Institut PEVC

Published purpose

Through this 12-month project, the PEVC Institute will expand the Protecting Children Against Domestic Violence (PEVC) model in order to bolster the GBV sector. It will amplify this promising practice by including a specific component dedicated to intervention in immigration contexts or with racialized families for youth protection services across Quebec. The project will help professionals in the youth protection sector feel better equipped and more competent to intervene with immigrant or racialized families. To achieve this, the project will include three key phases: the exploration phase, the development phase, and the implementation and evaluation phase. The exploration phase will consist of a literature review and consultation with partners and immigrant or racialized people who are victims of domestic violence in order to document the issues encountered and the needs of professionals in the field. The development phase will involve adapting and enhancing the content and tools of the PEVC model to better serve the project’s target population, as well as preparing the evaluation framework. The final implementation and evaluation phase will consist of making final adjustments to the tools before deploying the adapted material to youth protection professionals. The PEVC Institute will provide training content adapted to the reality of intervention in the context of domestic violence with immigrant or racialized families in order to inform trained professionals and project partners about the promising practice so they can reproduce or expand on it.