CHRISTIE PASCHAKIS - SOAR INITIATIVE FOUNDER
We are a small, Canadian non-profit which officially incorporated in 2023.
We focus on the long-term healing of survivors of sexual violence, intimate partner violence and child abuse through community connection.
Click to read our vision and mission, which guide our commitment to empowering survivors, fostering healing, and driving systemic change toward a future free from violence and injustice.
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A curated list of recommended reads on the topics of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and child abuse, as well as on trauma and self-healing.
All titles were recommended by survivors, advocates, and allies.
A curated list of recommended documentaries on the topics of sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and child abuse, as well as on trauma recovery.
All titles were recommended by survivors, advocates, and allies.
Your support helps make the work that SOAR Initiative Canada undertakes possible. Together we can change the language and help to dismantle the systemic barriers surrounding sexual violence, sex trafficking, domestic violence, and child abuse.
SOAR Initiative Canada Statement via Media Release on the upcoming trial of five former members of Canada’s 2018 World Juniors hockey team.
Full Statement from SOAR Initiative Canada on the New York Court of Appeals overturning the ruling in the 2020 Harvey Weinstein felony sex crime conviction.
The following content is provided by She Matters, a non-profit created by survivors, for survivors.
Clicking the logo will redirect you to their Survivor Support Platform.
We extend our sincere thanks to them for their valuable work and continued advocacy for survivors across Canada.
We at SOAR Initiative Canada acknowledge that our office is situated on the traditional territory of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. This land is encompassed within the Dish with One Spoon territory, a treaty forged among the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, the Anishinaabek, and allied nations, with the purpose of collaboratively sharing and preserving the land, its waters, and all the biodiversity within the Great Lakes region.
SOAR Initiative Canada acknowledges our duty to recognize the historical and persistent legacy of colonialism, along with our complicity in perpetuating its continued impacts today. Indigenous Peoples continue to protect their lands and waters from settler colonization and capitalism; they face disproportionate marginalization, impoverishment, racism, and a distressing epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and two-spirit people. SOAR Initiative Canada gratefully acknowledges these nations, and all Indigenous Peoples living across Turtle Island for their continued guardianship of this land.