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Gender-Based Violence Hub
What is Gender-Based Violence?
Gender Based Violence includes intimate partner violence, family violence, sexualized violence, obstetric and gynecological violence, exploitation, trafficking, transphobia,
misogyny, coercive control, stalking, workplace violence, bullying, harassment, and structural violence.
What is the Gender-Based Violence Hub?
The Gender Based Violence Hub exists to serve both clients and agencies as well as do research on all supports available across our area. Creating safe spaces and fostering a supportive community is crucial in empowering survivors to overcome the trauma of
gender-based violence and to serve to increase support networks among women, girls and gender diverse people. The GBV Hub provides a single stop for GBV resources for individuals, peers, partners and agencies. The GBV Hub does not provide medical, legal, or therapeutic advice or services.
Navigation of Supports and Services
Support is available on-site at the center, virtually, and within the community. Services include direct assistance with navigation, advocacy, and accompaniment, all approached from a survivor-centered, trauma-informed lens. Navigation to services such as the GBV Rent Subsidy, Transition House, Elizabeth Fry Society Legal Aid, Social Justice and Family Law Navigation, Peer Support Groups, the Well Woman’s Clinic, Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner, Family Place Resource Centre, CBICI, Nova Scotia Works, etc.
Events and Workshops
The GBV Hub puts on community events, campaigns, and workshops focused on education, prevention, advocacy, and support, collaborating with various organizations, services, and volunteer groups. Self Esteem Workshops, Self Defense Workshops, Healing Circles, Poster Making, Collaborative Events such as the Newcomers and GBV Conference at CBU and the Newcomer Walk with CBICI
The GBV Hub collaborates with the Cape Breton Feminist Group and The Future is Female: Youth Feminist Collective to put on events such as Take Back the Night, The Women’s March, Rebel Hearts Youth Open Mic
Lobbying, Advocacy and Accompaniment
Collaborating with organizations across Nova Scotia, the GBV Hub contributes to lobbying and legislative change efforts, advocates for client needs, and provides accompaniment to services. Work is informed by recommendations from key reports and strategies, including the Mass Casualty Commission, the National Action Plan to End Gender-Based Violence, Reclaiming Power and Place (Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women), the Nova Scotia Equity and Anti-Racism Strategy, and the Tracadie Inquiry (*currently undergoing a name change).
Coordination also occurs with women’s centers province-wide.
Contact
If you have any questions or concerns, or would like to access any of the Gender-Based Violence Hub services, please contact our Gender-Based Violence Hub Coordinator, Jenny Hubbert at (902) 919-6487 or at gbvcoordinator@everywomanscentre.com
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