Show menu Show menu
Close

For crisis intervention or mental distress: Provincial Mental Health and Addictions Crisis Line:
1-888-429-8167

For Confidential support to post-secondary students in Nova Scotia:
Good2Talk: 1-833-292-3698
or text GOOD2TALKNS to 686868

Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner program for the Halifax area:
902-425-0122

Get toll-free numbers for other Nova Scotia regions

 

EMERGENCY CONTACT
If you are in immediate danger, call 911.

Get Help Now
Indian Female
Recommendations

Providing consent education

Create and promote avenues for comprehensive consent education.

Participants often expressed a desire for nuanced information about consent that goes beyond the simplistic “no means no.” Many were interested in information about the various ways that consent can be expressed as well as the conditions under which consent can and cannot occur.

Delving Deeper Resources

  • The Courage to Act Report (Khan & Bidgood, 2019)
    The Courage to Act Report includes a section entitled "Factors to help student education onhealthy relationships and consent" on pages 98-100.
    Go to resource

Self-serve Resources

  • Supporting Survivors of Sexual Violence: A Nova Scotia Resource
    According to its homepage, "This training is designed to help you learn more about sexual violence and how to support someone who has survived it. It is for service providers, friends, family members, neighbours, teachers, first responders, counselors, and anyone who is acting as a support person, or is concerned about sexual violence." Information about consent, including legal definitions of consent, are provided.
    Go to resource