After decades of activism, the fight against intimate partner violence is gaining momentum and we need your support to continue moving this fight forward.
Declaring IPV an epidemic is important because it:
- Highlights how widespread intimate partner violence is
- Addresses the health and social impacts including physical injuries, mental health issues, substance abuse, and even death
- Allows our healthcare systems and other organizations to dedicate more funding, research and social services to ending violence
- Increases public awareness
- Fights stigma
- Gives public services the mandate to build up prevention tools, not just crisis response
A similar bill was introduced in the Nova Scotia legislature on September 12, 2024 and, with the support of Unifor, it was passed immediately and unanimously.
Ontario can and must do this, too.
Please take a moment now to tell MPPs to declare intimate partner violence an epidemic!
