MMFC: In Conversation
Podcast Description
MMFC: In Conversation was started with the goal of creating tangible and accessible outcomes for research dissemination, while encouraging more community conversations around family and gender-based violence.
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The podcast centers around topics like the impacts of domestic/intimate partner violence, community engagement in the fight against violence, and research dissemination, with episodes such as the pilot discussing the effects of COVID-19 on New Brunswick's D/IPV sector and the experiences of support staff in transition homes.
In Conversation is a podcast hosted and produced by the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Centre for Family Violence Research at the University of New Brunswick. Together with our guests we discuss gender-based violence in Atlantic Canada with researchers, front-line workers, and the wider community.
Content warning: sexual violence, physical violence, deathof children, car accidents, intimate partner violence, domestic violence, stalking, use of weapons, coercive control, financial abuse. Please take care while listening.
In this episode, Dr. Stefanie Hunt-Kennedy (Director of the MMFC) is in conversation with Sarah Sherman of We’re Here for You Canada. We’re Here for You Canada provides immediate emotional support for survivors of sexual violence with trauma-informed comfort kits. In this episode, Sarah tells Stefanie about her own experiences of intimate partner and family violence, how this experience led to the creation of We’re Here for You Canada, and how the organization is expanding with country-wide hospital partnerships. Please visit https://werehereforyoucanada.ca/ to learn more.
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