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Beth Jordan (left), management consultant and social justice advocate, and Nelly Dennene, feminist advocate and
facilitator, emcee the Shockproofing Communities Summit in Ottawa.
SHOCKPROOFING
COMMUNITIES AGAINST
GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE:
A NATIONAL SUMMIT
In times of crisis, gender-based violence like
intimate partner abuse and sexual assault spikes.
We saw this during the pandemic, and we will see
it in future health, environmental, or economic
crises – unless we take action now.
The Shockproofing Communities Summit was
grounded in the knowledge that violence spikes
are not inevitable, and we must:
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Safeguard our communities from future
shocks
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Reinforce overstretched gender-based
violence services all over Canada
With Women’s Shelters Canada in March 2023,
we brought together hundreds of diverse genderbased violence experts in Ottawa from across
Canada to strategize violence prevention in times
of disaster and crisis.
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We shared critical resources and
recommendations including:
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A toolkit for service providers of 2SLGBTQIA+
communities, which face a particularly high
risk of gender-based violence.
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The first-of-its-kind emergency preparedness
toolkit for gender justice organizations,
produced in collaboration with disaster and
emergency management experts and antiviolence practitioners.
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A report that maps out what we need to
provide life-saving gender-based violence
services in both normal and emergency
circumstances.
