violence prevention
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- Model healthy relationships to our children
- Discuss all types of violence.
What does it look like? What are the warning signs?
- Teach our children how to talk about their feelings and problems.
Teach them how to control anger and let off steam in a healthy way.
Who can we turn to for help?
- Teach our children and youth to have boundaries.
What makes a healthy relationship and what is not okay for a partner to do?
- Ensure there is funding for violence prevention programs and help get one started in your community and/or school
-Support youth programs that allow youth to build healthy relationships, become leaders, gain confidence and be engaged in their communities
- Do not judge people who stay or have been in abusive relationships.
Be a friend, listen and try to help.
- Pressure government to take action and to support initiatives.
Vote for leaders who are part of the solution.
- Discuss all types of violence.
What does it look like? What are the warning signs?
- Teach our children how to talk about their feelings and problems.
Teach them how to control anger and let off steam in a healthy way.
Who can we turn to for help?
- Teach our children and youth to have boundaries.
What makes a healthy relationship and what is not okay for a partner to do?
- Ensure there is funding for violence prevention programs and help get one started in your community and/or school
-Support youth programs that allow youth to build healthy relationships, become leaders, gain confidence and be engaged in their communities
- Do not judge people who stay or have been in abusive relationships.
Be a friend, listen and try to help.
- Pressure government to take action and to support initiatives.
Vote for leaders who are part of the solution.
Most Violence and Abuse is
Commited by Someone We Know It is never the victims fault but there are ways we can help people from becoming victims. Most importantly, we need to teach people how to not be perpetrators. 90% of all female homicides In Canada are committed by somone who was close to the victim but Aboriginal women are more than 8 times more likely to be murdered by an intimate partner and are 3.5 times more likely to expierence violence in a relationship. |
Why Does Violence Happen?
There is not just one reason why violence happens and every person's expierence is different. However, when violence occurs between a man and a women, it is more than likely that there is a relationship of inequality where the man inapproripately assumes that he has power over the woman. Too often in our society, this attitude of inequality is perpetuated by stereotypes, media and other's beliefs. Types of violence include: physical, sexual, emotional, verbal, financial, spiritual, and criminal. |