WIC-Ed Podcast Guelph-Wellington Women in Crisis

May is Sexual Violence Prevention Month! This month, Public Educator Cindy McMann sat down with Kate Crozier of Community Justice Initiatives (CJI), along with 2 guests with experience in restorative justice processes.
Kate and her guests take us through restorative justice alternatives to the criminal legal system, what the process is like for people who have experienced sexual harm and for people who have caused harm, how restorative justice can empower survivors of sexual violence, and what we can do to make this option more widely available to survivors.
Content Warning: sexual violence, sexual harm to minors, incarceration
Resources:
G-W Women in Crisis 24/7 Crisis Line: 519-836-5710 / 1-800-265-7233 (SAFE)
Community Justice Initiatives
The Feminist and the Sex Offender: Confronting Sexual Harm, Ending State Violence. Judith Levine and Erica Meiners
Bernard Center for Women, “What is Accountability?”
adrienne maree brown
Mia Mingus

In this episode, Christina Hennelly from the Brain Injury Association of Waterloo Wellington talks with Public Educator Cindy McMann about Christina's work on the connections between brain injuries and intimate partner violence (IPV).

We talk about the impacts of brain injuries, how common they are in relationships where there's physical violence, tools people can use if they think they or someone they love might have a brain injury and what service providers can do to better support people.
Content Warning: physical violence, impacts of physical injuries due to violence

Resources: The Brain Injury Association of Waterloo Wellington
HELPS Screening Tool
Ontario Brain Injury Association
Traverse Independence
ABI Toolkit

In this episode, we hear from Jacob Pries, from the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region's Male Allies program. Jacob chats with WiC Educator Cindy McMann about masculinity, talking to men and boys about gender-based violence, and Jacob's work on consent education with Hockey Canada.

Resources:
The Male Allies program at the Sexual Assault Support Centre of Waterloo Region
Brené Brown's whole canon of work, which you can see on her website
The Man Enough podcast with Justin Baldoni and Liz Plank
Justin Baldoni's books, Man Enough and Boys Will Be Human
Liz Plank's book, For the Love of Men
Everything Starhawk has written, which you can check out on her website

The 2Rivers Festival presents a podcast in partnership with Guelph-Wellington Women and Crisis and Protect the Tract that explores the relationship between colonization, gender-based violence, land violence and consent. Host Jensen Williams discusses the role of consent in movements to end gender-based violence and ensure land rights with Courtney Skye of Protect the Tract and Emma Callon and Horeen Hassan of the 2Rivers Festival.

In this episode we chat with Myrna Dawson, the Founder and Director of the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability. Dawson is a leading expert on femicide and leader in research and advocacy on violence against women and femicide prevention both nationally and internationally. Have a listen as we unpack the term femicide, the work of the observatory, ways in which data on femicide is collected and pathways to femicide prevention. For more information on the Canadian Femicide Observatory, please visit their website and follow them on twitter @CAN_Femicide.

In this episode, we sit down with our Sexual Assault Centre and Anti-Human Trafficking Program counsellors during Sexual Assault Prevention Month discuss realities and barriers for sexual violence survivors and how we can shift towards a culture of support and prevention.