In 2018, Violence Prevention Grey Bruce participated in an Ontario-wide initiative Snapshot to examine gendered violence in our communities. The Southwest Region VAW Coordinating Committee (SWRCC) developed Snapshot 2018 as an ‘action-in-a-box’ regional strategy to engage and inform the new government about the state of our communities. They wanted to build a bigger wave of public attention to the epidemic of femicide and violence against women and children.
As a participating committee, VPGB collected statistics from participating member organizations for the time period of January – June 2018. Each participating community gathered local stats to create a ‘snapshot’ to inspire conversations about the overlapping realities of VAW and related issues in their area. Violence against women is not an isolated or individual problem. It is a complex social issue that impacts all citizens. Snapshot can help paint a bigger picture and spark informed discussion about what is happening in our communities. VPGB plans to present our local snapshot to municipal and county councils throughout 2019 and 2020.
The full PDF is available here: Snapshot 2018 Grey Bruce[21893] and smaller images of the snapshot are copied below.
Read the press release from the launch here.