Safe Choices Publications
Safe Choices Program's Healthy Relationships and Service Provider Curriculum Available to Order
The Healthy Relationships Curriculum includes five workshop outlines as well as instructor notes and handouts. Workshops focus on communication and relational skills for queer women in same sex/gender relationships and ways of addressing relationship abuse. The Service Provider Curriculum includes information about dynamics within abusive same gender relationships and ways of providing support, barriers to access to service and strategies for making services accessible. The curriculum is predominately focused on supporting queer women in same gender relationships.
Hate Crimes
In Canada, hate crime is a criminal offence committed against a person, group of people or property that is motivated by the suspect's hate, prejudice or bias, based on race, colour, national or ethnic origin, language, religion, sex, age, mental or physical disability, or sexual orientation.
Transgender People and Relationship Abuse
Due to transphobia and its impact (violence, loss of employment, loss of loved ones), many trans people and their partners experience isolation and invisibility. This can create vulnerability to violence. Trnas people who have been abused have significantly fewer services available to them, even in large cities.
Abuse in Same-Sex Relationships
Abuse in same-sex relationships is a serious problem within lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and Two-Spirit communities.
Healthy Relationships for Gay Men
Men who identify as gay, bisexual, Two-Spirit or queer face unique challenges in creating and sustaining healthy, satisfying intimate relationships for many reasons.
Healthy Relationships for Lesbians
Women who identify as lesbian, bisexual, Two-Spirit, and/or queer, face unique challenges in creating and sustaining healthy, satisfying intimate relationships for many reasons.
