The month of November is Domestic Violence Prevention and Awareness Month in Canada. The Portage Family Abuse Prevention Centre in Portage is gearing up with events and fundraisers to promote the centre, and the significance of the month. Executive Director Joyce Schrader says they currently have a fundraiser with local partners.

"We're very blessed to have Royal Lepage and Diamond D Auto Sales have a fundraiser for us. Just go to the Royal Lepage office and pick up some books if you want to promote and help us this month, that would be wonderful," says Schrader.

Schrader says raffle tickets are five dollars and you get entered to win a new garden shed, garden tools and equipment worth $4,500.

The centre will also be part of an event at the Canadian Human Rights Museum next week with the Manitoba Association of Women's Shelters and author Margo Goodhand, who wrote a book about the origins of the women's shelter movement in Canada. They also still provide healthy relationship training within our schools to promote healthy relationships among our youth.

In terms of domestic violence, Schrader says it's still an issue that impacts all of us locally and globally.

"It looks different throughout the world, but it's all the same, and I don't know when that'll change. I certainly hope we all keep on our toes, and help our own people here figure that out so we're all just able to live as we should, without any bias, without any mysoginistic attitudes so that everyone can thrive," Schrader says.

To find out more about any of the events or the fundraiser, contact Schrader at the Family Abuse Prevention Centre.