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THUNDER BAY — Local agencies and service providers say a city declaration that intimate partner and gender-based violence is an epidemic may lead to pressure on governments to take action.
Gwen O'Reilly, the executive director of the Northwestern Ontario Women's Centre and a member of the District Coordinating Committee to End Woman Abuse, said the coordinating committee includes representatives from several sectors, including police, child welfare, women's shelters, and victim services.
O'Reilly said that while the epidemic declaration would largely be symbolic on the city's part, it could put pressure on senior levels of government to address the other recommendations."There were many other recommendations that were a system-wide, that looked at collaboration among agencies, law reform changes to court and other processes," she said in an interview on Wednesday.
Information provided by the Northwestern Ontario Women's Centre shows that as of Aug. 1, more than 40 municipalities in Ontario independently supported a declaration elsewhere or declared their own intimate partner violence epidemic, with Toronto being one of the most recent cities to do so.
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