Grants and Contributions

Through this 37-month project, Tungasuvvingat Inuit (TI) will improve its ability to serve Inuit women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people impacted by gender-based violence (GBV) by providing governance-based professional development to its Board of Directors and GBV focused training to its staff.

To achieve this, TI will standardize its GBV focused training for staff to increase its ability to support, educate and provide a consistent model of care to the Inuit community. In addition, the organization will provide training opportunities to its Board of Directors to improve its effectiveness and provide it with key skills to make informed decisions that will help TI maintain its positive impact on the urban Inuit and GBV community. Following the training modules evaluation, their content will be adjusted as needed to ensure their relevance.

Through this 13-month project, Egale Canada will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing 2SLGBTQI communities. This will be achieved by a virtual postsecondary symposium of 2SLGBTQI students, academics, intersectoral youth-led organizations and allies. This symposium will build tools informed by Egale Canada’s literature review of "gender critical" movements in Canada and refined by participants’ lived experiences. A working group will be formed to facilitate discussion at the symposium, then refine these tools and implement them in at least four universities representing four different regions across Canada.

The short-term impact will be increased knowledge, tools, and resources in the hands of 2SLGBTQI post-secondary communities, tangible strategies for active resistance to anti-gender hate, and preliminary insight into the implementation of these tools. Findings will be publicly available through Egale Canada’s networks with a focus on sustaining this action.

The long-term impact will be empowering 2SLGBTQI people to scale up and adapt these tools to other communities and building cross-sectoral relationships to counter the rise of anti-gender hate in Canada.

This 13-month project will develop community-informed solutions to address the main barriers and gaps facing LGBTQ2 communities. Measures that will be taken by the Comité FrancoQueer de l’Ouest to achieve this will involve establishing an advisory committee and hiring a community development and liaison officer to build organizational capacity as well as develop the project plan, a survey, and an informational document in collaboration with various key partners from the community. At the end of the project, the Comité FrancoQueer de l’Ouest will gather perspectives on 2SLGBTQIA+ issues and analyze the data. It will then develop an awareness campaign packaged in a reference document that will be shared with Francophone community organizations across the province as well as being available on the site. This will be followed by an assessment of the project.

Through this 36-month project, the Yukon Aboriginal Women’s Council (YAWC) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on 2SLGBTQQIA+ Indigenous people in the Yukon and northern British Columbia.

YAWC will undertake a series of operational improvements to ensure it can continue to provide sustainable, long-term programming and services to women, girls, and gender-diverse people in the Yukon and northern BC. This will include providing annual cultural support and resiliency training to address burn-out and potential re-traumatization of staff and volunteers. The organization will increase the efficiency of its systems and processes, to improve internal organization and human resources. YAWC will also develop a financial sustainability plan and a contract template toolkit.

By the end of the project, YAWC will have strengthened its capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on 2SLGBTQQIA+ Indigenous people in the Yukon and northern British Columbia.

Through this 13-month project, AGIR: Action LGBTQ+ avec les immigrantes et réfugiées will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing LGBTQ2 communities. This will be achieved by the elaboration of a 5 year strategic plan; the engagement in community based knowledge activities to adapt a care model to LGBTQ+ migrants and refugees and by the development of multilingual tools for LGBTQ+ migrants and health care and social service practitioners.

Through this 28-month project, Opokaa'sin Early Intervention Society will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals living in southern Alberta who identify as members of the Blackfoot Confederacy. This will be achieved by undertaking organizational learning to address key information gaps, and to create knowledge-based resources that aim to increase understanding of Indigenous gender and sexual diversity and prevent sexualized forms of violence against Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people; expanding organizational networks through the formation of an Opokaa’sin-centred relationality network that will work towards advancing a Blackfoot vision of gender justice; collaborating on initiatives to drive change, including the development of Blackfoot gender relationality agreements and wise practices for government policies and community projects; and developing advocacy strategies in service of honouring, promoting, and supporting Blackfoot gender diversity and inclusion.

This project will engage community members and various local Indigenous groups and agencies in guiding the creation of a framework for hearing and propelling Blackfoot perspectives on gender violence prevention and gender justice. The approaches taken will be Blackfoot-grounded and will incorporate conventional perspectives from knowledge keepers and Elders, along with the diverse lived experience knowledge held by Blackfoot women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ community members.

By the end of the project, Opokaa'sin Early Intervention Society will have strengthened its capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals living in southern Alberta.

Through this 37-month project, Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQI+ people, with a focus on Indigenous 2SLGBTQQIA+ People living in a northern, remote, or rural area in the Toronto, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation areas. This will be achieved by conducting 1) research (including Artists, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and Survivors for interviews and focus groups), 2) awareness campaigns (in collaboration with band councils, marketing team and Elder consultant), and 3) GBV training for ANDPVA team on trauma and the brain using a Medicine Wheel framework.

By the end of the project, ANDPVA will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people, with a focus on Indigenous 2SLGBTQQIA+ People living in a northern, remote, or rural area.

This 27-month project will develop and test a therapy model to address the lack of culturally and linguistically appropriate services for childhood sexual abuse survivors and their families within the Tamil diaspora in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). A.N.B.U. will achieve this by conducting a needs assessment, developing a culturally and linguistically sensitive model that builds on the existing Gatehouse model. This model will be tested and adapted with several cohorts, and finally, shared with the GBV sector through final in-person and virtual events.

This project will engage adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse, community partners within the Tamil diaspora, and partner with the Gatehouse, ensuring that project activities are trauma-informed and survivor-led. The model incorporates arts-based methods to engage participants and be part of the annual events showcasing their art work and healing journey. The impact of this therapeutic model will also be assessed through a third-party evaluation, including its potential to be adapted and replicated.

By the end of the project, A.N.B.U. will have developed and strengthened their promising practice and have shared it with the wider GBV sector, to strengthen supports to Tamil GBV survivors and their families, in Canada.

Through this 14-month project, Centre for Gender Advocacy will develop community informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing LGBTQ2 communities. This will be achieved by supporting initiatives to address and overcome issues related to 2SLGBTQI+ people engaged in the sex trade, increase the understanding of this demographic, create new tools and make services more inclusive.

This 24-month project will develop an enhanced community and workplace experience for the Signal for Help Responders learning journey and increase the reach of the initiative to better respond to survivors.

To do this, the organization will secure partnerships with new and established partners and secure an external evaluator to determine methodologies for tracking and evaluation. They will work collaboratively with partners and the evaluator to analyze the evaluation data, share promising practices, and adapt and optimize the learning material's content.

They will develop tailored bystander intervention tools in partnership with workplaces and communities to help bystanders better respond to survivors, and train volunteers to coach them to launch peer violence prevention projects.

10-15 gender diverse artists, content creators and gender justice advocates will share knowledge and promising practices to strengthen culture change efforts and end the normalization of
gendered violence. CWF will also undertake knowledge exchange activities with national reach to transform cultures of stigma to cultures of support for survivors.

Finally, CWF will share lessons from the scale up of the project by distributing the evaluation learnings across national and international partners to contribute to the culture change.