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Respectful Relationships National Grantee Meeting in Calgary by Christina Antonick

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  “Together we can face any challenges as deep as the ocean and as high as the sky.” – Sonia Gandhi- In early October, I was blessed to travel to Calgary for a national meeting of Canadian Women’s Foundation’s 17 Teen Healthy Relationships Grantees – of which our Respectful Relationships is one. CWF are working… Read more »

Australian’s research on best-practice respectful relationships programs includes SWOVA – by Ellen Poyner

Ellyn with Lynda Laushway, Christina Antonick, and Sharyn Carroll

I’m an Australian Social Worker, who had the privilege of visiting SWOVA as part of my Churchill Fellowship – a scholarship supporting me to travel to Canada and the USA to investigate Family Violence and Sexual Assault prevention programs, approaches and evaluations. As I travel around, my intention is to learn about unique and promising… Read more »

Why Focus on Gender-based Violence? by Lynda Laushway

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There is a lot of violence in our world and it takes many forms- men’s violence towards other men, violence perpetrated on children, violence directed at seniors, violence against lesbian, gay and transgendered people, and violence against women, to name some of the more prevalent forms. The motivations for violence are many and complex and… Read more »

June 16th, 2020: Reflections on South African Youth Day

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  “They are a generation whose whole education has been under the diabolical design of the racists to poison the minds and brainwash our children into docile subjects of apartheid rule.” -Nelson Mandela   Thirty-nine years ago and yesterday, South African youth led an uprising against the apartheid regime. The image of twelve-year-old Hector Pieterson… Read more »