Grants and Contributions

This 24-months project will support organizational capacity building activities to advance efforts to identify and address issues affecting Somali-Canadian mothers who have been impacted by gun violence in the North Etobicoke community of Toronto. Funding will allow the organization to establish itself as a women-centric organization and increase its capacity in: outreach operations; establishing policies and procedures related to governance; undertaking community needs assessment and asset mapping processes; developing strategic and sustainability plans; and, implementing a collaboration plan with local stakeholders and service providers.

The additional funding will be directed at enhancing the organisation`s sustainability plan and providing support to the design of its fundraising strategy.

This 12-month project will raise awareness with men and boys, alongside women and girls, towards action in eliminating gender-based violence. In partnership with women’s organizations, the CFL and Edmonton Junior Football, the organization will create meaningful participatory experiences at the week-long 2018 Grey Cup festival held in Edmonton, Alberta that draw attention to gender based violence, trafficking, sexual exploitation and their association with sporting events. These include a Breakfast with The Guys initiative, in which youth and sport role models are engaged in a discussion around domestic violence and their roles in addressing gendered violence; as well as train the trainer activities aimed at junior football players, allowing them to support the continuation of training to additional junior players throughout the year. ACWS will also partner with the Action Coalition on Human Trafficking Alberta to develop tools to assist those working in the hospitality industry to better understand and recognize potential trafficking and sexual exploitation; as well as work with the Edmonton Police Services to establish a baseline on the rates of violence against women associated with sporting events. An evaluation will measure the success of project activities to establish a framework to inform future work linking gender-based violence and sporting events.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to develop, implement, and evaluate a cross-sector, multiagency, multi-disciplinary community response to commercial sex trafficking of vulnerable children and youth to improve the quality and consistency of care provided to young victims and their families.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to test the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre's regional Community Support Network, a service model that incorporates a coordinated response to sexualized violence involving formal collaboration between organizations and service providers that work with marginalized survivors of violence.

This 1-month project will increase the representation of Indigenous women from a broad range of communities across Canada at the Indigenous Women’s Leadership Summit in November 2018. The summit will host entrepreneurs, business leaders, educators, politicians and community leaders as they gather new insights and resources for Indigenous women to play a more integrated role in the economy.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to increase access to transition houses for Indigenous women and children by testing a service model, “Reducing Barriers for Indigenous Women and their Children,” aimed at developing culturally informed practices in transition houses in British Columbia.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to test the Community Safety Circle, which brings together service providers to create survivor-led, customized safety and support plans, as a promising practice to provide greater safety to women living in rural, remote and northern communities throughout Canada who do not have access to an emergency shelter.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to pilot and evaluate the effects of establishing a legal navigator service to provide Indigenous women survivors of violence in Labrador with a culturally sensitive, trauma-informed and wrap-around approach.

This 35-month project will influence workplace culture to increase women’s participation and advancement in skilled trades and apprenticeships affected by recruitment, workplace policies, practices, and behaviours in Ontario, Alberta, and British Columbia. Main activities include partnership development, needs assessment which includes research on promising practices, the identification and development of a strategy, piloting and evaluating a ‘code of practice’ for employers, and dissemination of knowledge.

The supplemental funding will be used to mitigate the impact that the COVID-19 restrictions have had on the project. Additional activities include, but are not limited to the following: accelerating the pilot phase for the Code of Practice to an online delivery, and in a shorter timeframe than originally scoped; and, increasing the workload performed by the contracted part-time leads in Ontario and Western Region to full-time capacity for Q4 of this fiscal year 2020-2021.

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to test and evaluate a comprehensive low-barrier, peer-support, survivor-centric and trauma-informed approach for criminalized cis and trans women survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) in the Metro Vancouver region of BC, in order to address barriers to accessing support services.