Grants and Contributions

WAGE and Government of Yukon Women’s Directorate joint funding initiative will continue to provide three Indigenous women’s organizations with the opportunity to integrate capacity building components into their existing transfer payment agreements with the Government of Yukon Women’s Directorate. The organizations receiving this additional joint strategic investment, Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society, Whitehorse Aboriginal Women’s Circle, and Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Council, will be able to enhance their capacity to address systemic issues impacting women within an Indigenous, regional, and intersectional context. This project would also address the impacts of COVID-19.

This 36-month project with Indus Community Services will develop a toolkit to increase awareness about the unique challenges and risks of human trafficking for foreign-born individuals with precarious immigration status in Ontario.

This will be achieved through education and prevention, which will increase awareness about the unique challenges and risks of human trafficking for foreign-born individuals using a toolkit and outreach, which will broaden the scope to reach these at-risk individuals and/or survivors. It will inform them of the settlement resources and supportive services through collaboration whereby a collaborative service model will integrate trauma-informed interventions from a settlement lens with anti-human trafficking partners.

At the end of the project, it will have developed, implemented, and supported existing prevention and intervention promising practices that will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking.

The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

This 24-month project with Multi-Lingual Orientation Service Association for Immigrant Communities will develop and implement promising prevention and intervention practices to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk population and survivors of human trafficking with specific focus on immigrant and refugee youth and immigrant and refugee parents.

This will be achieved through establishing a needs assessment by collaborating with local community service organizations, law enforcement and community focus groups who work or have lived experiences in human trafficking. From the needs assessment, a trauma informed approach will be developed and delivered through education and outreach sessions, focusing on risk, rights and resources to empower at-risk populations. Materials will be created to enhance the knowledge and capacity among community service providers. The needs assessment will also guide the development of a best practices case management system where survivors will be able to access support.

At the end of the project, the organization will have engaged with multiple community sectors, identified needs and gaps, created anti-human trafficking prevention tools and materials in response, delivered educational sessions and developed a case management system.

The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

This 36-month project will provide immediate financial relief to support growing COVID-19 related costs and ensure additional protection for volunteers and survivors during moves out of abusive households. Specific activities will include securing a national supply chain to ensure personal protective equipment reaches all chapters more efficiently and at lower cost. To avoid staff burnout in Greater Toronto and Nova Scotia, immediate hiring of part-time movers and drivers is needed to meet a notable increase in demand for frontline service. The project will prevent the closing of chapters by providing medium-term cash flow stabilization in the current fiscal year. The project will also support the redevelopment of Shelter Movers' volunteer training, recruitment and retention strategy. Volunteers comprise 99% of the organization's labour force and are an essential means of ensuring Shelter Movers can continue to support survivors fleeing violence.

This 36-month project with Native Women’s Association of Canada will develop, implement and test an intensive healing and empowering program intervention for Indigenous women and gender diverse people who identify as LGBTQ2+ and who are survivors of or at risk of sexual exploitation through human trafficking. The project will increase knowledge about identifying and addressing past and ongoing traumas, current risk factors of being trafficked, and barriers to self-sufficiency.
This will be achieved by engaging survivors, Indigenous Elders and Knowledge Holders with experience in traditional healing and trauma to participate in a Living Experience Advisory Circle, developing and implementing a trauma healing program based on therapy and traditional healing, and identifying and addressing current risks factors for sexual exploitation through human trafficking.

This 12-month project will help mitigate the impact experienced by women and girls caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by focusing on all 8 of Yukon’s municipalities and associated mining communities. Correlation between increased rates of gender-based violence and mining activity are well documented and known to often put a strain on the communal resources. An assessment of the community’s response capacity to gender specific social and health services will lead to developing an index scoring system. Consequentially, recommendations will be created and derived from the scoring and then put forth to the Yukon Environmental and Socioeconomic Assessment Board (YESAB) for all new mining operations. Engaging with existing partnerships to promote the project and provide feedback will ensure front line community organizational participation and collaboration.

This 24-month project will equip financial literacy educators with the training and tools they need to support women facing or fleeing domestic violence in a pandemic context. The project will encourage systemic change by increasing awareness of how Trauma and Violence-Informed Approaches (TVIA) can be applied to financial literacy education and by developing a TVIA toolkit of resources for educators. Families Canada will engage the participation of stakeholders such as family support centres, partner organizations, and women living on low incomes to map out a TVIA in the financial sphere, develop a GBA+ analysis and carry out an external evaluation.

This 36-month project aims to increase advocacy for the fight against Gender-based and Female genital Mutilation is included in COVID-19 response plans with health authorities and racialized community leaders in Ontario, Quebec, Alberta, British Columbia and Manitoba.

The COVID-19 Pandemic has made living in a violent household more challenging for young black and racialized girls. This project will engage and establish working partnerships with new commers, racialized and immigrant girls, and community organizations working in the field of violence against women and girls, community leaders stakeholders and potential allies, to identify key issues, challenges and gaps, that these girls are facing during the pandemic.

The project will then develop evidence-based and culturally appropriate promising strategies to address violence again girls by organizing local community protection plans for victims of gender-based violence and female genital mutilation. In addition this project will create a national framework on the issue, increase collaboration with gender-based organizations and community service providers to prevent or respond to this issue.

This 36-month project with the Ontario Network of Victim Service Providers (ONVSP) will develop and roll out a Human Trafficking educational online application called "That's Sus” (“That’s Suspicious” or “That’s Suspect”), to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations and survivors of human trafficking across the Province of Ontario.

This will be achieved by 1) developing the "That's Sus!" online web-based application; 2) consulting and interviewing survivors of human trafficking to create trauma-informed application content; and 3) rolling out the application nationally with informed research and support from the ONVSP partner agencies across the Province to empower the end user in identifying signs of human trafficking, gender-based violence and knowing where to seek appropriate resources.

At the end of the project, the organization will have 1) developed and delivered the “That’s Sus!” online web-based application across Ontario; and 2) enhanced availability of trauma-informed bilingual material about human trafficking, self-confidence and positive relationships to victim service providers in Ontario.

The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

This 12-month project with Regina Treaty / Status Indian Services Inc. will develop and implement a holistic program delivery approach that addresses the diverse needs of clients to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk Indigenous women and children.

This will be achieved by recruiting a clinical mental health counsellor, holding family support group sessions, delivering group counseling sessions, and working closely with partners in services such as addictions, mental health, shelter supports, training and employment, wellness programs, and other types of family supports.

At the end of the project, the organization will have the capacity to provide traditional cultural healing strategies and trauma-informed services to victims and survivors of Human Trafficking.

The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.