Retranche la violence (Exiting violence): A project with Transformative Impact on Practices and Policies in Quebec: Development and Implementation of the Partnership Workstream
This webinar was presented and recorded on March 31, 2026
Description
Retranche la violence (Exiting violence) is a major action research project conducted in Quebec and funded by the SSHRC Partnership Program (2023-2030). It brings together approximately sixty members from community and institutional practice settings, political circles (Justice and Health and Social Services), and academia. The unifying objective of all these members is to study the factors that facilitate the exit of intimate, family, and structural violence, and then to integrate these factors into social practices and policies.
This presentation will begin with a general explanation of the project's origins, objectives, and various workstreams. Following this, we will do a deep dive into the workstream most closely aligned with the objectives of Awareness to Action (A2A), namely, the one documenting collaborative and partnership practices within the project. In this second part, the development process of a tool designed to assess collaboration within the partnership, along with some preliminary results, will be shared. The presentation will conclude with a reflection on the relevance and value of this scientific and reflective approach to the partnership project.
Speakers
Geneviève Lessard, Ph.D., is a full professor at the School of Social Work and Criminology at Université Laval. She directs the RAIV Strategic Research Group (Applied and Interdisciplinary Research on Intimate, Family and Structural Violence), funded by the Fonds de recherche du Québec, as well as the SSHRC Partnership project entitled "Retranche la violence". Her work focuses on the various forms of victimization experienced by children, including exposure to spousal and family violence, the development and evaluation of innovative prevention tools, parenting, and collaboration among spousal and family violence support resources.
Célyne Lalande, Ph.D., is a professor in the Department of Social Work at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. She is a social worker with clinical experience working with victims of crime. Her research interests include socio-legal intervention, professional collaboration, domestic violence, practical training, and program evaluation.
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