REACH stands for Research Education and Action to Create Health and Hope for survivors of violence. REACH is a working group of nurses, social workers, physicians and other health care providers at Women's College Hospital who are interested in improving the hospital's response to intimate partner violence. REACH developed Sunnybrook and Women's policy on intimate partner abuse and now provides ongoing education about intimate partner abuse to health care providers.

WCRI researcher scientist Dr. Robin Mason heads the REACH initiative and works with the group to deliver and evaluate the violence-related education programs at Women's College Hospital. Recently, Dr. Mason, nurse Eileen McMahon, and other members of the program completed an evaluation of a staff training program that prompts health care providers in all areas of the hospital to recognize the signs of woman abuse and offer appropriate care to the individuals involved.

The REACH program has created the Art Not Violence project. This project generated a poster and a series of postcards, which promote treatment services for woman abuse at Women's College Hospital and provide much-needed visibility about violence against women and children. Sales of the Violence Hurts Everyone poster help fund the REACH initiative. A image gallery of art work from the Art Not Violence campaign is available on the Women's Health Matters website.

Posters can be purchased for $7 each (plus $5 shipping and handling). Actual poster size is 17" x 22".

To order your poster, print the poster order form below and fax it to us (attention: Art Not Violence) at (416) 351-3746, or send the completed order form with payment (cheques only) to:
Art Not Violence Poster
c/o Women's College Research Institute
790 Bay Street, 7th Floor
Toronto, ON M5G 1N8
 • Poster Order Form (PDF file)