Grants and Contributions

This 24-month project is focussed on building internal skills, and capacity to create and realize a strategy, culminating in a sustainable and ongoing public advocacy program focussed on: recognition (creating positive narratives through celebrating and amplifying 2SLGBTQI+ people and achievements); thought-leadership (fact-based research to surface key issues relating to identity and equity across a variety of sectors); and fostering community change networks (sharing timely, credible information and engaging disparate organizations to create alignment and urgency around key issues).This positions PTP as an information hub creating and distributing credible, fact-based information to “debunk” anti-2SLGBTQI+ myths and campaigns as well as filling in information gaps where there is no data. Released research will influence journalism and public discourse around 2SLGBTQI+ issues by giving organizations credible information and content tools. Wide involvement fosters fact-based understanding and a shared voice around key issues creating public weight for change. This could include a yearly Pink Paper “report card” identifying and creating accountability. Gaps include project management strategic support and a need to develop capacity, skill sets and tools around research and data analytics, stakeholder management, communications, sponsorship and fundraising, as well as tools and capacity related to content creation.

Through this 30-month project, Alter Acadie NB, New Brunswick’s Franco-queer organization, will strengthen the capacity and networks of 2SLGBTQIA+ organizations to advance 2SLGBTQIA+ equality. The project will address two key issues: strategic planning and collecting conclusive data and knowledge on the challenges and barriers faced by New Brunswick’s Francophone 2SLGBTQIA+ community. The project will include positioning the organization to make a greater contribution to the province’s progress on gender equality in priority areas through enhancing its capacity for advocacy and strengthening member engagement. It will also include improving Alter Acadie NB’s organizational management so it can be more active in supporting the sustainability of New Brunswick’s 2SLGBTQIA+ movement. This will be achieved by assessing, developing, and implementing a strategic plan, as well as by developing and implementing a data collection strategy.

Through this 30-month project, Burnaby Family Life will scale the MANifest Change/Young Men Leading Change Program to strengthen the GBV sector. It will scale to males who identify with one or more of the following communities Indigenous, LGBTQ2SIA+, low income, black or racialized, newcomer, immigrant, and/or persons with disabilities. It will address the gap in service opportunities for support, empowerment and the development of healthy male identities. To do so, the project will establish programming involving racialized/immigrant males in reducing violence against women in alignment with the MANifest Change model/framework, and engage males in ways that address survivors' safety, justice, and healing needs. Burnaby Family Life will create a toolkit and evaluation to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30-month project, PLEA Community Services Society of British Columbia will scale the delivery of its youth-focused, gender-based violence prevention workshops to strengthen the GBV sector. It will scale to reach high-risk youth across BC including Indigenous youth, 2SLGBTQI+ youth, youth in care/custody, homeless youth, youth in alternative and mainstream schools, youth in smaller and rural communities, and youth in sports. It will address a gap in understanding among youth about toxic forms of masculinity, and the harms these can cause, to discourage young men and boys from participating in or perpetrating gender-based violence. To do so, the project will form an Advisory Committee to guide and inform the project, develop tailored workshops for each of the identified populations, and deliver workshops to these populations throughout BC. The project will also collect data, conduct evaluations, and produce a toolkit to share best practices and lessons learned on educating youth about toxic masculinity and gender-based violence. PLEA Community Services Society of BC will share its evaluation results and the toolkit with its Advisory Committee members and its partners in gender-based violence prevention so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30-month project, Alliance Jeunesse Famille de l'Alberta Society will scale a peer education model to strengthen the GBV sector. It will scale to Francophone Immigrant women who have experienced, are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing domestic violence. It will increase awareness about domestic violence, cultural safety and family violence. To do so, the project will partner with Sagesse and Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative to create an Advisory Committee and will hold community meetings, cultural safety workshops, and peer support sessions. Alliance Jeunesse Famille de l'Alberta Society will have a large community forum to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30-month project, the Queer & Trans Health Collective (QTHC) will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. It will address data gaps in the understanding of substance use within the 2SLGBTQI+ community nationally, particularly seeking to address the under-representation of women, trans, and gender diverse individuals within existing data. A Community Advisory team, which will include different 2SLGBTQI+ communities to make the QTHC more diverse, will be established to develop a national survey to gather information on harm reduction and substance use among 2SLGBTQI+ members. QTHC will also hold a series of regional focus groups to understand the community needs at a deeper level. At the end of the project, collected and analyzed data will allow for the development of an advocacy strategy called National Action Plan to raise awareness and drive change nationally. This plan will correspondingly increase the impact and effectiveness of the QTHC’s programs and services in addition to strengthening the capacity of the 2SLGBTQI+ sector.

Through this 30-month project, the Muslim Advisory Council of Canada, in partnership with the Center for Community Based Research, will conduct research on collaborative ways to overcome intersectional barriers and obstacles faced by Muslim women in the Halton region in disclosing GBV and seeking support from formal services and informal networks as family, friends, and community leaders. Centering voices from the Muslim communities, service providers, and people with lived experiences, the project will assess their needs through focus groups, a community survey, a community forum, and a literature review. Promising and culturally informed interventions will be evaluated through cases study, a series of focus groups and interviews on targeted cases. Then, knowledge products on effective interventions, such as a technical research report, an equity-oriented gender-based screening framework, and training tools and toolkits, will be developed and shared to build the community’s capacity. At the end of the project, a knowledge mobilization summit on the research findings will be held with stakeholders and the community.

This 30-month project will develop the organizational capacities of the Rendez-vous de la fierté Acadie Love in order to better serve and represent the 2SLGBTQI+ French-speaking minority and rural communities on the Acadian Peninsula in the province of New Brunswick. It will focus on developing and improving the organization's internal capabilities, including its digital skills, and creating and integrating an equity, diversity and inclusion policy into its practices and policies.

Through this 30-month project, Punjabi Community Health Services Calgary Society will scale a promising practice of Gender-Based Violence counseling program to spread awareness and strengthen the GBV sector. The organization will scale the program to South-Asian girls aged between 12 and 18. It will address intersectional factors such as religion, gender, racism, culture, and oppression that affects South-Asian youth experiencing GBV at home and/or in their communities. To do so, the project will develop a curriculum for individual and group GBV counseling programs on how to build resiliency, seek support systems, form boundaries, and cope with trauma while learning about empathy. The organization will reach out to South-Asian participants from various settings such as schools, cultural and religious centers. Punjabi Community Health Services Calgary Society will create a written final report and information presentation to share their findings on the promising practice with schools, religious temples, and youth-focused cultural centers so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30-month project, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) will develop and put in place a promising practice of building sector capacity to prevent and respond to GBV through feminist strategic litigation, which will strengthen the GBV sector overall by moving towards broader changes to legislation, policies, and practices. It will utilize the expertise and address the needs of women, trans, and non-binary people who are experiencing GBV, particularly those who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, low-income, disabled, and/or newcomers, as well as the people serving and advocating for them at national, provincial/territorial, and local levels across Canada, with representation of official language minority communities. To do so, the project will include an environmental scan of GBV sector organizations’ experiences within the legal system and legal cases, and gather baseline data from participating organizations regarding their level of experience with and exposure to the legal system and feminist strategic litigation through survey and consultations. The data gathered will inform the nature and scope of workshops, programming materials, and resources LEAF will develop and deliver related to feminist strategic litigation, with a focus on national, provincial/territorial, and local level interventions. LEAF will also identify potential legal cases for partnership with one or more participating organizations at federal, provincial, and/or territorial levels, in order to increase their exposure to feminist strategic litigation. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice as relates to participating organizations’ experience with and exposure to the legal system and feminist strategic litigation as well as capacity to become involved in litigation in future. Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), will assess and build out a final project logic model and theory of change for feminist strategic litigation, create an online repository of project findings, resources, and tools, and facilitate the building of a network of GBV organizations interested in feminist strategic litigation through shared participation in workshops, the development of a listserv/email for ongoing communications, and the facilitation of connections with other key stakeholders, in order to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.