The Steel City Ally Community Campaign calls upon allies to end gender-based violence. Through an online promise (or pledge), allies can take their #firststepfirstchange. This is a call to action to end gender-based violence. In Canada, a woman or girl is killed every...
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Professional Athletes Challenging Rigid Gender Roles
Professional athletes play an important role towards ending gender-based violence, by challenging rigid gender roles and toxic masculinity. Rigid societal roles often support the framework that perpetuates gender-based violence. When young boys are raised believing...
SportHamilton Joins Be More Than A Bystander
Interval House of Hamilton is excited to welcome SportHamilton, as they join an impressive list of community partners working to end gender-based violence. SportHamilton will join forces with The Hamilton Tiger Cats, The Hamilton Bulldogs, McMaster University...
Be More Than A Bystander Awareness Month
Each February, we bring awareness to our Be More Than A Bystander campaign. The Be More Than A Bystander campaign is a layered approach and focusses on educating, advocating and rallying allies to end gender-based violence. In the month of February, we focus on...
Why Doesn’t She Just Leave? Let’s Reframe that…
Part of my work includes training and raising awareness to end gender-based violence. Without fail, at some point during a training, I am always asked the question: "Why doesn't she just leave?" The question seems so simple... so innocent... yet, it yields a glimpse...
MentorAction Joins the North American MenEngage Network (NAMEN)
In 2020, MentorAction became a member of the North American MenEngage Network (NAMEN) Beginning January 2021, Sue Taylor (Co-Chair of MentorAction) will serve on NAMEN’s Board. NAMEN is a network of organizations and individuals from Canada and the United States with...