BBW Snapshot

A community tool with a strategy to educate and engage everyone on the devastating impacts of gender-based violence in our communities

The Southwest Region VAW Coordinating Committee (SWRCC) developed Snapshot in 2018 to help educate and engage the public and politicians in their home communities. Violence against women is not an isolated or individual problem. It is a complex social issue that impacts all citizens, and often for generations. Snapshot paints a bigger picture with statistics and stories of what is happening as a direct result of overlapping social and economic inequities. The tools have been developed and are available for any coordinating committee that wants to participate. VAWCCs can customize Snapshot to reflect their community. There is no deadline.

Use Snapshot to help the broader public understand that our success as a society should not be measured by the wealth of the few, but by how well the most socially and economically disadvantaged citizens are doing. Elected officials need to be well-informed about the pressures in their communities to keep people safe.

We want to build a bigger wave of public attention to the epidemic of femicide and violence against women, children and gender-diverse people.

The tools:

Snapshot is designed to:

*See Ontario Association of Interval and Transition Houses: Femicide Reports  and also the Canadian Femicide Observatory for Justice and Accountability.

View Previous Snapshots

Check out Snapshots produced by VAWCCs across Ontario

District of Parry Sound

District of Parry Sound

Northumberland

Northumberland

In 2018, prior to the launch of Snapshot, Thrive in Northumberland had already been working on a Report Card and Infographic.

Peterborough

Peterborough

Sarnia-Lambton

Sarnia-Lambton

Simcoe County

Simcoe County

Temiskaming

Temiskaming