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 funds and tests health promotion interventions that prevent family violence and support survivors, including child maltreatment, youth dating violence, intimate partner violence, and elder abuse. Some initiatives work directly with individuals, while others strengthen the capacity of health and social service professionals. Its goal is to expand the use of effective, trauma‑ and violence‑informed interventions by building evidence on what works, for whom, and in which contexts. The program supports Canada’s Strategy to Prevent and Address Gender‑Based Violence.