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About Our Project > Mission Statement of the Canadian Observatory
The mission statement of a Canadian Observatory on the Justice System’s Response to Intimate Partner Violence is to work as a national research partnership to:
► Conduct research that will ensure the uptake of new knowledge by stakeholders and that will encourage a multi-sectoral coordinated effort to reduce and eliminate intimate partner violence, and to establish an effective system across Canada.
Aims of the Canadian Observatory
► Create a conduit for continual dialogue in both official languages among academics, frontline workers, professionals, provincial/territorial/federal government representatives, and interested individuals at the regional, national and international levels;
► Acknowledge expertise in the domain;
► Enhance the effectiveness of the system and provide accessibility of research findings to stakeholders involved on the issue;
► Integrate a training component to the studies by involving graduate and post-doctoral students;
► Invite experts from academia/communities to share their knowledge and practice skills;
► Develop a coordinated intersectoral approach to intimate partner violence;
► Promote effective responses to intimate partner violence with successful initiatives put in place in provinces/territories;
► Compare intimate partner violence policies/programs/services among provinces/territories, what works, what does not work;
► Establish a biennial National Conference on the justice system’s response and intimate partner violence to be held every two years.
