The Parkdale Women’s Leadership Group and the Community Safety Committee for Mutual Aid Parkdale are collaborating to provide a series of workshops on Community Safety and Wellness every Monday from 6-8PM throughout February and March 2021.
With the second wave of COVID-19 underway and sustained movements for racial justice and defunding the police, we have been hearing growing calls from community members to skill up and offer new forms of care and support in moments of crisis that do not rely on the police. We offered the following trainings with local facilitators to build community solidarity and learning:
- Navigating Crisis
- Mental Health and Wellness
- Harm Reduction
- Suicide Prevention
- Conflict Resolution
- Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence
- Self Defense
- Transformative Justice
- Community Healing
MONDAY EVENINGS FROM 6-8PM | FEB 1, 2021 – MAR 29, 2021
Please see below for the recordings and resources from our workshops:
- February 1, 2021: Navigating Crisis with Naty Tremblay (RSVP Here)
- February 8, 2021: Mental Health and Wellness with Leo Edwards (RSVP Here)
- February 15, 2021: Harm Reduction with Liz Merlos and Liam Michaud (RSVP Here)
- February 22, 2021: Conflict Resolution with Kaydeen Bankasingh (RSVP Here)
- March 1, 2021: Suicide Prevention with Cassandra Smith (RSVP Here)
- March 8, 2021: Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence with Naomi Martey (RSVP Here)
- March 15, 2021: Self Defense with Jennifer LaFontaine (RSVP Here)
- March 22, 2021: Transformative Justice with Naty Tremblay (RSVP Here)
- Recording, Slides, and Resources:
- What is Transformative Justice: Video Series (Project Nia and the Barnard Center for Research on Women)
- Turning Towards Each Other: A Conflict Workbook (Jovida Ross & Weyam Ghadbian)
- Interactive Guide to Safety Planning (National Domestic Violence Hotline)
- Pod Mapping Worksheet (Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective)
- Case Studies with TJ Practices (Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective)
- The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
- Recording, Slides, and Resources:
- March 29, 2021: Community Healing with Khalil Dorival, Mutual Aid Parkdale and Parkdale Women’s Leadership Group (RSVP Here)
For more information, contact Beryl-Ann Mark at bmark@parc.on.ca or (416) 803-9594.
Special thanks to Recipe for Community – a funding partnership between the City of Toronto and the Toronto Foundation – for generous support for this project.
