This webinar is intended for frontline workers who encounter clients dealing with Intimate Partner Violence in their lives and members of the general public who may be neighbours, friends or family members of people subjected to Intimate Partner Violence. The webinar will explore the basics of intimate partner violence. Topics covered will include:

The importance of understanding the gendered realities of Intimate Partner Violence
The dynamics of Intimate Partner Violence
Typologies and tactics
What makes some women more vulnerable than others
Coercive control
Cycle of abuse
Why women stay and return
Post-separation abuse
Tech abuse
How to recognize and respond to Intimate Partner Violence

This interactive webinar will use an intersectional feminist analysis/framework, recognizing that, men, trans and non-binary folx can be victims of Intimate Partner Violence, the victims of the most serious forms of coercive controlling and physical violence, including lethal violence, are people who identify as women. The instructor, Pamela Cross, is a feminist lawyer who has worked on the legal issues related to gender-based violence for nearly three decades. See: https://pamelacross.ca/

If you or someone close to you is a victim or survivor of intimate partner or gender-based violence, you may find some of the content of this webinar challenging. We encourage you to put in place whatever supports you think you may need, including having someone with you, so you can engage in the webinar in a way that works for you, whether that is listening, or offering comments, or asking questions.