ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are incredibly grateful for the contributions made by our research participants. The rich stories they shared with us have provided immense insight into their challenges and innate strengths in navigating life. While their voices fill a much-felt void in the existing knowledge, their recommendations give direction to all disciplines and professionals engaged in supporting children who have directly or indirectly experienced family violence (FV). We admire their commitment, passion and desire to extend solidarity with other children through their stories and vision.

We acknowledge the support of different institutions that have made this research possible. We thank Toronto Metropolitan University’s and Sheridan College’s Research Ethics Boards for providing ethics clearance. We also acknowledge the support of Sarah Bukhari, Manager, Scholarly, Research & Creative Activity, Faculty of Community Services, Toronto Metropolitan University, for helping us with recruitment by circulating the recruitment flyer to students in schools within the Faculty.

This project would not have been possible without the support of the Toronto Metropolitan School of Social Work’s Field Education Department for identifying two students to work as Research Assistants on this project. Our gratitude goes to Karen Cove for her quest for knowledge, her untiring efforts at understanding the research issue from various angles and for bringing her years of practice-based wisdom to the project. We also acknowledge the enthusiasm, passion for learning and perseverance of Sophia Schmidt in making this project a success.

We have been fortunate to receive the exceptionally supportive foreword for this book from Dr. Peter Jaffe, Professor, Professor Emeritus, Western University. Receiving authentication and introduction for our work from Dr. Jaffe means a lot for our project, and we are deeply grateful to him. We want to thank Prof. Nicholas Bala, W.R. Lederman Distinguished University Professor, Faculty of Law, Queen’s University, for his incredible support and feedback on the draft of this report. Thank you to our esteemed colleagues from academia and practice who have provided endorsements to this book.

We want to thank our editor, Kerry Fast, for her careful editing of the manuscript. Thanks to Sheridan College student Rebecca Mathews for her help in uploading a draft of this book to the eCampus Ontario Pressbook website. Thanks also to Sanaya Chaze for the cover page design.

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