• Preventing violence before it occurs: focuses on stopping violence before it occurs by addressing its root causes. This could look like promoting healthy relationships, challenging harmful social norms, advancing gender equity, and building skills and environments that reduce the risk of violence across all ages and communities.

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  Examples may include:
  – Childcare
  – Addressing poverty
  – Education and Training
  – Family Resource Networks

Focuses on acting quickly to prevent harm, support survivors, and address behaviors of potential perpetrators before abuse escalates. This may be timely access to care, guidance, and education, helping survivors heal and empowering communities to recognize and respond to warning signs safely. 

Early intervention may include:
– Youth Outreach
– Parenting Supports
– 211 Crisis Hotline

• Provides immediate, short-term support to survivors and perpetrators at moments of acute risk or harm. For survivors, it offers safety, emotional support, and access to urgent services. For perpetrators, it can involve rapid engagement to address harmful behavior and prevent further violence, helping to de-escalate situations and reduce immediate and long-term harm. 

• This may include supports from:
  – Shelters
  – Justice Responses
  – Family Justice Services
  – Legal Services and Aid
  – Crisis Lines
  – Police

The long-term process of healing, stability, and reintegration for individuals and communities affected by violence. For survivors, this includes restoring safety, autonomy, well-being, and opportunities to thrive; for those who have caused harm, it involves accountability, behaviour change, and support to safely reintegrate without reoffending. This approach often emphasizes restorative and community-based efforts that foster repair, connection, and the conditions needed to prevent future violence and may include presentations on:

– Victim Supports
– Restorative Justice
– Cultural Supports