ABSTRACT
In the lead-up to initiating FGDM, the three invited sites each organized extensive community dialogue on the model and reached consensus on participating in the project. The sites had quite distinctive ways of organizing that grew out of their cultures—rural, Inuit, and urban—and their histories of community upheaval and devaluation of women's labor. The provincial government quickly came on board with the model because of widespread public dismay over revelations of child sexual and physical abuse and the resulting erosion of trust in church and legal authorities. Feminists, provincially and locally, supported the effort as another way to help women and their children beyond the shelter doors. The communities and government departments together formed local and provincial systems of emergent responsive regulation to support the leadership of families and their cultural networks in eradicating family violence.
