Resources
Trainings, webinars, and workshops
SFCC Bystander Intervention and Sexual Violence Prevention Training
SFCC offers a range of training to meet the needs of your collective, organisation, or club.
The SFCC Bystander Intervention and Sexual Violence Prevention Training has been implemented at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario since Spring 2017. Over 1,000 students have participated in the 90-minute peer-led training session since the Carleton University Students’ Association passed a motion to make it mandatory for Clubs & Societies to participate if they receive their funding from the Association.
Over the past two years, we have developed and facilitated trainings that extend beyond this introduction to consent and sexual violence. Topics have ranged from:
Digital harassment
Sexual and gender-based violence policy grading
Understanding and enacting consent
Advocating for standards of care in policy and legislation
Anti-oppressive practices in organisations and organising
Compassionate information gathering
Our engaging training sessions are developed with key learning outcomes for attendees and always include participatory activities, space for debriefing and discussing difficult or challenging issues, and question and answer periods. They can be developed for time frames ranging from 1 to 3 hours.
Our team is also available to speak at your events and conferences.
For information about getting SFCC training or to have a team member speak at your event, please contact education@sfcccanada.org or outreach@sfcccanada.org to learn more.
BC Sexual Violence Training and Resources Working Group
From 2019–2020, SFCC members and allies participated in Sexual Violence Training and Resources Working Group, a provincial community of practice that led to a number of resources for campuses in BC. The toolkit “Evaluating Sexual Violence Training and Resources” was developed by the working group to support administrators and student groups in assessing the relevance and quality of training they are inviting onto their campus or developing. This interactive workbook invites users to think deeply about the values, ethics, and ideologies they wish to engage in teaching campus communities about violence.
Click here to read the Evaluating Sexual Violence Training and Resources toolkit
SFCC Glossary
Click here to check out the SFCC Glossary that defines our interpretation of the terms we use in our anti-sexual violence work.
Resources for Perpetrators & Transformative Justice
Part of taking an intersectional approach to sexual violence is the recognition that anyone can be a victim of sexual violence and that, similarly, anyone has the capacity to harm. Because of our experience growing up within rape culture, we are often not given the tools to be able to see, acknowledge, unpack, and address the harm we have caused. We share these resources for folks who have perpetuated harm to be able to use when looking for resources or first steps toward accountability.
The reading or use of these materials on their own by no means is an accountability process in and of itself, and should not be treated as a ‘checkbox’ in addressing harm. Instead, we hope these links serve as a jumping off point for larger discussions both at the individual level and within communities of how we continue to perpetuate, and how we can begin to address and prevent further violence in our communities.
Click here for our list of external resources for perpetrators, as well as resources for communities experiencing internal violence and folks who are interested in learning more about transformative justice.
Sexual Violence and the Law
Putting Trials on Trial: Sexual Assault and the Failure of the Legal Profession – Elaine Craig
Troubling Sex: Towards a Legal Theory of Sexual Integrity – Elaine Craig
SEXUAL ASSAULT IN CANADA: Law, Legal Practice and Women’s Activism – Elizabeth A. Sheehy
Carnal Crimes: Sexual Assault Law in Canada, 1900-1975 – Constance Backhouse