Making Changes - A book for women experiencing intimate partner abuse

When one partner is hurting the other, it’s called abuse or domestic violence.  It can include hitting their partner, sexual abuse, controlling their partner’s money or behaviour, controlling them emotionally, or coercive control. If you are a woman experiencing abuse or if you have been abused, Making Changes: a book for women experiencing intimate partner abusemay help.  A lot of the information is also relevant to men and non-binary people who have experienced abuse.

Click on the links below for the full book, and book chapters.

 Making Changes (10th edition)

 

For a survivors of gender-based violence housing benefit

The Survivors of Gender-based Violence Benefit provides individuals and families who are fleeing or are planning to leave their home due to acts of gender-based violence with a monthly benefit to help pay their rent. For more information click the link https://beta.novascotia.ca/apply-survivors-gender-based-violence-housing-benefit

 

 

Trauma-Informed Buzzword Requires Understanding
As the details of the Mass Casualty Commission are reported, I have read repeated reference to the term trauma-informed. What does trauma-informed really mean? How, exactly, are trauma-informed principles influencing this process?  The fact that this term is used repeatedly without description or definition, suggests that it is being treated as a buzzword. If we don’t take time to consider what it means, then we are at risk of making some significant assumptions.
To read further please visit: https://www.prioritykids.ca/blog/trauma-informed-buzzword-requires-understanding