has developed a training program that explores various social, economic, criminal law and family law issues related to family violence. The goal of the training is to assist service providers, particularly those in rural areas who may not have easy access to information and resources. It provides accurate and appropriate law information and gives service providers and community helpers the tools and confidence to discuss law related issues. The project was funded by the Department of Justice Canada and piloted in seven New Brunswick communities in 2005-2006. The response to the training has been extremely positive and a formal evaluation has established it as “better practice” in family violence prevention and community capacity building. For more information visit: http://www.legal-info-legale.nb.ca/showpub.asp?id=140&langid=1
The NCFV offers over 130 publications, including overview papers, reports, discussion papers and handbooks on family violence issues. To preview our most recent publications, please see our What's New page. NCFV publications are available free of charge, in hard copy or online, in English and French and in alternative formats. To order, please visit our Web site or contact us.
The NCFV provides an extensive library reference collection, housed in the Health Canada Departmental Library. The following books may be borrowed through an interlibrary loan through your local public, academic or institutional library. Please contact the NCFV for more information or visit our Web site: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/lib-eng.php Resources on Family Violence in Rural and Remote Communities:Making family violence law information available to people in rural areas: an inventory of promising practices, by Deborah Doherty; Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence. Ottawa: Justice Canada, 2002, 58 p. Understanding abuse: partnering for change, by Mary Lou Stirling & Catherine Anne Cameron. Violence in the family: social work readings and research from Northern and rural Canada, edited by Keith Brownlee & John R. Graham. Toronto: Canadian Scholars Press, 2005, 183 p. [Call no.: ncfv/HV6626.23/C3/V795/2005] "Separation/divorce sexual assault: the contribution of male support," by Walter S. DeKeseredy, Martin D. Schwartz et al. Feminist Criminology 1, 3 (July 2006): 228-250. Sexual assault during and after separation/divorce: an exploratory study, by Walter S. Dekeseredy. Rockville, MD: U.S. National Institute of Justice, Document No.: 217591, Award no. 2002-WG-BX-0004, 2007, 145 p. Domestic violence: a primary care issue for rural women, by Linda Chamberlain. Domestic violence and the experiences of rural women in East Central Saskatchewan, by D.J.F. Martz & D. Bryson Saraurer; Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence (Canada). Winnipeg: Prairie Women's Health Centre of Excellence, 2001, 33 p. Moving toward safety: responding to family violence in Aboriginal and northern communities of Labrador, by Kimberly Dreaddy for the Provincial Association Against Family Violence. St. John's : Govt. of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2002, 62 p. Research Report: Ontario Rural Woman Abuse Study (ORWAS) final report, by Lorri Biesenthal & Lynne Dee Sproule; Community Abuse Program of Rural Ontario (CAPRO). Ottawa: Dept. of Justice Canada, 2000, 77 p. [Call no.: ncfv/HV6626.23/.C2.O5/B589rpt/2000] Responding to wife abuse in farm and rural communities : searching for solutions that work, SIPP Public Policy Paper No. 10, by Jeannie Hornosty & Deborah Doherty. Regina: University of Regina. Saskatchewan Public Policy Institute, 2002, 36 p. A vague and dangerous dance: the politics of justice for domestic assault victims in a rural county, by Marilyn Struthers, London: Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children, 2001, 44 p. Available: http://www.crvawc.ca/docs/pub_struthers2001.pdf New to the Library Reference Collection: The challenge of children's rights in Canada, by Katherine Covell & R. Brian Howe, Family mediation and collaborative practice handbook. 4th ed., by Barbara Landau, Lorne H. Wolfson, & Niki Landau, Markham, ON : LexisNexis Canada/Butterworths, 2005, 573 p. [call no.: ncfv/HQ838/L253/2005] Preventing injuries and violence: a guide for ministries of health, by The World Health Organization, Geneva : The Organization, 2007, 35 p. Available online: http://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/publications/injury Will the circle be unbroken? Aboriginal communities, restorative justice and the challenge of conflict and change, by E. Jane Dickon-Gilmore & Carol La Prairie, Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2005, 268 p. [call no.: ncfv/E78.C2/D554/2005] Women who perpetrate relationship violence: moving beyond political correctness, by Frederick P. Buttell & Michelle Mohr Carney, Binghampton, NY: Haworth, 2005, 130 p. [call no.: ncfv/HV6626.25/W872/2005] In collaboration with the National Film Board of Canada, the NCFV offers a vast collection of videos that address family violence. Videos may be borrowed through NFB partner public libraries across Canada or through an interlibrary loan through your local public, academic or institutional library. To obtain a complete list of videos, libraries and distributors, please contact us or vist our online video catalogue. Recent additions to the Video Collection: Finding Dawn Wards of the Crown Sheldon: A Story of Human Courage
October 9-11, 2007, Crime Reduction: Exploring Leading Practices International Conference, Banff, AB October 15, 2007, World Rural Women’s Day October 18–20, 2007, Complexities and Diversities: Creating Change in a Global Context, 15th International Nursing Conference of the Nursing Network on Violence against Women International (NNVAWI), London, ON October 25-26, 2007, Family Assessment and Intervention Training and Certification: Clinical Applications to Trauma, Child Abuse and Violence Risk Assessment, 25th Anniversary National Conference, Canadian Association of School Social Workers and Attendance Counsellors, Saskatoon, SK October 25–28, 2007, Relief, Recovery, and Restoration: Helping Men Heal from Sexual Abuse, MaleSurvivor 2007 International Conference, New York, USA November 5–6, 2007, 5th Manitoba Provincial Conference on Family Violence Prevention, Manitoba Association of Family Violence Workers, Winnipeg, MB November 8-10, 2007, Canadian Conference on Elder Law, Vancouver, BC November 11-13, 2007, Canadian Injury Prevention and Safety Promotion Conference, Toronto, ON November 18-21, 2007, XIth ISPCAN European Regional Conference on Child Abuse and Neglect, Lisbon, Portugal
Status of Women Canada Status of Women Canada is the federal government agency working to promote the full participation of women in the economic, social and cultural life of Canada. The Minister of Canadian Heritage and Status of Women recently announced a new funding mechanism for the Women's Program. Beginning April 1, 2007, the Women's Program has two components: the Women's Community Fund and the Women's Partnership Fund. The newly created Women's Partnership Fund is for collaborative projects that involve non-governmental organizations in partnership with public institutions and other levels of government. The objective of the fund is to build partnerships between Status of Women Canada, eligible non-governmental organizations and public institutions in addressing the economic, social and cultural situation of women. The expected short-term outcome of this component is: "increased engagement by other federal departments, levels of government, NGOs and the private sector through partnership projects that directly impact the economic, social and cultural situation of women." Information Guide
Introducing Dr. Deborah Doherty, Canadian Family Violence Researcher Deborah Doherty, Ph.D., is the Executive Director of the Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick (PLEIS-NB). Dr. Doherty has a longstanding commitment to participatory action research and to addressing family violence, particularly the unique barriers and challenges faced by rural women. In the 1990s she conducted family law and family violence information needs assessments of rural women in New Brunswick for Justice Canada. As acting director of the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research in 2002, she prepared an inventory for Justice Canada of promising practices called, Making Family Violence Law Information Available to People in Rural Areas. Dr. Doherty has been conducting family violence research for over ten years, making countless presentations as well as co-authoring articles on abused rural and farm women. Dr. Doherty is currently co-principal investigator on three family violence research teams. One team is examining the nature and extent of firearms misuse in family violence situations in rural homes; the other is looking at health services responses to abused rural women in the Tantramar region of New Brunswick; and the third is an evaluation of a toolkit and website dealing with family violence and the workplace. Dr. Doherty has developed numerous family violence materials for PLEIS-NB over the past 15 years. In 2005, for example, she created a training session on family violence and the law which educates service providers on the law information issues confronted by rural women. This past year, she established a partnership between PLEIS-NB and Gignoo Transition House (the Aboriginal women’s transition house in New Brunswick) to create a culturally sensitive bilingual family violence prevention toolkit and website for Aboriginal people called The Healing Journey. Dr. Doherty occasionally teaches university courses on family violence and the law and she sits on numerous family violence committees. As a member of the New Brunswick Silent Witness Committee, she also researches and publishes on factors contributing to domestic homicide risk in New Brunswick with a focus on the factors associated with living in rural areas. The Prairie Women’s Health Centre of Excellence (PWHCE) is one of the Centres of Excellence for Women’s Health supported by the Bureau of Women's Health and Gender Analysis at Health Canada. The Centres are dedicated to improving the health status of Canadian women by supporting policy-oriented and community-based research and analysis on the social and other determinants of women’s health. PWHCE’s goal is to improve the health of women in Manitoba and Saskatchewan by making health and social systems more responsive to women’s and girls’ health and well being. The health of women living in rural, remote & northern communities is one priority area of focus. Recently, the PWHCE funded Rural and Remote Women and the Kirby-Keon Report on Mental Health: A Preliminary Gender-Place Analysis by Jayne Melville Whyte with Joanne Havelock. This publication examines the Senate report titled Out of the Shadows at Last with a gender-place lens focused on women living in rural and remote areas in Saskatchewan.The NCFV’s November E-bulletin will focus on family violence and the justice response. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * PASS IT ON: Please feel free to forward this E-Bulletin to a friend or colleague. Past bulletins can be viewed and searched on our website: http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/ncfv-cnivf/EB/eb-archives-eng.php To subscribe or unsubscribe: National Clearinghouse on Family Violence: Telephone 1-800-267-1291 or (613) 957-2938; TTY 1-800-465-7735 or 613-952-6396; Fax (613) 941-8930; Web site http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/nc-cn; e-mail ncfv-cnivf@phac-aspc.gc.ca |
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