Grant: Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant: Gender, Sex and Health

Housing and violence are key determinants of women's and overall population health. The multiple and overlapping barriers to housing that many women face after leaving violence put their health in double jeopardy. Yet there is a lack of understanding at public, policy, and programming levels about the these barriers. The BC Non-Profit Housing Association, in partnership with the BC Yukon Society of Transition Houses has conducted a community-based Photovoice research project designed to generate evidence to translate into action. In order to build on the Knowledge Translation (KT) mandate of this project, the purpose of the proposed activity is to initiate the development of and funding for a multi-purpose Tool Kit to address women's barriers to housing after fleeing violenceby by holding a 2-day interactive workshop. This workshop will allow the existing research team to build on its active and successful intersectoral and interdisciplinary partnerships. It will also create the opportunity to generate an innovative KT Tool that can serve a range of functions, be used by multiple stakeholders, and reach diverse audiences. The intended outcomes of this proposal are a draft structure of the Tool Kit content and components, and the preparation of a grant application for its full development. The ultimate impact of the proposed activities will be to raise awareness publically and politically on, and begin to redress, the barriers to housing faced by women fleeing violence, in effort to ultimately improve their access to this important determinant of health.