Under the Department of Justice's Framework for Action Against Family Violence, eight Victim Support Services Projects were established in 1996 as a community-based response to spousal/intimate partner violence. ###>En vertu du Cadre d'intervention contre la violence familiale du ministère de la Justice, on établissait, en 1996, huit projets de service de soutien des victimes qui constituaient une réponse de la collectivité à la violence conjugale.