Grants and Contributions

This 19-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Working with community partners representing precarious status women, frontline workers and Indigenous women, York University will examine how different groups of status-insecure women envision and enact local, collaborative models of self-determination to enhance their economic and physical well-being. They will conduct policy consultation workshops on labour and immigration law and policy, as well as gender-based violence. Policy briefs will be developed and adapted for the general public, media, and governments; a strategy grounded in Indigenous practices will be devised to address violence against Indigenous women and girls; and the project’s policy strategies will be showcased in a one-day symposium. In addition, York University will create a digital archive of video interviews documenting precarious status women’s pandemic experiences and vision for a just recovery.

At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes. This project will bring together experts from York University with community organizations serving Indigenous and precarious status migrant women. Partner organizations, researchers and students will collaborate to build the digital archive through conducting interviews and participating in focus groups to examine how status insecurity affects migrant and Indigenous women in the context of the pandemic. The interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral team will also contribute to policy consultation workshops to support the development of visions and policy recommendations for a just response to COVID impacts.

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

This 27-month project will use a logic model for social change and evaluation to support Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survivors and their families through film and online media. Carrier Sekani Family Services Society will achieve this by creating 10 short films of women and girls who live in communities along the Highway of Tears who will tell their stories and share wisdom on themes such as healthy relationships, cultural practices and their life experiences addressing gender-based violence and discrimination. The films will be used to highlight specific Calls for Justice to challenge and reverse negative stereotypes towards Indigenous women and girls and their communities. For broader reach and impact, a social media campaign will strategically connect the content of each film to the corresponding Calls for Justice.

This project will engage GBV survivors, ensuring all aspects of the project activities are trauma-informed and survivor-led from production to screening. The impact of this logic model for social change and evaluation will also be assessed through a third-party evaluation, including its potential to be adapted and replicated.

By the end of the project, Carrier Sekani Family Services Society will have developed a promising practice and will have shared it with the wider GBV sector, to further strengthen supports to Indigenous population of GBV survivors and their families in Canada.

This 8-month project will provide safety and supports for women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA in Winnipeg. This will be achieved through increasing capacity to ensure the space is open 24/7. The space is low barrier and culturally safe and offers Elder supports, cultural programming, basic needs support, access to washrooms, and a safe place to rest for all women who are experiencing domestic and street violence.

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

The 12-month project, “Implementation of the Strategic Plan: Phase 2”, aims to strengthen the capacity of the Divers-Gens network in promoting LGBTQ2 equality. The project's objectives will be fulfilled by undertaking the following actions: Increasing the organization’s capacity to improve the scope, effectiveness, and efficiency of services, establishing and improving partnerships to strengthen the not-for-profit LGBTQ2 sector, supporting and improving long-term financial sustainability, and increasing awareness of the organization and its outreach strategies to improve its visibility and reputation.

By the end of the project, the organization will have increased its knowledge and ability to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and gender expression.

This 9-month project is Phase 2 of Project SO20063, “Building Bridges – Thunder Pride Expansion & Evolution.” It will strengthen the capacity and networks of Thunder Pride Association to advance LGBTQ2 equality. Thunder Pride will build on the work done in a previous project (managerial capacity, bylaw development, strategic plan) by developing tools and resources to support the bylaws and policies previously developed; aligning policies, procedures, and tools with the organization’s values around diversity, equity, and inclusion; building mechanisms for community engagement; and ensuring ongoing organizational strength through strong human resource management (board retention).

This 32-month project will help prevent gender-based violence at festivals and support women who are survivors of it. To achieve this, GRIP (the Groupe de recherche et d’intervention psychosociale) Montreal plans to create and offer training tailored to the needs of professionals involved in festivals. It will also establish a psychosocial support zone that can be a safer space and refuge for vulnerable, distressed, and intoxicated people who have witnessed or experienced violence at these events.

Staffed by trained responders who are aware of the issues involved, this space will provide appropriate support to a range of vulnerable groups. Among them are women and girls, including those who are racialized, who live in rural or remote regions, or who have disabilities; immigrant women; LGBTQ2+ people; and people who identify with more than one minority or marginalized group.

During events, the organization also plans to create and distribute prevention resources on sexual violence, consent, being an active witness, and getting around safely from a perspective related to substance use at festivals.

Through this 45-month project, Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada will increase its ability to prevent or address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. This will be achieved by addressing GBV against Inuit women, girls, and LGBTQQIA+ people in three targeted areas. These areas are strategic planning and evaluating results, human resources management, and driving change though an Inuit specific GBA+ advocacy strategy development to end violence against Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQQIA+ people in Canada.

Since signing of the Canada-Pauktuutit MOU in 2017, Pauktuutit has experienced an increase in demand for input and participation. This growth has led to substantial changes for Pauktuutit - positive changes that assert Inuit women’s role and rights in the government initiatives and policies. However, this growth has not occurred without challenges. This project will help Pauktuutit address these challenges and support their ability to create organizational stability by providing the mechanisms to create a strategic plan, with a short-term and medium-term strategy, to support their growth as well as the necessary tools for talent recruitment, onboarding, skills development and a retention strategy. Reviewing and adapting HR resources to include Inuit specific GBA+ framework for culturally appropriate resources that will support organizational stability and growth. Pauktuutit will also create an advocacy strategy to guide how the organization learns, including improving ability to provide programs that prevent violence, leadership, technology, project management, financial management, employee tools, mentorship.

The project activities will ensure equitable access to programs, supports, governance, forums for change and up-stream investments that will create opportunities for Inuit women. This project will produce gender and Inuit specific solutions and subsequently, the required mechanisms. Furthermore, this project will provide a better understanding of the current capacity and supports available to Inuit women across the country, in addition to advocating for a more equitable representation of Inuit women provincially, territorially, and nationally.

This 20-month project proposes to create and implement a multisectoral community of practice designed to address the deeper causes of gender-based violence. Montréal-Nord en santé will achieve this goal by examining socio-economic issues specifically affecting immigrant and racialized minority women and female adolescents victimized by intimate partner violence in Montréal-Nord. A literature review and needs assessment will be conducted with victims and neighbourhood organizations. The organization will publish a report containing recommendations that identify the issues uncovered and propose improved, culturally adapted services. Training modules on anti-oppression practices and intersectoral collaboration will be developed and delivered to institutional, community and private-sector partners represented on the Table de quartier de Montréal-Nord in an effort to enhance knowledge about intimate partner violence. Participants will have access to a digital platform offering resources and tools relevant to the training modules. The organization will rally key stakeholders to participate in a community of practice to discuss recommendations and actions for ensuring a range of services that reflect the cultural realities of immigrant and racialized minority women and female adolescents. The organization will develop an operationalization tool to support community of practice members in updating and monitoring internal policies and action plans in an effort to achieve lasting change.

By the end of the project, Montréal-Nord en santé will have surveyed, trained and educated neighbourhood organizations about the importance of providing culturally adapted services to immigrant and racialized minority women and female adolescent victims of intimate partner violence. The community of practice will have strengthened the capacity of players from different Montréal-Nord communities to act cohesively by developing an intersectoral response and appropriate actions.