The Housing Crisis & Coercive Control
The Housing Crisis and Coercive Control
Haley Hrymak
verified 1.0 CPD (Ethics)
play_lesson 1 hour of content
local_offer CA$125
This 1-hour course explains the unique challenges survivors of family violence face and how lawyers can apply this research in their practice. It will help you better support survivors navigating BC’s housing crisis and family law system.
How housing problems can trap clients in unsafe situations and what practical steps you can take to help.
Rise Women’s Legal Centre’s 2025 report, “Should I Have Just Stayed?” Improving Family Law Remedies for Survivors During BC’s Housing Crisis, which shows the dangerous effects of BC’s housing crisis on women and gender diverse people. The first in-depth study of its kind, the report shows that, though the housing crisis in BC is affecting everyone, it can be life-threatening to survivors of intimate partner and family violence.
This course breaks down the intersection with the housing crisis and violence, to understand how perpetrators use coercive control.
Course Curriculum
Introduction
1
ondemand_video Instructor Bio and Land Acknowledgement
description Rise’s Housing Research Report
ondemand_video Training Agenda and Objectives
BC’S Housing Crisis
2
ondemand_video Why Call it Housing Crisis?
ondemand_video The Numbers on Housing
ondemand_video Intersecting Identities
The Housing Crisis and Family Violence
3
ondemand_video Family Violence
ondemand_video Housing Crisis and Family Violence
ondemand_video Lack of Safe Options
ondemand_video Hidden Homelessness
4
The Housing Crisis And Coercive Control
ondemand_video Coercive Control and Misconceptions
ondemand_video Threats and Intimidation
ondemand_video Economic Abuse
ondemand_video Social Isolation
5
Putting Into Practice
ondemand_video Practical Considerations
ondemand_video Screening
ondemand_video Safety Planning
ondemand_video Key Takeaway
ondemand_video Legal Counsel Connect
Additional Readings
6
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7
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About the Instructor
Haley Hrymak (she/her) is a staff lawyer at Rise Women’s Legal Centre and conducts original research to support Rise’s goal of providing responsive family law services to women and gender diverse people in BC. On behalf of Rise, Haley has led numerous research projects on family violence and its intersection with the family law system. Haley began working at Rise in 2018 and is grateful for the opportunity to work towards systemic change in her role.
Haley was called to the bar in 2015 and holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Manitoba, and a LL.M from UBC. Outside of Rise she is a PhD Candidate at UBC’s Peter A. Allard School of Law where her research focuses on economic abuse and BC’s child support system.
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