From West Coast LEAF:
A new resource from West Coast LEAF, Safety Together is a community-driven research project developed through the BC Family Well-Being Coalition. Access the full resource here: “Safety Together: Addressing gender-based violence and the family policing system”
Grounded in knowledge shared by lived experience experts, the report identifies six systemic sites where gender-based violence (GBV) and family policing intersect to increase risks and create harmful impacts for survivors, families, and children.
The six sites of intersection are:
- The shared history and overlapping harms of GBV and family policing
- Service provision as administrative violence
- Mandatory reporting
- Family policing investigations and interventions
- Intersecting legal systems
- Government custody of children and separation from family
Access the full resource here: “Safety Together: Addressing gender-based violence and the family policing system”
TRANSFORMATIVE CALLS FOR CHANGE
Throughout the report, community experts call for bold shifts—away from family policing and towards family well-being. Safety Together highlights the transformative changes needed to redirect resources away from harmful systems of policing towards wholistic, relational family well-being aligned with families’ self-determination.
The report outlines the action needed on many levels by advocates, supporters, service providers, organizations, and policymakers.
ABOUT WEST COAST LEAF
West Coast LEAF works to deepen justice and substantive equality for women and people who experience gender discrimination. Through our community-engaged legal practice, we collaborate with those most impacted and marginalized by systems of oppression, and stop at nothing less than transformative social change.
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