The results of the recent province-wide campus climate survey, Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Alberta Post-Secondary Education, are gut-wrenching. A key finding was that 50% of post-secondary students in Alberta, of the 13,000 who responded, have been subjected to some form of sexual or gender-based violence. The Council of Alberta University Students and Possibility Seeds present this statement with calls to action.

We're so excited to be releasing the first GBV Community Risk Assessment tool designed specifically for the post-secondary context on September 25th! Dr. Jesmen Mendoza and Dr. Sandy Jung give a final update and discuss the process they undertook in creating the tool, in consultation with their expert panel.

Youth are the most effective advocates for our own experiences. But advocating as a student leader can be intimidating, whether it’s institutional advocacy or government relations. Our stakeholder relations specialist Aubrianna Snow has gathered some easily accessible resources from Courage to Act and beyond to help guide you.

Consent Awareness Week is coming up September 18th-22nd! We’ve got lots of ideas about how you can participate this year, as well as a resource list and shareable graphics, GIFs and reels you can use to spread the word, and help us spark conversations about consent from coast to coast!

Our ELP team has been hard at work writing up their findings and we're so excited to be sharing resources with you starting next month from Canada's first-ever national research project on this issue, in both English and French!

Ce dernier article d’une série de neuf explore les raisons pour lesquelles le congédiement ou l’expulsion systématiques d’une personne mise en cause pour violence sexuelle n’est pas une pratique sensible à la complexité du contexte dans lequel s’inscrit la violence.

Mark your calendars - this year’s #ConsentAwarenessWeek will be held September 18th-22nd, 2023! This year, we’re hoping to get Consent Awareness Week declared by as many provinces, territories, and municipalities as possible, as well as seeing it declared nationally. And we need your help!

In a continued response to the recent hate-motivated attack at the University of Waterloo, the Our Campus, Our Safety coalition and student union partners have written an open letter with six asks of post-secondary institutions and governments to ensure a safe learning and working environment for all campus community members.

We’re sending solidarity to Waterloo and campuses across Canada in light of the devastating news of the June 28th attack in a gender studies classroom. These incidents have deep reverberations and impacts, and we've gathered some resources to support concrete action campuses can take to build prevention and trauma-informed response efforts.

Throughout their time with Courage to Act, the Reporting, Investigations, and Adjudication (RIA) Working Group has endeavoured to provide tools, strategies, and foundational knowledge necessary to build institutional complaint processes that are procedurally fair, trauma-informed, and reduce harm wherever possible.

Dans cet article, Courage d’agir met en lumière des ressources et des outils du Dr. Jesmen Mendoza permettant de mieux répondre aux incidents de violence genrée sur les campus.

The following is a community-curated list of free resources - books, articles, blog posts, podcasts, webinars, and more - that recognize gender-based violence as a tool of the colonial project, and aim to decolonize the gender justice movement.

Deb Eerkes est de retour avec le 8e article de sa série « Questions simples aux réponses compliquées » consacrée à la procédure de plainte liée aux violences genrées sur les campus. Cette fois-ci, Deb aborde la question délicate des représailles.

Farrah Khan writes about the process of creating the stunning Healing Comes in Waves podcast and its powerful 7th episode, which speaks with a survivor and the person who sexually assaulted her about going through restorative justice.

Dans cet article, Kharoll-Ann Souffrant nous permet de plonger dans son univers et nous invite à comprendre la genèse de son essai Le privilège de dénoncer. Par un authentique voyage dans son histoire de vie, elle nous permet d’explorer le vécu des femmes noires et racisées, une communauté dans l’angle mort du mouvement #MeToo.

Deb Eerkes is back with the 9th (and final!) part of her series that has taken us step-by-step, breaking down the campus GBV complaints process and answering the most common questions she hears. The last "simple question" she addresses is that of "zero-tolerance" or automatic expulsion/firing for those who commit sexual violence.

Divesting from punitive approaches and working productively with people who have caused harm are necessary components of a survivor-centered approach to addressing campus gender-based violence. We've gathered Courage to Act's resources that can help guide you in moving away from traditional carceral approaches to this work here.

Vous trouverez dans cet article différents événements, colloques et conférences vous permettant de vous perfectionner en tant que professionnel.le qui travaille dans le milieu des violences genrées et sexuelles. Ces événements sont tous offerts en français.

Deb Eerkes nous propose la septième partie de la série Questions simples aux réponses compliquées. Dans ce tome fraîchement traduit en français, elle examine comment la personne chargée d’une enquête devrait procéder dans un cas sans preuves tangibles où l’on n’a que les témoignages de la personne plaignante et la personne mise en cause.

Last month, Aubrianna Snow hosted Imagine Empowerment: Shaping Systems of Care for Indigenous Survivors and Advocates. This event, graciously funded by the We Matter Campaign, brought together Indigenous survivors and GBV prevention advocates to share in a space of self-care and discuss aspects of their work. Read some reflections from Aubrianna and the participants!