BRIEF - November 2025
Federal Budget 2025 & Gender-Based Violence: Progress, Gaps, and Alternatives
This brief provides an overview of how the 2025 federal budget addresses gender-based violence (GBV) through investments to the Department of Women and Gender Equality (WAGE), Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and Two Spirit (MMIWG2S) Calls for Justice, and the National Action Plan to end Gender-Based Violence (NAPGBV).
KNOWLEDGE SYNTHESIS- SEPTEMBER 2025
Climate Change & Gender-Based Violence
This knowledge synthesis summarizes research on how climate change acts as a threat multiplier for GBV and outlines the unique impacts, risks, and resiliency needs for women, girls, gender-diverse people, and transition houses in Nova Scotia.
RESEARCH BRIEF - February 2025
Reproductive Coercion & Intimate Partner Violence
This research brief summarizes and synthesizes community and academic research on reproductive coercion in the context of intimate partner violence (IPV).
RESEARCH BRIEF - December 2024
The Homicide Timeline: A Model Developed by Dr. Jane Monckton Smith
This brief summarizes Dr. Jane Monckton Smith’s work on The Homicide Timeline, which is a model for understanding and assessing risk of homicide in cases where there is domestic abuse.
RESEARCH BRIEF - October 2024
Gender-Based Violence In Nova Scotia
This research brief examines gender-based violence in Nova Scotia, including the unique environmental, cultural, and health factors present in the province that contribute to it.
RESEARCH BRIEF - October 2024
A Population Health Approach Framework to Addressing CSEC in Nova Scotia
This research brief summarizes the IWK Mental Health and Addictions Health Promotion Team’s (IWK MHAHPT) report, A Population Health Approach Framework to Address Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and Youth in Nova Scotia.
RESEARCH BRIEF - October 2024
IPV In The 2SLGBTQAI+ Community
This research brief examines the ways that members of the 2SLBGTQAI+ community are impacted by and experience IPV in Canada.
RESEARCH BRIEF - October 2024
Supporting 2SLGBTQAI+ Survivors
This research brief summarizes and synthesizes community and academic research on barriers to service provision for 2SLBGTQAI+ survivors of Intimate Partner Violence (IPV) and how to support them. A lack of appropriate services and support for 2SLGBTQAI+ survivors of IPV demonstrates a need for increased education, research, and awareness of the complexities and nuances of IPV in the 2SLGBTQAI+ community.