Grade 11 Healthy Active Living Education Additional Supports ...

The following is a list of the type of initiatives in which these organizations get involved:
• Develop and nurture networks and coalitions to work on specific issues or areas of
work.
• Work with the broadcast and print media on understanding and representing issues of
violence against women and children appropriately.
• Write briefs and materials for presentation to public, regulatory and legislative
bodies.
• Produce and distribute publications and information packages on violence against
women and children.
• Develop and distribute materials on how to start sexual assault prevention program on
violence initiatives in schools.
• Provide training and education workshops to School Boards, immigrant/refugee
groups, community groups, faith communities.
• Create materials for physicians to help identify and respond to assaulted women.
• Distribute educational material to women in crisis, their relatives and friends, abusive
men, shelters, concerned individuals/neighbours/employers/doctors.
• Produce materials in partnership with diverse language, racial, cultural, disability and
other minority communities.
• Implement community models with approaches to address urban/rural social needs
(focus on the capacity of the community to empower their members).
• Raise the awareness of people of the unique issues of domestic violence and in the
community.
• Promote a collaborative community based partnership for the purposes of prevention
and effective intervention.
• Train key facilitators in facilitation skills, community development techniques and
e-mail communication.
Community Resources Related to Violence Issues:
Look in the front page of the phone book for information about your local crisis centre.
For more information on issues and resources related to abuse, contact:
• your local Health Department
• Telehealth Ontario 1-866-797-0000
• Kids Help Phone 1-800-668-6868
Helpful Websites:
General
• Canadians Against Violence Everywhere Advocating its Termination (CAVEAT):
www.caveat/org
• Canadian Resource Centre for Victims of Crime: www.crcvc.ca
• Centre for Research on Violence Against Women and Children:
www.uwo.ca/violence
• Child Find Website: www.childfind.ca
• ChildrenÕs Aid Society of Toronto: www.casmt.on.ca
• Community Child Abuse Council of Canada: www.commchildabusecouncil.org
• London Family Court Clinic: www.lfcc.on.ca provides links to child abuse sites
• National Crime Prevention Council: www.crime-prevention.org/ncpc
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