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The Freda Centre for Research on Violence against Women and Children

The FREDA Centre began in 1992 as one of the original five violence research centres funded by SSHRC and Heath Canada. It is housed within the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver. Its mandate is to facilitate and conduct collaborative participatory action research on violence against women and children, in order to raise awareness and affect relevant policy, procedure, programming and development. The Centre has worked with provincial and federal governments, such as Justice and Health, and the Office of the Representative of Children and Youth, as well as with other universities. However, it primarily collaborates with community-based organizations, such as the BC Society of Transition Houses, EVA BC, and has worked with West Coast LEAF and the Rise Women’s Legal Centre.

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