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This page provides quick access to campaign assets designed for creators, organizations, and community partners who want to help amplify Staying isn’t Choosing. Here you’ll find ready-to-use graphics, copy, and branding elements that make sharing simple while keeping the campaign’s message consistent.
Whether you’re posting on social media, including a mention in a newsletter, or sharing resources with your network, these tools ensure that every voice contributes to a unified call — raising awareness, challenging harmful narratives, and connecting survivors to support.
Media Toolkit
Use any of the elements below to share the campaign across your own channels. From graphics and videos to pre-written posts, these resources are ready to help you amplify the Staying isn’t Choosing message while keeping the brand consistent and impactful.
Series Teasers
Every story of abuse is more complicated than it looks.
Every survivor’s story is shaped by barriers, fear, and impossible choices. By understanding the realities of intimate partner violence, we can replace judgment with compassion and strengthen the supports that make leaving, or staying, safer for survivors and their families.
Because the truth is… staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving. Learn more at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
The question isn’t why they stayed — it’s why they were abused.
People often ask survivors why didn’t they just leave. The truth is: staying is not about choosing abuse — it’s about survival, connection, and barriers. Five stories reveal the impossible choices survivors face and the realities too often misunderstood.
Five stories. One powerful truth. Watch the series at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
Video Series
When family minimizes abuse instead of naming it, silence replaces support — and survivors are left carrying shame across generations.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving under the weight of silence, shame, and generational pressure.
Each story reveals the barriers survivors face. Watch the full series at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
Abuse doesn’t always leave bruises. Financial control and isolation create invisible chains that strip away freedom and independence.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving financial dependence and isolation that strip away freedom.
Each story reveals the barriers survivors face. Watch the full series at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
Gaslighting leaves no scars, but it destroys self-trust. Survivors are left doubting their own reality while blame shifts to them.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving manipulation, blame, and the erosion of self-trust.
Each story reveals the barriers survivors face. Watch the full series at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving cycles of harm and affection that bind survivors in trauma bonds of fear and hope.
Each story reveals the barriers survivors face. Watch the full series at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
When physical violence mixes with coercive control, leaving isn’t simple. Survivors weigh safety against children’s longing for home, while moments of tenderness blur with harm. These conflicting pressures show why leaving is not just a decision, but an impossible calculation of risk and survival.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving impossible choices within fear, hope, and control.
Each story reveals the barriers survivors face. Watch the full series at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
Myth vs Reality
Many stay because of threats, fear of losing children, or risks of homelessness — not because the abuse isn’t serious.
Because the truth is… staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving. Learn more at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
Emotional abuse can be just as devastating as physical violence, leaving survivors with deep scars of fear, shame, and self-doubt that outsiders cannot see.
Every survivor’s story is shaped by fear, pressure, and impossible choices. See the reality at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
The cycle of abuse is built on manipulation, alternating between harm and affection. These trauma bonds make leaving incredibly difficult and dangerous.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving under invisible chains. Find out more at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
Stories & Impact
Behind every survivor’s story is a mix of love, fear, and impossible choices. These voices remind us that judgment has no place here — only compassion.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving. Every story matters. Learn more at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
Family and community pressure can reinforce the abuser’s control, silencing survivors instead of supporting them. Judgment doesn’t help — compassion does.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving. Every story matters. Learn more at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
The danger doesn’t end when survivors walk out the door — often, it escalates. Leaving is not just a decision. It can be a life-threatening risk.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving. Every story matters. Learn more at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
Separation is often the most dangerous time for survivors. Abuse escalates when control is challenged, making leaving a life-threatening risk.
Because the truth is… staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving. Learn more at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
Children are deeply impacted by intimate partner violence. Many survivors stay because of fear of losing custody or because children long for home. But safety, stability, and resources are what families truly need.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving impossible risks. See more at stayingisntchoosing.ca.
For Indigenous 2SLGBTQ+ survivors, these risks overlap — creating some of the highest rates of violence in Canada.
Staying isn’t choosing. It’s surviving in a context of compounded risk. Learn more at stayingisntchoosing.ca.