From the Centre for Research & Education on Violence Against Women and Children Learning Network:
Join CREVAW for an upcoming webinar, “Beyond Bill C-16: Turning Legislative Reform into Survivor Safety” on Tuesday, September 15th at 1pm EST. Register today!
Bill C-16 represents an important opportunity to strengthen Canada’s response to gender-based violence. This session will explore the legislation through a survivor-centred and systems-change lens, focusing not only on what the Bill proposes, but why these reforms matter, what they could mean for survivors and the GBV sector, and the implementation considerations necessary to translate legislative change into meaningful improvements in survivor safety.
This webinar will be presented in English, with simultaneous French interpretation and American Sign Language (ASL) interpretation. Register today!
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
By attending this Webinar, participants will be better able to:
- Understand the key reforms proposed in Bill C-16 and their significance for survivors and the GBV sector
- Explain the importance of recognizing coercive control and femicide within Canada’s legal framework
- Identify opportunities and implementation challenges associated with the legislation
- Recognize that legislation alone does not improve safety and that effective implementation requires coordinated action across justice, community services, and other systems
- Consider the role of the GBV sector in supporting implementation and advancing survivor-centered responses
SPEAKER
Angela Marie MacDougall is currently the executive director of Battered Women’s Support Services. Through her community-based organizing, frontline work, curricula development, training, and activism over three decades, she has been deeply involved in movements for gender, racial and social justice.
Angela’s impact includes the development of empowerment and advocacy-based program and service delivery models that address gender-based violence and violence against women that are grounded in strong theoretical frameworks that include intersectional feminist trauma and violence-informed analysis. She has organized around law reform and community-based research toward building lasting social change.
She is the co-writer of Freedom from Violence: Tools for Working with Trauma, Mental Health and Substance Use; Empowering Non-Status, Refugee, and Immigrant Women Who Experience Violence; Implementation of a National Action Plan on GBV and VAW: Supports for Survivors and their Families; and Colour of Violence: Gender, Race and Anti-Violence Services.
Angela is an expert panelist at Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability, a founding member of Feminists Deliver, a long-standing member of Vancouver’s February 14th Women’s Memorial March and is a founding member of Intersectional Feminist Justice Research and Organizing Collaborative.
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