EVENTS
Catalyzing Safer STEM Learning Spaces
View the event recording on our YouTube channel.
We’re thrilled to officially launch our At the Root initiative with an inspiring conversation featuring Canada’s own “Science Sam,” Dr. Samantha Yammine. As Science Sam shares her personal journey, we will explore how experiential learning in post-secondary education plays a pivotal role in starting and stopping women and gender-diverse students from pursuing rewarding careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Together, we will reflect on how we can foster safer and more inclusive environments, and the practical steps we can take to advance gender equity in STEM learning spaces. We will also discuss how our flagship initiative - At the Root - is delivering evidence-based resources, training and advocacy in partnership with employers, administrators, and students to drive positive change.
Join us on Wednesday, April 9, at 1 pm (EDT) for this important conversation and discover how we can collectively advance gender equity in STEM education and beyond.
Register now at https://lu.ma/unb2u449.
Accessibility: French interpretation and closed captioning will be available. If you have any other accessibility requests to support your participation, please contact us at communications@couragetoact.ca.
This event is made possible through the generous support of Women and Gender Equality Canada.
Courage to Act: Mapping Our Movements to End Campus Gender-Based Violence
Join us on March 25th for a virtual celebration of Courage to Act's journey over the past five years. Hear from our network of survivors, student leaders, frontline GBV campus staff, faculty, and senior administrators as we share project insights, impact, and lessons learned. We will also explore strategies to sustain our momentum and discuss the opportunities and challenges the next five years will bring for our collective campus GBV advocacy efforts. We can't wait to celebrate, strategize, and dream with you!
Using Gender-Based Violence Community Risk Assessments to Make Campuses Safer
Join our Community Risk Assessment working group as they introduce the very first evidence-based, campus-specific tool to assess the risk individuals pose where a complaint of GBV has been made, and explain how post-secondary institutions can employ it to create safer campus communities.
La traduction simultanée en français sera disponible lors de cette activité.
Press Conference: Taking Action to Protect Students from Sexual Harassment in Experiential Learning
It's been a year since students released Our Campus, Our Safety, an action plan with 10 calls for PSIs and governments to address campus GBV. Possibility Seeds has created specific policy and legislative recommendations to answer one of those calls! Join student leaders in collaboration with our Experiential Learning Project as we advocate for experiential learning free from sexual harassment.
Sexual Harassment in Experiential Learning: A Price Students Shouldn’t Have to Pay
Join us as we share findings from the first national study looking at sexual harassment in experiential learning and introduce our suite of free, practical tools and resources, including a model for responding to disclosures and a workbook for building protocol to respond to sexual violence and harassment in experiential learning.
La traduction simultanée en français sera disponible lors de cette activité.
We Can Do Better: Working with Survivors and People who have Caused Harm for Meaningful Accountability
Courage to Act’s Reporting, Investigation and Adjudication (RIA) working group presents its final event: a keynote with Sarah Wolgemuth. You can learn more on our National Skillshare Series Page and register here!
La traduction simultanée en français sera disponible lors de cette activité. Vous pouvez consulter les détails ici.
Use the Right Words: Guidelines for Reporting on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Canada
Possibility Seeds has worked with femifesto to update their landmark 2015 Use the Right Words guide, and create an expanded suite of accompanying guides. Join Farrah Khan and Aubrianna Snow in conversation with journalists and media professionals, Alyshah Hasham, Robyn Doolittle and Shannon Giannitsopoulou to launch this exciting resource and reshape how we talk about, and report on, sexual and gender-based violence.
Trauma-Informed Care on Campus: A Guide for Gender-based Violence Survivors and Health-care Providers
Courage to Act’s Response & Support Working Group launches a new workbook intended to support survivors and their advocates in navigating access to campus care, and guide health-care professionals in providing trauma-informed care on campus.
Deep Dive: Strategies for Procedurally Fair, Trauma-Informed GBV Complaint Adjudication and Appeals to Reduce Harm
In Courage to Act’s last Deep Dive training session, we’ll take a "deep dive" into adjudications and appeals of campus gender-based violence complaints. Learn more on our National Skillshare Series Page.
La traduction simultanée en français sera disponible lors de cette activité. Vous pouvez consulter les détails ici.
Deep Dive: Strategies for Procedurally Fair, Trauma-Informed GBV Complaint Investigations to Reduce Harm
This session takes a "deep dive" into the investigations phase of campus gender-based violence complaints. To learn more, head to our National Skillshare Series Page.
La traduction simultanée en français sera disponible lors de cette activité. Vous pouvez consulter les détails ici.
Imagine Empowerment: Shaping Systems of Care for Indigenous Survivors and Advocates
This event will bring together Indigenous survivors and advocates against gender-based violence to share in a space of self-care and knowledge sharing. Together, we will dream of new worlds that better support and uplift Indigenous voices in the work against GBV.
Participation in this event is for Indigenous folks only. Learn more and apply here.
Protocols to Effectively Respond to Campus Sexual and Gender-Based Violence
Join us as Dr. Jesmen Mendoza and Farrah Khan introduce Courage to Act’s new Response & Support tools for practitioners to address sexual and gender-based violence on campus.
Responding to Critical Incidents of Sexual Violence at Post-Secondary Institutions
Hear from Courage to Act’s national experts as they introduce the Responding to Critical Incidents of Sexual Violence at PSIs guide to help campuses create a well-planned, proactive response to critical incidents.
Introduction to the Foundational Standards for Campus Gender-Based Violence Complaints
This 2-hour training session will provide an overview of the Comprehensive Guide to Campus Gender-Based Violence Complaints. Register here and learn more on our National Skillshare Series page.
La traduction simultanée en français sera disponible lors de cette activité. Vous pouvez consulter les détails ici.
Critical Response Design Jam
This design jam offers a collaborative space to envision promising practices to address critical incidents of sexual violence on campus. Learn more and register here.
Learning Labs: Developing a Theory of Change Model for a Peer Program
Learning Labs are facilitated, online ‘hands-on learning’ spaces for campus GBV educators and professionals. This Lab will help participants build a theory of change model for an existing peer program that targets gender-based violence prevention education. This Lab expands on concepts introduced in Chapter 2 of the Education and Training Toolkit. To learn more, head to this page: Learning Labs - National Skillshare Series Page
Deep Dive: Strategies for Procedurally Fair, Trauma-Informed Interim Measures to Reduce Harm
Register here. To learn more, head to: “Deep Dive” Training Series on Campus GBV Complaints Processes - National Skillshare Series Page.
La traduction simultanée en français sera disponible lors de cette activité. Vous pouvez consulter les détails ici.
We Build Consent: Student Leaders on Critical Action Needed for Safer Communities
Join us in launching the first national Consent Awareness Week! Find details and register here! Learn more about Consent Awareness Week here!
We Build Consent: Student Leaders on Critical Action Needed for Safer Communities, is a conversation on creating cultures of consent moderated by Aubrianna Snow (AB) with Daysha Loppie (ON), Maya Labrosse (QC), Aryanna Chartrand (BC), and Isabel Ojeda (NL). The panel will have simultaneous English/French interpretation and closed captioning.***
Pour une meilleure culture du consentement : Les leaders étudiantes discutent des actions nécessaires pour des communautés sécuritaires
Jeudi 22 septembre 2022
11 H 30 12 H 30
Joignez-vous à nous pour célébrer la première semaine nationale de sensibilisation au consentement ! Pour en savoir plus ou participer, c’est ici ! Pour en savoir plus sur la Semaine de sensibilisation au consentement, cliquez ici !
Introduction to the Foundational Standards for Campus Gender-Based Violence Complaints
This 2-hour training session will provide an overview of the Comprehensive Guide to Campus Gender-Based Violence Complaints. Register here and learn more on our National Skillshare Series page.
La traduction simultanée en français sera disponible lors de cette activité. Vous pouvez consulter les détails ici.
Creating a Campus-Wide Sexual Violence Education Action Plan: All Star Summer School Session 4
A free, 4-week interactive experiential learning course for campus GBV educators running June 7-July 7 2022. To learn more, head to this page: All-Star Summer School: Building Education Action Plans
Register for the course here!
Introduction to the Foundational Standards for Campus Gender-Based Violence Complaints
This 2-hour training session will provide an overview of the Comprehensive Guide to Campus Gender-Based Violence Complaints. Register here and learn more on our National Skillshare Series page.
La traduction simultanée en français sera disponible lors de cette activité. Vous pouvez consulter les détails ici.
Creating a Campus-Wide Sexual Violence Education Action Plan: All Star Summer School Session 3
A free, 4-week interactive experiential learning course for campus GBV educators running June 7-July 7 2022. To learn more, head to this page: All-Star Summer School: Building Education Action Plans
Register for the course here!
Creating a Campus-Wide Sexual Violence Education Action Plan: All Star Summer School Session 2
A free, 4-week interactive experiential learning course for campus GBV educators running June 7-July 7 2022. To learn more, head to this page: All-Star Summer School: Building Education Action Plans
Register for the course here!
Learning Labs: Workshop Evaluation: How To’s
Learning Labs are facilitated, online ‘hands-on learning’ spaces for campus GBV educators and professionals. This Lab digs deep into key concepts on workshop evaluation from Chapter 2 of the Education and Training Toolkit. To learn more, head to this page: Learning Labs - National Skillshare Series Page
Creating a Campus-Wide Sexual Violence Education Action Plan: All Star Summer School Session 1
A free, 4-week interactive experiential learning course for campus GBV educators running June 7-July 7 2022. To learn more, head to this page: All-Star Summer School: Building Education Action Plans
Register for the course here!