Grants and Contributions

Through this 31-month project, The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) will develop and put in place the Arts-Based Engagement Ethnography (ABEE) to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the disproportionate rate of GBV among newcomer LGBTQIA2S+ youth, considering the perspectives of the youth themselves. TIES will engage local newcomer LGBTQIA2S+ youth in Calgary by identifying and connecting with several community-based organizations and groups.The project will investigate the relationships and communication between newcomer LGBTQIA2S+ youth and their families, peers, and friends, and develop an arts-based tool to support youth with intersecting identities in navigating toward stronger, more affirming relationships. The project will involve newcomer 2SLGBTQAI+ youth to visually display their experiences which will be presented at an exhibition at the end of the project. TIES will research, develop, and create tools to implement this promising practice safely in Calgary, AB. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. TIES will produce a final report document and publish two peer-reviewed scholarly articles that they will share with other organizations and WAGE’s GBV Learning Centre to disseminate their findings to be replicated or expanded upon in the future.

Through this 31-month project, Partners for Youth will develop and put in place an Indigenous youth-led healthy relationship program to strengthen the GBV sector in New Brunswick. It will address teen healthy relationships from an Indigenous perspective by engaging Indigenous youth as leaders, facilitators and participants in the project’s development and implementation. The project’s youth leadership team will develop and implement workshops, activities and community action plans with the support of the organization’s staff, Elders and community partners. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. Partners for Youth will prepare an information document for WAGE’s GBV Learning Centre to share the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 29-month project, Immigrant Migrant Women Association of Halifax (IMWAH) will develop and put in place an emergent promising practice to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address equality of access to information, services, and supports for im∕migrant women to improve their status in Canada's economic, social, and political life and prevent abuse and GBV. The project will foster a collaborative multi-stakeholder approach among service providers in the GBV sector and women's cultural organizations; strengthen an intersectional service and prevention approach that is responsive to im/migrant women’s experience of GBV. It will also work with im∕migrant women and girls to improve their sense of belonging and prevent instances of abuse and GBV in their lives, increasing their knowledge of and access to services available to them to prevent abuse and family violence. To do so, the project will include the development of the emergent promising practice, development of resources and implementation of a peer support group and deliver information sessions to key stakeholders.

An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of this project and the emergent promising practice. IMWAH will share this Promising Practice Report with the GBV Knowledge Centre, the Nova Scotia Domestic Violence Resource Centre, as well as through knowledge dissemination activities, such as conferences and symposiums, so that other organizations may replicate it or expand upon it

Through this 8-month project, Projet10/ Project10 will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing LGBTQ2 communities. This will be achieved by evaluating the relevance and inclusivity of life skills, resources and empowering LGBTQ2 Youth by innovating life skills development.

Through this 32-month project the Pas Family Resource Centre will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence against indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQIA+ people, in the community of The Pas and surrounding area. This will be achieved by using gender synchronized and trauma informed approaches within Indigenous communities to gather and collaborate in safe spaces. These engagements will research collective needs and reveal evidence to address barriers, collaborate on advocacy issues and build dialogue with governments that include learning how to consult on legislations, policies, and programs. All work done on this project will be developed and implemented through a succession plan to ensure long term sustainability.

This project will engage with First Nations Police, Aurora House, Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ survivors of violence and the families of those who experienced GBV, The Pas Pride Committee and Iskwewi Sokatiswin Ending Violence coalition.
By the end of the project, The Pas Family Resource Centre will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people, in the community of The Pas and surrounding area.

Through this 32-month project, Regroupement Féministe du Nouveau-Brunswick (RFNB) Inc. will amplify the practice of cultivating a culture of consent: towards a systematic change in the area of sexual harassment in schools in order to strengthen the gender-based violence sector (GBV). The organization will focus on bringing about systematic changes in policies and practices of schools, will offer care providers with the means of preventing and detecting sexual violence and will implement a culture of consent in the establishments and communities in questions. In order to do so, the project will create and facilitate an advisory committee with organizations, young people, including 2SLGBTQI+ youth, racialized youth and young boys as well as the participating institutions, and will facilitate workshops on consent in the participating schools.

The RFNB will produce a toolkit that will include brochures, videos, posters, a podcast and educational sheets for informing others on the promising practice to enable them to reproduce and amplify it.

Through this 32-month project, Aboriginal Women’s Organizing Network Society (AWON) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people with a focus on those in the sex trade and Indigenous mothers in child welfare matters in Vancouver, BC. This will be achieved by conducting a literature and legal review; consulting, gathering, and strategizing with Indigenous mothers and those wanting to exit from the sex trade, and with Indigenous and women’s organizations; building network(s) and partnership(s); developing a funding strategy for organizational stability; developing policies and guides on employee/volunteer development; and sharing resources.

By the end of the project, AWON will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people with a focus on Indigenous women and girls in the sex trade and Indigenous mothers in child welfare matters.

This 8-month project will enable Les 3 sex to develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps faced by LGBTQ2 communities. The measures that will be taken to achieve this will consist of creating an advisory committee with community partners, producing and producing video animation capsules representing the issues surrounding immigrants, Indigenous and/or disabled youth in 2SLGBTQ+ communities, and developing various recommendations and resources to raise awareness of the systemic discrimination faced by these youths.

By the end of the project, the organization will have strengthened its capacity to overcome issues faced by 2SLGBTQI+ communities, particularly immigrants, Indigenous and/or disabled youth, and to reduce discrimination against people who are at the intersection of multiple identities.

Through this eight-month project, Gender Affirming Care Nova Scotia CIC (GACNS) will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be achieved by addressing legal barriers to transitioning in Nova Scotia and providing queer youth with policy and governance education. This project will focus on the Nova Scotia Vital Statistics Act and Regulations; reducing wait times and costs associated with legal transitions; and creating mechanisms to address governmental, non-governmental, and private refusal to make documents, applications, and other means of providing personal information align with the Nova Scotian and Canadian human rights acts.

It will also seek to create, in partnership with community experts, a comprehensive education program for 2SLGBTQIA+ youth regarding policy and governance, providing them the tools to follow in our path towards inclusive policy and governance. GACNS will achieve this objective through internal policy consultations, policy drafting, workshopping, policy outreach, educational content and platform development, and continued consulting with public entities.

Through this 32-month project, The Manitoba Association of Friendship Centres Inc. will increase their ability to prevent and address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. This will be achieved by conducting outreach and awareness-raising campaigns in eleven communities throughout the province of Manitoba, where Manitoba’s Friendship Centres are located, by developing and delivering culturally appropriate training to staff and volunteers to enhance their understanding of gender-based violence, by developing and offering a public gathering where speakers, staff, and Centre delegates can learn from one another including survivors of gender-based violence, by establishing a network of educators and experts in their field that can provide support and services to Manitoba’s Friendship Centres, and by developing and implementing a comprehensive policy and procedural manual that will establish ongoing support for Indigenous women, girls, and two-spirit people.

By the end of the project, MAFC will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.