Research

Rise is a leading voice in family violence in family law. Rise started community-based research projects in 2017 to identify, and magnify existing systemic and structural inequalities perpetuating gender inequality in the the family law system. One of Rise’ s priorities through it’s research to focus on the impact of family violence and ensure the voices of survivors or those who continue to experience family violence are heard.

Rise started it’s first engagement through community-based research in 2017. This research was undertaken with the goal of understanding the challenges faced by clients and providing recommendations for improving existing family law systems. Rise received funding from Women and Gender Equality Canada (then Status of Women Canada) to explore how the family legal system in BC could improve its response to family violence. Rise partnered with the Center for Response-Based Practice for this interdisciplinary project. Three reports were published as a part of this project:

Why Can’t Everyone Just Get Along? How BC’s Family Law System Put’s Survivors in Danger highlighted the struggles survivors face in the family law system in BC, and made recommendations for how to improve family law to better support those who have experienced family violence.
Are We Ready To Change? A Lawyers Guide to Keeping Women and Children Safe in BC’s Family Law System provided recommendations for lawyers on how they can better support survivors of family violence.
Section 211 toolkit.

We know that bringing real change to the legal systems requires input from the community. Through our research we aim to start difficult conversations, amplify the voices of clients and support workers, and people who are directly impacted by the current legal system.

We continue our efforts of producing evidence-based research reports. See all our reports.

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