Grants and Contributions

Through this 30-month project, the Health Equity Alliance of Nova Scotia (HEAL NS) will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. ACNS will address increasing its own 2SLGBTQI+ capacity generally, but especially queer women’s communities not traditionally served, and transgender communities for whom they recently began developing targeted programming. It will address intersectionality regarding cultural competency and safety for ACNS to be better able to serve Indigenous, racialized, and new immigrant, and disabled individuals and community members.

The project will include a provincial 2SLGBTQIA+ Health and Healthcare Access Needs Survey, designed to clarify existing patterns and challenges to inform future programs and initiatives, the development of capacity and resources for a future 2SLGBTQIA+ Cultural Competency Training Program for healthcare workers, the strengthening of IT technical expertise to better utilize web and social resources, and the building of a robust fund development capacity to support future work.

Through this 30-month project, Canadian Pakistani Support Group Association (CPSG) will scale the Leading Change curriculum to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address intergenerational domestic violence, specifically within immigrant communities in Edmonton and Calgary. To do so, the project activities include the revision of the existing materials with partners to inform and develop a culturally relevant and responsive version of the Leading Change curriculum for immigrant youth, engaging and empowering immigrant youth to identify their potential to create and lead change through discussions, workshops, training, an ongoing Community of Practice, and meetings with various stakeholders and team members. Prevention strategies on domestic violence will be developed and implemented in Edmonton and Calgary. CPSG will collaborate with the Alberta Council of Women’s Shelters (ACWS) and other community stakeholders on various project activities. Furthermore, an external evaluator will develop an evaluation framework and complete a final project evaluation when the project ends. CPSGA will also produce a Final Report that they will share with WAGE’s GBV Learning Centre, and other organizations through a Media Release and Impact Report to disseminate their findings on the scaling of this promising practice so that others may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30-month project, BIPOC USHR PEI Inc. will conduct research that will help improve Gender-Based Violence (GBV) services for immigrant/migrant women and other racialized women and gender-diverse peoples. It will address their experiences on GBV, the barriers experienced by the community, and their suggestions and advice on how to improve services, supports, and prevention interventions. To do so, the project will include consulting with community members to inform the project and collecting qualitative data with immigrant/migrant women and other racialized women and gender-diverse peoples who have experienced GBV. BIPOC USHR PEI Inc. will create a report, infographics, and a social media campaign to share information on the research findings.

This federal–provincial/territorial agreement is to support eligible organizations providing existing crisis hotlines responding to gender-based violence (GBV) that are experiencing a rise in demand for service provision due to the COVID-19 pandemic by agreeing on the term of payments for federal funding intended for these eligible organizations.

Through this 30-month project, Vancouver Pride Society (VPS) will build its capacity to support and uplift QTBIPOC and 2SLGBTQAI+ communities. It will address staff representation and inclusion of marginalized and under-served community members through collaborative roundtables, town halls, knowledge sharing, and feedback collection via surveys. The project will include improving VPS’ financial management capacity, strategic planning, fundraising skills, human resources supports, training for volunteers and staff, and overall organizational dismantling and unlearning of systemic oppression. This project will allow VPS to ensure that all 2SLGBTQIA+ community members feel safety, belonging and see themselves represented at Pride.

Through this 30-month project, Qmunity Camp NWT will build its capacity and networks with other 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. It will address colonial barriers of the gender binary and heteropatriarchy in on the land spaces that lack the safety and inclusion of gender and/or sexually diverse individuals. The project will include a training resource and brochure for NGO's and Indigenous Governments, engagement with the 2SIQTIP community, a strategic plan, action planning, evaluation planning, governance and policy creation. In addition to these critical pieces of the internal structure, Qmunity Camp NWT will build relationships with other NGO's and Indigenous Governments. This project will allow Qmunity Camp NWT to ensure that 2SIQTIP community members feel safe and included in on the land spaces.

Through this 24-month project, John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights (JHC) will conduct research that will improve GBV services for at-risk groups by applying an intersectional lens to community-based best practices in prevention and intervention as well as engage community organizations in direct implementation strategies on the Federal Action Plan. The project will address the intensified crisis of Gender Based Violence seen in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic that has increased vulnerability for women and gender diverse populations; has exacerbated issues of racism, ableism, low-income and security that intersect with GBV; has applied increasing pressure to non-profit organizations; and that exposed the harassment of women and 2STQLGBIA+ communities.

To do so, the project will conduct focus groups and interviews, including 1000 human rights-based assessments from community and organizations. JHC will document presentations of best practices and action strategies aligned with the Federal Action Plan and strengthen collaboration among partners working to address GBV. JHC will translate data collected on best practices into tools and resources to support capacity-building among service providers and disseminate those tools and resources through outreach and workshops in order to share information on the research findings.

Through this 30-month project, the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW) Canada will conduct research that will improve GBV services for Indigenous, Black, racialized, non-status, and temporary status women, who work in precarious, informal, non-standard labour sectors. Through community-based research with GBV service providers and women who access their services in the Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba, the project will determine the benefits and limitations of using an anti-trafficking framework to understand and address GBV experienced by marginalized, racialized women who work in under-examined informal, precarious, non-standard labour sectors. GAATW Canada will use its national voice to share the research findings among key stakeholders to effect change at legislative, policy, and practice levels and will share information with Women and Gender Equality Canada’s GBV Knowledge Centre.

Supplemental funding will enhance the project’s knowledge mobilization activities including creating online resources, disseminating findings at events, and hosting follow-up community conversations.

Through this 30-month project, John Howard Society of York Region will develop and put in place the Ending the Cycle program to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the needs of female-identifying and non-binary youth who are at-risk or victims of familial violence. To do so, the project will support participants to change behaviour, identify barriers, create and/or learn about boundaries, and examine belief systems about domestic violence. It will also, educate male-identifying individuals on how to prevent GBV and advocate for gender equality. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. John Howard Society of York Region will circulate final evaluation results through presentations at community agency tables within the York Region so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 24-month project, the Native Counselling Services of Alberta (NCSA) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and LGBTQ2 people, with a focus on Indigenous women and girls. This will be achieved by developing an Intimate Partner Violence Best Practices manual for staff and community partners to address issues to combat intimate partner violence. Working groups will be developed to engage in the design and development of curriculum and learning resources that address the needs and gaps identified, including input and feedback from participants with lived personal experiences to address the impacts of colonialism, racism, and intimate partner violence. Discussions will be facilitated to share the findings with staff and developing strategies for incorporating the knowledge into practice.

By the end of the project, NCSA will have strengthened their internal capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and LGBTQ2 people by partnering with multisectoral organizations for collaborative and advocacy skills and incorporating knowledge into practice through the creation of a training manual and to support ongoing learning and development of its staff.