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OCRCC responds to current issues related to sexual violence and the needs of sexual violence survivors. Read our press releases and our take on sexual violence trends in Ontario.

  • “I have to tell rape victims to come back in 11 months”: A counsellor at the Toronto Rape Crisis Centre, on the provincial funding cuts

    “The day in march 2018 when the Ontario Liberals announced their gender-based violence strategy, I cried with joy. The plan included $14.8 million in additional funding for Ontario’s rape crisis centres. [...]

    Published On: December 19, 2019

  • Statistics Canada: Almost 19% year over year increase in Sexual Assaults in Ontario

    Last week, Statistics Canada released recent findings of Incident-based crime statistics[1] in Canada. In these statistics, we can see that the prevalence of sexual assault in Ontario rose from 7,434 police-reported [...]

    Published On: July 29, 2019

  • What Survivors are saying about Ontario Sexual Assault Centres

    Published On: July 26, 2019

  • Supporting Sexual Violence Survivors

    Published On: July 15, 2019

  • Ontario Sexual Assault Centres: What We Do

    Published On: July 2, 2019

  • Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) Responds to Attack at synagogue in Poway, California and other targeted attacks

    Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) acknowledges and condemns the targeted violent attack at a Chabad synagogue in Poway, California, outside San Diego this weekend. Six months after the Pittsburgh [...]

    Published On: April 29, 2019

  • Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres responds to the Student Voices on Sexual Violence Survey findings

    Sexual violence can happen anywhere. Yet colleges and universities in Canada are home to those who are at the highest statistical risk of experiencing sexual violence: young women between the ages [...]

    Published On: March 21, 2019

  • Remember December 6

    On this date in 1989, a gunman killed 14 women at Montreal’s École Polytechnique, before killing himself. In the suicide note he left on his body, he described his rage against women and [...]

    Published On: December 6, 2018

  • Ontario’s Resolution R4 (on gender identity): OCRCC Responds

    Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) denounces resolution R4, the PC government's recent draft   resolution to not recognize gender identity. If confirmed, this resolution would guide the Ontario’s PC party’s [...]

    Published On: November 19, 2018

  • #SurvivorsCan’tWait: Ontario rape crisis centres still awaiting funding promised

    Included in the Ontario gender-based violence strategy was up to $14.8-million over three years to increase the capacity of current Sexual Assault Centres -- as well as open new ones in [...]

    Published On: October 26, 2018

  • Ontario: Won’t Say If They’ll Honour Funding Bump For Rape Crisis Centres

    Last week, NDP MPP Suze Morrison rose in question period to ask the Ontario Progressive Conservatives if they would honour the previous government's gender-based violence strategy, which included a promise to [...]

    Published On: October 26, 2018

  • Government repeals Ontario’s Sex Education Curriculum: OCRCC Responds

    This September, Ontario will revert to an outdated 1998 sex-ed curriculum. Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) believes that this shift will adversely impact Ontario’s young people. Providing comprehensive sex-ed [...]

    Published On: July 18, 2018