Webinars

Strong Women: Resources to Support Women with Intimate Partner Violence and Substance Use Concerns​

In this webinar, researchers from the Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health share key components of the Strong Women virtual support program (a workbook, curriculum, and facilitation resources) as well as findings from the testing of it in partnership with substance use and violence support programs across Canada.  Strong Women is a virtual social support group, designed to help anti-violence and substance use services better support women who have experienced both intimate partner violence and substance use concerns, encouraging their healing and recovery in an integrated way.  

Gender and Emergency Management: A Framework for Action

In this webinar, we present the Gendered Emergency Management Framework (GEM-F). This framework integrates sex, gender, equity, and trauma informed concepts across the emergency management continuum. Principles, practices, and guidance for gendered indicator development and exemplary initiatives, such as Gender and Disaster Australia, were discussed. The GEM-F is relevant to policy makers, emergency management officials, public health professionals, researchers, NGOs, and community-based organizations.

Communicating Equality to Prevent Violence Against Women & Girls

In this project, we engaged with communicators, journalists, violence prevention organizations, and men’s health groups to create campaign messages, as well as a toolkit, training module, and legacy website (www.communicatingequality.ca), focused on bringing gender transformative communication approaches into primary prevention of violence against women and girls (VAWG).

In this webinar, we present the messages and their development, and discuss how the toolkit and training can support others in developing their own gender transformative messages to prevent VAWG.

Women’s Chronic Pain & Prescription Opioids

This project involved creating sex, gender, equity, and trauma informed resources for providers that reflect women’s lived and living experiences with chronic pain and prescription opioids. We spoke with women with lived/living experiences, consulted with providers, examined the literature, and analyzed Canadian policy documents on chronic pain with a sex and gender lens.

In this webinar, we present our research findings and the resources we created for women and service providers, including infographics, treatment sheets, information packages, and a course for service providers or people interested in learning more about women’s chronic pain and experiences with prescribed opioids. We also discuss the incorporation of sex, gender, and equity factors into chronic pain and opioid use considerations for policy and practice.

Perspectives on vaping and pregnancy

This webinar is part of the Applying a sex, gender, trauma & equity lens to substance use webinar series.

While there has been some research on cannabis use during pregnancy, there is little on vaping cannabis during pregnancy and postpartum. More research on nicotine vaping is also required to equip service providers and support women in making informed decisions about vaping during pregnancy. The Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health conducted a literature review, and a mixed-methods study with women who vape during pregnancy and postpartum, in order to understand the motivations for vaping, and the information needs women had on health-related aspects of vaping during pregnancy and postpartum. In this webinar, we discuss the project findings, the resources that were created informed by women’s perspectives, and how they can be applicable to your practice.

Diverse women’s experiences with chronic pain and prescription opioid use

This webinar is part of the Applying a sex, gender, trauma & equity lens to substance use webinar series.

Sex and gender-related factors affect how people experience chronic pain and the quality of care received in healthcare settings. Women report more chronic pain than men and are more likely to be prescribed and rely on opioids for pain management. The Centre of Excellence for Women’s Health carried out research on women’s experiences with chronic pain and prescription opioid use. We interviewed 22 women from different geographic and social locations, who used prescribed opioids for chronic pain management. In this webinar, we share what we learned from these interviews and a scoping review of the literature and how this research can inform resources for health care providers.