Summary

Funded by Women's Xchange 15k Challenge and guided by an advisory group of trans community members and their allies, the Network Program Managers/Coordinators and nursing staff were surveyed in 2017 about their ability to provide sensitive, informed, and appropriate acute health services for trans survivors of sexual assault and identified a pressing need for (further) training on trans-affirming care. 

  • Publications
  • KT Tools
  • Acknowledgements

Publications

  • Du Mont, J., Kosa, S.D., Abavi, R., Kia, H., & Macdonald, S. (2019). Towards affirming care: An initial evaluation of a sexual violence treatment network’s capacity for addressing the needs of trans sexual assault survivors. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 1-20. doi.org/10.1177/0886260519889943

  • Du Mont, J., Kosa, D., Solomon, S., & Macdonald, S. (2019). An assessment of nurses’ competence to care for sexually assaulted trans persons: A survey of Ontario’s Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centres. BMJ Open, 9(5), e023880. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2018-023880

Knowledge Translation Tools

Funder

This project was funded by Women’s Xchange.

Research Team

  • Principal Investigator: Janice Du Mont, Women’s College Research Institute- Women’s College Hospital;
  • Community Lead: Sheila Macdonald, Ontario Network of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centres; and
  • Project Coordinators: Daisy Kosa, Ontario Network of Sexual Assault/Domestic Violence Treatment Centres, Maeve Patterson, Women’s College Research Institute- Women’s College Hospital.

Collaborators 

Advisory Group

  • Devon MacFarlane, Rainbow Health Ontario;
  • Kathleen Pye, Egale Canada Human Rights Trust;
  • Cheryl Woodman, Women’s College Hospital;
  • Kinnon MacKinnon, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto; and
  • Hannah Kia, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.