Grants and Contributions

Through this 30-month project, Living in Community Society will scale its community development model, strengthening the gender-based violence (GBV) sector by addressing how sex workers across British Columbia experience GBV. It will scale deep to impact the root causes of violence, scale up to impact laws and policy, and scale out to reach greater numbers of sex workers and sex-worker serving organizations, prioritizing BIPOC, disabled, im/migrant, and rural and remote women and non-binary sex workers. It will address the gender-based violence that sex workers experience and their needs for safe supports and an end to stigma. To do so, the project will create and strengthen a provincial convening model of key stakeholders, impact provincial laws and policy to address the roots of violence, and track and measure the project’s impacts. Living in Community Society will publish reports and updates via its website and social media regularly to share the promising practice with others so they may replicate it or expand upon it and share information with Women and Gender Equality Canada GBV Knowledge Centre.

Through this 30-month project, Woman Abuse Council of Toronto will develop and put in place a model of coordinated support for survivors of economic abuse to strengthen the GBV sector, based on the Domestic and Economic Abuse Project (DEAP) model, already successfully piloted in the UK. It will address a gap in the capacity and financial services of one urban and one rural community to help them prevent and respond to economic abuse. To do so, the project will include establishing partnerships in these two community pilot sites, developing and adapting a model based on the DEAP model to address the needs of the diverse populations in Ontario, and implementing the program in these pilot sites. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. Woman Abuse Council of Toronto will document the knowledge gained through the project and organize webinars and other outreach events with relevant communities, and advocate for system and policy change to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30-month project, Sher Vancouver LGBTQ Friends Society will build stronger capacity of queer community organizations and networks to advance queer equality. It will address how the organization develops financial sustainability. The project will include developing and putting in place HR processes and systems to hire grants committee members, creating a grants committee that will research, learn and develop resources on how to find and write funding proposals and how to develop other financial sustainability options and funding partnerships with the private sector, creating two strategic plans for the committee, gathering feedback, evaluating and updating the resources, and developing an online resource library to train new committee members and the Sher Vancouver team.

Through this 30-month project, Interval House of Hamilton will scale the MentorAction program to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address gaps in gender-based violence prevention training in the male-dominated skilled trades sector across Ontario. To do so, the project will deliver GBV prevention training within workplaces and establish training networks throughout skills and trades unions in Ontario. Interval House of Hamilton will author blogs and articles to be published in participating companies’ and unions’ newsletters 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 Association of Alberta Sexual Assault Services (AASAS) will develop and put in place an online third-party system for reporting sexual assault and abuse in Alberta to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address gaps in access to justice for sexual assault survivors, particularly those who are most vulnerable, reluctant to report to the police, and face significant barriers when seeking justice. Additionally, prevalence data will be collected to identify patterns and trends and inform future practice. To do so, the project will engage key provincial stakeholders, including survivors, police and court professionals, and representatives from sexual assault centres and agencies serving marginalized and at-risk individuals. Together, they will collaboratively guide the development, testing, implementation, and promotion of the 24/7 online third party reporting program, which will be designed with a focus on preserving survivor agency, choice, and control. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. AASAS will create and host a series of webinars to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30-month project, All Nations Hope Network Inc. will scale its response services for Indigenous women at-risk of GBV. The project is an Indigenous-led program that will strengthen the GBV sector and will address the disproportionate rate of GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and Two Spirit people. To do so, the project will include expanding an existing promising practice into Saskatchewan; using culturally appropriate supports to improve community connections and education. This will include train-the-trainer educational programming, which will provide participants with the knowledge and tools to educate those within their communities who may be at risk of GBV. Applying Indigenous pedagogy, and using theory and tools of community change, the project will equip Indigenous communities to effectively address issues like GBV.

All Nations Hope Network Inc. will conduct an evaluation of the promising practice as implemented in Saskatchewan and share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 31-month project, White Ribbon will scale their social marketing campaign promising practice model with diverse partners to strengthen the GBV sector. It will scale up across Canada through engaging community partners and youth from rural and remote, Indigenous, racialized, 2SLGBTQI+, Black, Francophone and official language-minority groups in three provinces (NL, PEI, AB) and all territories (NU, NWT, YK), and with national-level organizations serving Francophone and diverse populations. It will address attitudes, behaviours and social norms that perpetuate men and boys’ use of gender-based violence and discrimination. To do so, White Ribbon will work in multiple Canadian locations, and with new equity-seeking partners and youth, to support at-risk and underserved populations by engaging men and young men from those communities in the prevention of GBV and in the promotion of healthy masculinities and allyship. Additionally, the project will establish a 25-member bilingual National Youth Council to co-create two highly intersectional, social marketing campaigns. Their role will be to collaborate on all aspects of the campaigns, including sharing their experiences of inequality and GBV to help solidify the targeted approaches and key messages of the campaigns, ensuring they will be well received in their respective communities. Finally, a third-party evaluation report will summarize the project’s effectiveness, and document their best practices to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

The first additional funds will be used to respond to the increasing demand of requests from educators to help address radicalization and misogyny following White Ribbon’s 2024-2025 campaign, My Friend, Max Hate. To do so, they will develop lessons plans for educators who teach Grades 6-8 and 9-12. They will pilot-test the lesson plans with a educators across Canada and engage a third-party evaluator to assess their effectiveness and to determine if further changes are needed.

Through this 31-month project the Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia will develop, implement and evaluate a Restorative Approach in Multiple Proceedings (RAMP) model that will strengthen the Gender Based Violence Sector.

Partnering with the Restorative Research, Innovation and Education Lab at Dalhousie University, and community and justice sector collaborators they will build a process that empowers and supports families impacted by Gender Based Violence to identify their needs related to safety and wellbeing and develop plans to meet these needs. RAMP will facilitate system and service stakeholders’ collaboration in support of these plans by building their capacity to work in more responsive, integrated and holistic ways. Specifically, the project will facilitate support teams and work collaboratively with partner agencies, identify and shape family-led restorative pathways, develop education and training to support system change, gather learnings through a formative evaluation and develop a knowledge dissemination strategy.

Through this 30-month project, the Fédération des femmes acadiennes de la Nouvelle-Écosse (FFANE) will amplify the promising practice of culturally adapting and validating translated tools and resources as well as their circulation through a lens of community engagement to strengthen the gender-based violence sector. It will help amplify French resources adapted to the realities of the Acadian and Francophone population of Nova Scotia (NS). It will focus on the need to address a language barrier which undermines French-speaking population of NS and adapt the content to regional realities. In order to do so, the project will include the creation of a committee of stakeholders from gender-based violence sector (GBV) and from Acadian and Francophone community sectors and implementation of a cultural adaptation and validation process for the identified resources. FFANE will conduct the mapping for awareness-raising and dissemination of these resources to inform others of this promising practice in order to allow them to reproduce and amplify it.

Through this 31-month project, Women’s Health in Women’s Hands will develop and put in place a prevention and care cascade framework to support racialized immigrant, refugee and non-status women, trans and non-binary people impacted by, or at risk of experiencing gender-based violence (GBV). It will address the different risks and sociocultural factors experienced by racialized women and address the need for culturally appropriate and safe services. To do so, the project will support the delivery of a cascade of GBV prevention and care services that are tailored to the needs of racialized women. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. Women’s Health in Women’s Hands will organize a community knowledge exchange event to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.