“The moment we surrender our capacity to believe another world is possible is the moment it becomes true.” - Kai Cheng Thom

Helping a Friend

Telling someone about violence, abuse, harassment, or coercion takes a tremendous amount of bravery. Most survivors never tell a helping professional about the violence they have experienced.

Recognizing Risk

By learning the signs of lethality in an abusive relationship, friends and family can help to keep women and children safe and prevent femicide.

Why Femicide Inquests are Important

Inquests provide an opportunity for a public examination of a death in the context of looking for system changes that could prevent similar such deaths in the future.

Understanding Violence, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterDecember 5, 2022sexual assault, prevention, taking action, support, skills, violence, understanding violence, femicide, faro, yukon, inquest, domestic homocide

We Remember Sang and Patrick

A year ago today, Saengduean Honchaiyaphum (Sang to her friends) and Patrick McCracken were murdered by her ex-husband in Faro, Yukon.

Understanding Violence, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterOctober 26, 2022sexual assault, prevention, taking action, support, skills, violence, understanding violence, femicide, faro, yukon

Signs of High Risk

By learning the signs of lethality in an abusive relationship, friends and family can help to keep women and children safe and prevent femicide.

What is Femicide?

Women are five times more at risk of being killed by their partner than men are.

Understanding Violence, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterNovember 1, 2021sexual assault, prevention, taking action, support, skills, violence, understanding violence, femicide, faro, yukon

Yukon Women’s Coalition Offers Condolences to Community of Faro

This act of violence has caused immeasurable grief that be felt by the victims, their families, the community of Faro and throughout the Yukon.

Understanding Violence, Taking ActionDawson Women's ShelterOctober 29, 2021sexual assault, prevention, taking action, support, skills, violence, understanding violence, femicide, faro, yukon

Signs of High Risk

Although we don’t want to think about violence happening in our community, knowing how to separate what partner violence really looks like versus what we’re taught in the media, can have a big impact on the folks you are near to.

Education, Helping A FriendDawson Women's ShelterNovember 29, 2020sexual assault, sexual violence, prevention, taking action, 16 Days, 16 Days of Activism, support, skills, violence, power, high risk, lethality, femicide, safety, helping a friend, lethal

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