Grants and Contributions:

Participants, professionals and service providers acquire knowledge and skills through information, training and support. Participants use and apply knowledge and skills to make positive behaviour changes.Participants experience enhanced health outcomes, improved wellbeing, and fewer negative lifelong impacts.Professionals and service providers adopt trauma- and violence- informed practices in all their activities, and use knowledge of effective programs and approaches to safely and effectively support those affected by or at risk of violence. Increased evidence is available on effective approaches to prevent family violence and address its health impacts.

The Preventing Family Violence program invests in the delivery and testing of health promotion programs and interventions that prevent family violence and improve health outcomes for survivors, including child maltreatment, youth dating violence, intimate partner violence, and elder abuse. Some interventions work directly with participants, while others equip health and social service professionals to respond safely and effectively. The main objective is to increase the uptake of effective health promotion interventions by funding research that builds the evidence base on what works, for whom, and where, using trauma- and violence-informed approaches. This program contributes to the Government of Canada's Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender-Based Violence.