PDFs available
Abuse & family violence
Checklist: What to Take When You Leave
Checklist: What to Take When You Leave
Important documents and items to take with you when you leave an abusive partner.
Checklist: What to Take When You Leave
Liste de vérification: choses à prendre avec vous
Documents et objets importants à emporter avec vous lorsque vous quittez un conjoint violent.
For Your Protection
For Your Protection
Explains how and when you can get peace bonds and family law protection orders, and what the differences are between them
Getting Help from the Police or RCMP
Getting Help from the Police or RCMP
If you’re in danger from an abusive partner and you want help from the police
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Refugees & immigrants
If Your Sponsor Abuses You
If Your Sponsor Abuses You
Explains how to protect yourself if you’re afraid for your safety because your sponsor is abusing you
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Refugees & immigrants
Keeping Your Children Safe
Keeping Your Children Safe
Explains what to do if your partner has abused or threatened you or your children
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Refugees & immigrants, Child protection/removal
Men Abused by Their Partners
Men Abused by Their Partners
For men who are concerned about their safety because their female partner is mistreating them
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Refugees & immigrants
Mothers Leaving Abusive Partners
Mothers Leaving Abusive Partners
For women with children who’ve been abused by their intimate partner: how to get help and protection, and how to handle parenting arrangements.
Protection Orders
Protection Orders
Explains what to do if you’re afraid for your safety because your partner abused you and you need to protect yourself or your children.
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Refugees & immigrants
Safety Planning
Safety Planning
Explains what to do if your partner is abusing you and you need help to stay safe
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Refugees & immigrants
The Criminal Court Process (leaving abuse)
The Criminal Court Process (leaving abuse)
Explains the legal process if your partner is charged with assault and has to go to court and you may have to be a witness
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Crimes & offences, Refugees & immigrants
What to Do About Money (leaving abuse)
What to Do About Money (leaving abuse)
Explains how to support yourself and your children if you leave an abusive partner
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Refugees & immigrants
When You’re Told to Have “No Contact”
When You’re Told to Have “No Contact”
Explains what it means when the court makes a no contact order against you
Abuse & family violence, Crimes & offences, Legal system & courts
Who Can Help? (leaving abuse)
Who Can Help? (leaving abuse)
If you or someone you know is being abused, get information about people and agencies that can help.
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Refugees & immigrants
Women Abused by Their Partners
Women Abused by Their Partners
For women who are afraid for their safety or their children’s safety because their partner is mistreating them
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Refugees & immigrants
Child protection/removal
If You Can’t Get Legal Aid for Your Child Protection Case
If You Can’t Get Legal Aid for Your Child Protection Case
How to get a court-appointed lawyer for a complicated child protection hearing if you can’t get legal aid but can’t afford a lawyer
Keeping Aboriginal Kids Safe
Keeping Aboriginal Kids Safe
Explains the child protection process for Aboriginal children and families
Keeping Your Children Safe
Keeping Your Children Safe
Explains what to do if your partner has abused or threatened you or your children
Separation & divorce, Abuse & family violence, Refugees & immigrants, Child protection/removal
Parents Legal Centre brochure
Parents Legal Centre brochure
Describes Parents Legal Centre, a free service in select locations for parents with child protection issues who qualify.
Legal help & lawyers, Child protection/removal, Promotional materials
Parents Legal Centre brochure
Centre juridique pour les parents
Décrit le Parents Legal Centre, un service gratuit dans certains endroits pour les parents ayant des problèmes de protection de l’enfance qui sont admissibles.
Legal help & lawyers, Child protection/removal, Promotional materials
Parents’ Rights, Kids’ Rights
Parents’ Rights, Kids’ Rights
Explains what happens if the ministry has concerns about your child’s safety or plans to remove your child from your home
Wrapping Our Ways Around Them
Wrapping Our Ways Around Them
Guide to empower Indigenous Nation and community involvement in caring for Indigenous children.
Crimes & offences
Defending Yourself: Assault
Defending Yourself: Assault
Describes how to defend yourself if you’re charged with assault
Defending Yourself: Breach of a Court Order
Defending Yourself: Breach of a Court Order
Describes how to defend yourself if you’re charged with breach of a court order