Grants and Contributions

This 29-month project will educate teachers, administrators, and community members on best practices to reduce gender based violence among high school students. The Flip the Scrip Sexual Assault Resistance Program will be disseminated, implemented using a trauma informed lens, and measured to contribute to reducing sexual assault of young women through evidence-based gender violence prevention.

North Shore Women’s Centre will achieve this by providing education on evidence-based gender violence prevention practices, tailoring and delivering Flip the Script Sexual Assault Resistance programming in community settings and in schools across British Columbia (BC), tracking and documenting project delivery and outcomes, exploring and supporting wider delivery of school-based gender violence prevention programming in BC, and sharing the outcomes of the project.

This project will engage school administration, parent groups, community organizations and gender-based violence survivors, ensuring that project activities are trauma-informed and survivor-led. The impact of this approach will be assessed through a third-party evaluation, including its potential to be adapted and replicated.

By the end of the project, North Shore Women’s Centre will have tested their promising practice and shared it with the wider gender-based violence sector to strengthen sexual assault prevention for youth and supports to survivors of sexual assault and their families, in Canada.

Through this 13-month project, Central Urban Metis Federation Inc. will build its organizational capacity in order to set goals, improve skills, and ensure the sustainability of the organization. This will be achieved through board assessment and training, strategic planning, operations planning, continuity and sustainability planning, a human resources review and succession planning, technology planning, and the development of a data collection and management plan. Undertaking these initiatives will create long-term strength and vision for the organization, thereby increasing its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.

This 34-month project will develop and implement the Girls Achieving Gender Equity (GAGE) Outreach program to address the root causes of Gender Based Violence on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) populations, by educating and empowering young women ages 12+ across 3 rural Nova Scotia communities. ElevateHer Mental Health Support Services Canada will build community capacity to respond to Gender Based Violence in a preventative and sustainable way and support Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survivors and their families in Truro, Shelburne, and Sydney. This will be achieved this by conducting community youth led consultation; developing comprehensive overview of services and resources in all 3 areas, conducting an evaluation to assess the activities/ programming effectiveness; integrating evaluation results to refine activities/programing; and disseminating results with community partners within the GBV sector as well as in other regional community organizations.

This project will engage with Elizabeth Fry Societies of Atlantic Canada, Department of Community Services: Wood Street Secure Centre for Youth and Shelburne County Youth Health & Support Association. GBV survivors will be engaged, ensuring that project activities are trauma-informed and survivor-led. The impact of this program will also be assessed through an external evaluation process, including an analysis of its potential to be adapted and replicated.

By the end of the project, ElevateHer Mental Health Support Services Canada will have developed a promising practice and have shared it with the wider GBV sector, to strengthen supports to BIPOC youth of GBV survivors and their families, in Canada.

This 10-month project is Phase 2 of the project SO20241 and will continue to strengthen the capacity of Hamilton Trans Health Coalition Inc. to advance LGBTQ2 equality. This will be achieved by 1) identifying new capacity building opportunities through a Peer Working Group and health care survey activities; 2) developing and implementing an evaluation of current and ongoing capacity building initiatives, measuring the impact of this work in the previous year and developing a process for ongoing program evaluation; and 3) developing training programs for peer leadership, advocacy, and capacity building; as well as 4) providing targeted advocacy and capacity building training workshops to coalition service providers.

At the end of the project, the organization will have increased knowledge and capacity to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression; and established and strengthened partnerships and collaborations to support the LGBTQ2 movement.

This 33-month project will implement a new regional network to advance the engagement of men and boys in addressing the root causes of gender-based violence. Next Gen Men will achieve this by establishing the network, convening, and building relationships among diverse and unconnected individuals and organizations from across sectors committed to advancing gender equity and preventing gender-based violence as well as through the dissemination of existing research and emergent recommendations on the engagement of men and boys from action-based and evidence-informed partners such as Shift: The Project to End Domestic Violence.

This project will invite government stakeholders, community-based organizations and individuals (including survivor-serving, Indigenous, and culturally specific), academic subject matter experts, and private-sector representatives from the Pacific, Prairies, and Ontario regions to partake in the network, ensuring that project activities are survivor and trauma informed. The demonstration of the positive intended impact of the network approach and potential to be replicated, scaled up, or developed further will be carefully documented through ongoing internal evaluation.

By the end of the project, Next Gen Men will have developed a promising practice that increased connections and collaboration and shared it with the wider GBV sector to advance the role of men and boys as key participants in gender equity and gender-based violence prevention in Canada.

The first additional funds will be used for the translation of project documents and resources in both official languages.

The second additional funds will be leveraged to achieve a future-proof pathways resources for the community beyond the conclusion of this funded project, and to share the story of the network and its participants to further inspire others to engage boys and men in gender justice.

In this 24-month project, Alberta and Women and Gender Equality Canada will co-invest in the development of strategies to engage men and boys to prevent domestic violence in the Province of Alberta. This will be achieved through scaling existing initiatives for funded organizations; facilitating community engagement; and identifying emerging opportunities.

By the end of this project, Alberta will have a prevention strategy developed that will advance the role of men and boys as key participants in gender equity and gender-based violence prevention in the Province of Alberta and Canada.
The project partners include the Government of Alberta’s Ministry of Culture and Status of Women and Ministry of Community and Social Services, as well as the non-profit organizations Sagesse, Next Gen Men and Men&. The project steward and fiscal agent, Sagesse Domestic Violence Prevention Society, will conduct a robust evaluation and final report to ensure that project objectives are achieved, which will include identifying what it looks like to engage men and boys in preventing domestic violence in the Province of Alberta.

This 36-month project aims to deploy the Foundation de l’ASEQ’s “Order an Angelo” accreditation protocol throughout the country in cities and main official language minority communities. The protocol will be implemented in bars and public spaces where alcohol is consumed. Places where there is a worrying prevalence of sexual violence, following the lifting of health restrictions related to the pandemic, will be particularly targeted. The protocol provides that a person fearing for their safety can order an Angelo from the establishment’s staff to call for help. Staff will be trained and equipped to be active witnesses who can intervene appropriately to prevent and respond to sexual violence. The project thus directly addresses the systemic barriers – such as myths, norms and attitudes surrounding sexual violence, consent, and alcohol and/or drug use – that facilitate the perpetration of sexual violence. By the end of the project, a vast network of safe bars committed to fighting sexual violence will be created across Canada.

The supplement funding of $175,000 will be used to expand and support the implementation of the protocol in the North.

This 36-month project will develop, test, implement and share a wraparound continuum-of-care model to address the need for culturally and linguistically relevant supports for underserved East Asian Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survivors and their families in Ontario. This target population includes newcomers/refugees, those living with disabilities, and those with limited income, who are past or present victims of gender-based violence perpetrated by family, work, systems, or human trafficking. Community Family Services of Ontario (CFSO) will achieve this by: conducting community/stakeholder consultations; developing and testing a robust wraparound model of support; conducting an evaluation to assess model effectiveness; integrating evaluation results to refine the model; and disseminating results within both the GBV sector as well as in ethnic media networks, all with the involvement and input of the GBV survivors/clients.
This project will engage Toronto Public Health, York Region Public Health, Victim Services Toronto, John Howard Society, and the Canadian Red Cross, as well as East Asian GBV survivors, ensuring that project activities are trauma-informed and survivor-led. The impact of this model will also be assessed through a external evaluation process, including its potential to be adapted and replicated, with findings to be integrated into programming for future GBV survivors and to be shared with the GBV sector to increase the body of knowledge.
By the end of the project, CFSO will have developed a promising practice and have shared it with the wider GBV sector, to strengthen supports to underserved East Asian GBV survivors and their families in Canada.

This 22-month project will reduce silos, foster systems change collaboration and build supports for 2SLGBTQI+ organizations and communities in rural areas that is substantive and sustainable. This will be achieved through convening rural 2SLGBTQ+ organizations to identify the systems-level barriers they experience in their work. The Enchanté Network will offer Systems change support for 2SLGBTQI+ organizations to deepen the set of tools and strategies that they use to address key systemic barriers related to racism, sexism, ableism, and other forms of systemic oppression. The Enchanté Network will conduct needs assessment research for rural 2SLGBTQI+ organizations and communities and hold consultations with rural member organizations to determine their structural policy priorities. Finally, the Enchanté Network will share resources and reports on the research and consultations and advocate with and for 2SLGBTQI+ rural organizations through public policy engagement and connecting key stakeholders with rural organizations to affect broader systemic change.

This 23-month project will examine culturally appropriate models to foster improved responsiveness, fairness, and inclusiveness to address gender-based violence in the Samson Cree Nation Community. An experiential transformational group process that explores traditional teachings around the root causes of gender-based violence will be developed and piloted. Recommendations for preventing and addressing violence against women will be made to community and policy makers.

At the end of the project, the organization will have developed a promising practice that increased networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supported the positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and advanced inclusive policies and practices. This project will engage community, sector experts, and women with lived experience from the Samson Cree Nation in each component of the project. The effectiveness of the transformational group process model will be carefully documented through ongoing evaluation.