Grants and Contributions

By the end of the project, CAAVD will have developed administrative and practical tools and a repository of lessons learned, including consultations with women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ persons from the community, and key CAAVD partners, to remedy issues related to support for women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ members of the Val-d’Or Indigenous community.

LFCS will also update their HR manual with learnings from the assessments, develop partnerships to prevent and address GBV, analyze and implement new policies to help prevent and address GBV in the community, and create an advocacy plan for victims and survivors of GBV.

An external evaluator will measure and assess implementation successes and the impact of this promising practice, and the Steering Committee will summarize lessons learned around adaptation and implementation as well as program impacts on system change, client housing stability, and violence reduction to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate or expand upon it.

The project will also collect data, conduct evaluations, and produce a toolkit to share best practices and lessons learned on educating youth about toxic masculinity and gender-based violence.

CPSGA will also produce a Final Report that they will share with WAGE’s GBV Learning Centre, and other organizations through a Media Release and Impact Report to disseminate their findings on the scaling of this promising practice so that others may replicate it or expand upon it.

TIES will produce a final report document and publish two peer-reviewed scholarly articles that they will share with other organizations and WAGE’s GBV Learning Centre to disseminate their findings to be replicated or expanded upon in the future.

To do so, the project will research existing resources; verify current needs via community engagement; design and develop best practices curriculum to address identified barriers; recruit project cohorts of target population-led start-ups; deliver cohort education programs; evaluate programs on an ongoing basis; showcase the progress by hosting a public cohort graduation; report on the impact of the project; and share the curriculum and learnings with the broader network of sexual assault centres in Ontario and other organizations who are looking for pathways to economic prosperity work with the target population.

The scaling will also deepen the learning so volunteers will have a better understanding of how to integrate trauma and gender awareness into the work they do.