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Bathurst Finch Women’s Safe from Violence Progress and Partnerships Meeting

Bathurst Finch Women’s Safe from Violence Progress and Partnerships Meeting. Women’s Safe from Violence Project. Enhance responsiveness and support to women experiencing or at risk of domestic violence Build a safer, more empowering community for women in Bathurst Finch.

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Bathurst Finch Women’s Safe from Violence Progress and Partnerships Meeting

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  1. Bathurst Finch Women’s Safe from Violence Progress and Partnerships Meeting

  2. Women’s Safe from Violence Project • Enhance responsiveness and support to women experiencing or at risk of domestic violence • Build a safer, more empowering community for women in Bathurst Finch

  3. This project is supported by the Law Foundation of Ontario under the Access to Justice Fund and the City of Toronto through the Community Safety Investment Program.

  4. Objectives • To review some highlights of the project to date. • To present emerging safety from violence issues. • To consider some practical local responses. • To shape actions to include in Year 2.

  5. Agenda Introductions and Warm-up Presentation of Project Highlights • Activities, Tools and Resources • Learnings • Big Issues Small Group Exercise - Responses to Issues • Creating ideas and actions • Adding to ideas and actions developed by others Break Whole Group Exercise on Shaping Women’s Safety Projects for Year 2 • Strengths, Challenges, Opportunities, Partners Wrap-up

  6. Warm-up • Name • Organization/community you're connected to • A sentence about your interest in women’s safety from violence.

  7. Activities, Tools and Resources • Community Engagement Facilitators • Legal Rights Training for Workers and Leaders • Community Worker First Response Protocol • Dialogue Sessions on Cultural Issues • Presentations and Workshops • Committees, Events • Inventory of Assets, Services and Resources • Section of NYWC website

  8. Learnings • Appetite to engage around women’s safety issues. • Community of interest in promoting women’s empowerment. • Appreciationof importance of violence prevention as well as response. • There are locally available assets, programs, groups, services – challenge to navigate, connect and stay current. • Role of culture and tradition – inroads and hurdles.

  9. Big Issues • Lack of information or misinformation about rights in Canada, how to exercise them, supports available. • Limited exposure to role models (women who have overcome obstacles) in their own communities and others. • Isolation, limited or lack of support system and connection to services that promote self-expression, learning and growing.

  10. Small Group Exercise • One issue per table. • Small groups begin at one table. • Work through the prepared questions, record key points. • Final question is about actions for the project to take. • Then move to another table, read responses from first group. • Add further ideas, points and actions. • Each group will visit 2 tables.

  11. Suggested Actions For your 3 - 4 best actions: • Capture key words on a card. • No more than 5 words per card. • Use BLOCK LETTERS. • No more than 4 cards per group.

  12. Break and Voting • Distribute your dots among the cards according to your view of the importance of each action • You can put all your dots on one card or spread them out.

  13. Shaping Priority Actions • What are the strengths of this proposed action? •  What are some challenges? •  Are there existing resources and assets to draw upon? •  What are ways for women in the community to participate? •  What are first steps?

  14. Wrap-up • Final insights and impressions • Please complete the evaluation form • Let us know of your interest in participating in further shaping action plans • Contact us for presentations, workshops, dialogues barb@nywc

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