Domestic violence campaign highlights strangulation risks and femicide prevention

The campaign recognizes strangulation as one key predictor of femicide, where in Ontario, 37 women have been killed in 2024.

Advocates say campaigns such as the Take Your Breath Away can inform and save lives.

“Every one of those femicides had experienced strangulation by their current or former partner. And so, through this campaign, creating awareness, asking for because one of our calls to actions is that people not only track but that all the agencies involved in a survivor’s life, at whatever point, engage in strangulation-specific training so that we can actually together save lives, said Jaspreet Gill, executive director, York Region Center for Community Safety. Link to full story here.