Grants and Contributions

Through this 14-month project, TransCare+ will develop community-informed initiatives to overcome key issues facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities, with a focus on Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+ communities, people of colour, disabled folks, people living in a northern, remote, or rural area in Kingston and southern/western Ontario, Thunder Bay and northwestern Ontario, Sudbury and northeastern Ontario, and rural eastern Ontario. This will be achieved by 1) establishing project governance, 2) conducting a comprehensive environmental and resource scan, 3) developing an interactive e-learning platform, 4) engaging rurally located queer and gender diverse people in care navigation, 5) conducting data collection, monitoring, and evaluation of tools, and 6) engaging community in ongoing education and knowledge-sharing.

This project will engage with the following community collectives/organizations 1) Rural Ontario Community of Queer Youth (ROCQY), 2) Rainbow Collective of Thunder-Bay (RCTB), 3) TG Innerselves (TGI), and 4) Rural, POC, and Queer (RB&Q) to be part of the steering committee for this project along with representation from TransCare+.

By the end of this project, TransCare+ will have supported a community-informed project to address key issues facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities and advance equality for 2SLGBTQ+ people, with a focus on Indigenous, 2SLGBTQ+ communities, people of colour, disabled folks, people living in a northern, remote, or rural area.

Through this 15-month project, The KLUB Community Centre will develop community-informed initiatives to overcome key issues facing 2SLGBTQI+ communities. This will be achieved by providing educational workshops to community leaders, service providers and front-line staff (medical, educational and social fields). The themes of the workshops will be informed through engagement with the 2SLGBTQI+ community to identify barriers and inform educational content.

By the end of this project, The KLUB Community Centre will have supported a community-informed project to address key issues facing 2SLGBTQI+ communities and advance equality for 2SLGBTQI+ people.

Through this 38-month project, Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people, with a focus on individuals impacted by GBV in the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Yukon. This will be achieved by developing and implementing administrative, human resource (HR), occupational health and safety policies, and exploring and developing an enhanced governance structure.

By the end of the project, Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV by developing clear and concise job descriptions, an HR and financial policy that will allow it to continue to provide health and healing services to a northern indigenous population that suffer from the generational trauma of residential schools and other government actions. These documents will allow the organization to recruit and retain indigenous employees. Through this project, an occupational health and safety policy will be prepared, as required by the Worker’s Safety and Compensation Commission (WSCC), for its urban wellness camp that will allow the camp to continue to operate in a safe manner. Finally, the project will allow Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation to map out its current and future governance structure, incorporating traditional values and beliefs.

The Commercial Women’s Sport Initiative aims to improve economic security and prosperity for women through women’s professional sport by: shifting mindsets on the economic value of women’s professional sport; increasing motivation to invest in this space; and increasing capacity to embed intersectional gender equity in the development of women’s professional sport.

To accomplish these objectives, Canadian Women & Sport is working with Canadian Tire Corporation, Boston Consulting Group, Research and Consulting Firm, our Advisory Group, and a network of collaborators to deliver a two-year advocacy initiative. The project design reflects the following key activities:

A. Development of a national network of champions who are directly impacted by the issue, key influencers, and decision-makers in the target audiences.

B. Phase 2 Primary Research. Work with a leading national Research and Consulting firm to collect primary unique Canadian based research data that will articulate the unique business and social value proposition for women’s professional sport and related best practices in gender equity. This research will be based on the data gap analysis found in Phase 2. It will have GBA+ lens implemented throughout the process. Outputs of the Phase 2 Primary research will include a whitepaper (or equivalent) and Toolkit with best practices on building equitable and economically successful professional sport for women.
 
C. Delivery of a communications campaign to engage the national network in the research and the associated calls to action via digital communications collateral.

D. Outreach to strategically significant entities and decision-makers to generate targeted engagement and to support the application of the ideas and best practices in their institutional context. Quarterly release of new insights, with a focus on knowledge translation that generates engagement.

E. Ongoing measurement and evaluation with quarterly analysis to identify learnings to integrate. (Ongoing for the duration of the project.)

Through this 38-month project, Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence against Indigenous women and girls. This will be achieved by implementing a wholistic approach, with violence prevention as a consideration, in reviewing their current strategic plan, developing a strategic plan for 2023-2028, updating their constitution and bylaws, developing and implementing a board onboarding protocol, creating a capacity development and succession plan, and developing policies and procedures that align with new worker’s compensation legislation.

By the end of the project, Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society will have completed an assessment of their organizational gaps and created the necessary structure to ensure its long-term sustainability. This strengthened capacity will ultimately support Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women and girls, with a focus on Northern Indigenous women and girls.

Through this 26-month project, the University of Alberta will develop and put in place a decolonial, intersectional, arts-based, and strength-based program that supports Indigenous populations impacted by GBV, using a community-based methodology that is rooted in wâhkôhtowin (kinship) and miyopimatisowin (good health and wellness) to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the lack of supports available for Indigenous women and 2S/LGBTQIA+ experiencing GBV by prioritizing Indigenous cultural perspectives, traditions, language, and protocols. To do so, the project will include a series of Indigenous-created and Indigenous-led, arts-based workshops on self-determination for Indigenous women and 2S/LGBTQIA+ with women who are either currently or were recently incarcerated, engage Indigenous men and boys to address and prevent GBV in a holistic way using the knowledge collectively produced, and revitalize grandmother cultural resources, knowledge, and teachings. Art creations, online digital stories, best practices for strength-based workshop development and facilitation will be shared with Indigenous communities and the GBV sector broadly so that others may adapt the program to create their own community resources. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of this promising practice.

In this 14-month project, the Government of Yukon will work on the expansion of Sexualized Assault Response Team (SART) services outside Whitehorse to rural and remote communities in the Yukon.

The project will first include engagement with First Nations, community service providers and victims of sexualized violence and conducting a service inventory, leading to a proposed implementation and service model for each community. Finally, the project will seek to inform new and enhanced existing services to victims of sexualized assault across the territory that are more victim-centered, trauma-informed, culturally safe, and coordinated.

Through this 17-month project, PEERS Alliance will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps facing 2SLGBTQ+ communities. This will be achieved by developing and delivering workshops for and to Service Providers, 2SLGBTQ2+ youth and other community members. With the support of a social worker, 2SLGBTQ+ community members will have access to support, helping to improve their resiliency and allowing them to learn to overcome barriers.

At the end of the project, PEERS Alliance will have identified best practices for trauma-informed and resilience focused 2SLGBTQ+ programming.

Through this 39-month project, the Bonnyville Canadian Native Friendship Centre will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus in Bonnyville and surrounding Northern communities. This will be achieved by introducing culturally relevant ways of gathering feedback via internal and external engagement possibilities and by delivering information through sharing circles and ceremonies with community members, Elders, and Knowledge Keepers. The organization will determine its HR requirements, build evidence for policy change, gather knowledge for its future program needs, in addition to increasing collaboration with different Indigenous communities to end violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.

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

Through this 14-month project, Gay and Grey Montréal will address the need for a coordinated peer support system for the anglophone 2SLGBTQIA+ community living in Quebec, with an objective to disseminate tools, support, knowledge on care and rights; to navigate and access informed and inclusive social and health services; and to create safer and inclusive spaces for the diversity found within the 2SLGBTQIA+. This will be achieved by establishing: a peer support consortium of gay positive agencies targeting or welcoming 2SLGBTQIA+ anglophone clients, a research and map of existing 2SLGBTQIA+ Anglo organizations, a promotion of projects through best partnerships for diversity services to anglophone population, and strategic steps to ensure broad-based inclusion.

By the end of the project, the organization will have proposed an effective model of peer support system, which integrates existing structures and services appropriated to the anglophone 2SLGBTQIA+ community living in Quebec.