The following library includes more information and resources on how to improve safety and risk management for individuals experiencing gender-based violence and abuse. This library includes both web-based resources and platforms as well as mobile-applications that can be downloaded on a cellular device such as a smartphone or tablet.
Please note that clicking any of the links below will open a new browser and some resources include downloadable PDFs that can be downloaded and saved on your device. Any documents downloaded from mulberry or other resources provided within mulberry will be downloaded and accessible from your device.
This list will be continually updated to ensure the information provided is current and accurate. If you have any questions or concerns about any of the resources included please contact: info@oaith.ca
Web-Based Resources (accessed via a computer/laptop/web browser)
iDetermine (The Redwood) 2022
- Target Audience: Women, girls and gender-diverse individuals experiencing violence/abuse
- Main Features: relationship safety quiz, risk management plan, digital and online safety
Access Via: https://www.idetermine.ca/
Is Our Relationship Healthy? (YWCA Canada), 2018
- Target Audience: Anyone
- Main Features: self-paced quiz to evaluate relationship safety
Access Via: https://ywcacanada.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Healthy-Relationship_EN_Web.pdf
Leaving Home Checklist (Luke’s Place) 2022
- Target Audience: Survivors escaping/fleeing violence
- Main Features: Checklist for survivors to improve safety when escaping/fleeing violence (includes downloadable checklist)
Access Via: https://familycourtandbeyond.ca/keep-safe/leaving-home/
Love is Respect (National Domestic Violence Hotline) 2020
- Target Audience: Teens/Youth
- Main Features: Information on youth healthy relationships and dating. (Local Resources are for U.S. only)
Access Via: https://www.loveisrespect.org/
New Device Checklist (Government of Canada), 2021
- Target Audience: Individuals using an electronic device
- Main Features: checklist to improve safety on new electronic devices
Access Via: https://www.getcybersafe.gc.ca/en/resources/new-device-checklist
Safety Planning for Children (Luke’s Place) 2022
- Target Audience: Survivors and their children
- Main Features: Safety planning toolkit for survivors and their children, including considerations for emergency situations, supports for children and documenting experiences/impacts of violence
Access Via: https://familycourtandbeyond.ca/keep-safe/children/
Technology Safety For Virtual Conferences And Services: A Toolkit For Survivors Of Intimate Partner Violence (Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic) 2020
- Target Audience: Women, girls and gender-diverse individuals experiencing violence/abuse
- Main Features: Safety recommendations/guidelines for general use and virtual family court appearances
Access Via: https://www.schliferclinic.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Technology-Safety-A-Toolkit-for-Survivors.pdf
WITHWomen - Supporting Safe Relationships (MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions)
- Target Audience: Women, girls and gender-diverse individuals experiencing violence/abuse
- Main Features: relationship safety quiz, online safety information and connection to community-based services
Access Via: https://withwomen.ca/resources
You Are Not Alone - A Toolkit for Aboriginal Women Escaping Domestic Violence (Native Women’s Association of Canada), 2015
- Target Audience: Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit individuals
- Main Features: overview of colonial impacts on violence, screening tools to identify abuse, tips/recommendations for safety planning and leaving an abuser
Access Via: https://www.nwac.ca/assets-knowledge-centre/NWAC-You-Are-Not-Alone-Handbook-with-weblinks.pdf
Mobile Device Applications (accessed via the Google Play Store, Apple Store, etc.)
THE RED PANIC BUTTON!
- Platform: Google Play Store, App Store
- Cost: Free (Offers in app purchases)
- Main Features: User can enable panic SMS messages to be sent to a customized emergency contact
Access Via: https://www.redpanicbutton.com/
What3words
- Platform: Google Play Store, App Store
- Cost: Free
- Main Features: Provides 3 unique words that correspond to exact location which can be sent through app to a trusted contact or provided to emergency services. Recognized by a number of Ontario police departments, including OPP
Access Via: https://what3words.com/products/what3words-app
Bsafe - Never Walk Alone
- Platform: Google Play Store, App Store
- Cost: Free (Offers in app purchases)
- Main Features: social safety network, timer alarm, voice activated SOS, live streaming and recording capabilities, fake call activation
Access Via: https://www.getbsafe.com/solution
