Navigating BC's Housing Crisis as a Survivor of Violence

How the housing crisis impacts survivors, their safety, and financial stability.

This 1-hour course equips family law professionals with the knowledge to support survivors facing housing challenges, violence, and financial insecurity while navigating the family law system.

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Haley Hrymak examines Rise’s groundbreaking research to explore how gaps in the family law system can prevent survivors from leaving unsafe relationships or force them to return. This training highlights the critical challenges survivors face in securing safe, affordable housing for themselves, their children, and their pets, and examines how housing instability directly impacts family law outcomes.

Designed for family law lawyers and professionals, this course equips participants with the specialized knowledge needed to effectively support survivors navigating and BC’s housing crisis.

• Course Curriculum

  1. Introduction

  2. Pets and Family Violence

  3. Violence and Finding Safe Housing

  4. Unaffordability

  5. National Occupancy Standards

  6. Precarious Living Conditions

  7. Financial Security After Separation
     

• Learning Objectives

  1. Analyze how the housing crisis increases survivors’ vulnerability to violence, housing instability, and financial insecurity.

  2. Develop the knowledge and skills required to support survivors navigating family law matters in the context of housing challenges.
     

  3. Apply strategies to assist survivors in identifying and accessing safe, affordable, and sustainable housing options.
     

  4. Evaluate effective approaches for navigating the family law system during housing crises to better support survivor safety and well-being.manipulate, and restrict survivors’ choices and safety.

  5. Apply knowledge of housing-related violence and coercive control by incorporating trauma-informed and survivor-centered approaches into professional practice.

• About the Instructor

  Haley Hrymak (she/her) was a staff lawyer at Rise Women’s Legal Centre who conducted 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 led numerous research projects on family violence and its intersection with the family law system. 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. 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.

We offer special student and group pricing to support your learning.
Reach out to education@womenslegalcentre.ca to find out more.

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