Grants and Contributions

MCoH will also identify other organizations throughout Nova Scotia that offer GBV services to Indigenous women and girls, share their learnings with them and facilitate ongoing communications.

This 18-month project will provide peer support to 100 South Asian women in the Malton and Mississauga regions who are experiencing COVID-19 challenges and losses related to health and well-being, economic security, social and cultural connections, domestic violence, and community resource navigation. 10 Women Peer Ambassadors will be recruited and trained in the areas of peer support; leadership and civic engagement; mental health and well-being; financial literacy, entrepreneurship; digital literacy; gender-based discrimination, domestic violence; and community resource navigation. Leveraging the learnings from the trainings, inputs collected from project beneficiaries and knowledge exchanges with partner organizations, the Peer Ambassadors will develop a ‘Framework to Provide Peer Support to Women Experiencing Challenges Related to COVID-19’.

In addition, Inform’Elles will promote these new avenues by engaging the French-speaking community and sharing the lessons learned from the project through regional and national networking.

This will be achieved by conducting an organizational and community-based needs assessment, by leading research on capacity-building learning opportunities and emerging support trends, by sustaining collaboration with community partners, and by completing an internal evaluation to identify improvements and best practices for continued self-assessment and growth.

To do so, the project will 1) consult women, sector employers, and other relevant stakeholders to deepen understanding of the barriers; 2) tailor the Workplace Inclusion Toolkit informed by findings from consultations and an environmental scan of best practices in Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion; 3) engage 30 employers to adopt the Workplace Inclusion Charter with the support of Inclusion Coaches, who themselves are women with intersecting identities; 4) facilitate a Community of Practice to sustain learning by employers and support their efforts in change management; and 5) conduct ongoing program review and evaluation in preparation for a final best practices toolkit.

Through this 22-month project, Coaching Association of Canada will scale its social learning initiative, Alberta Women in Sport Leadership Impact Program’s (AWiSL) Community of Practice (CoP), in order to affect sport system change and advance women’s equality, leadership development and diversity, and knowledge transfer.

It will scale to a new learning cohort of up to 20 of the 206 community foundations that serve communities from coast to coast to coast.

Educational products and training will be developed such as digital conversation guides, learning resources, and workshops designed to combat anti-2SLGBTQI hate which will be mobilized through Egale’s free and accessible online Rainbow Action Hub.

This will be achieved by 1) engaging community and local service providers to identify barriers faced by 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; 2) assessing the needs of 2SLGBTQIA+ people, especially trans, non-binary, Indigenous, and racialized/marginalized groups; 3) developing and testing tools, resources and workshops to help 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals access services and navigate the healthcare, employment, and social systems, while addressing root causes of hate and prejudices; 4) establishing and piloting a support program led by social work students, to empower members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, particularly those from racialized and Indigenous backgrounds; 5) evaluating the results, impact, and lessons learned from the project; and 6) developing a sustainable plan to ensure the continuation of efforts to address root causes of hate, provide support, and increase access to services for 2SLGBTQIA+ communities.

The purpose of OVERSEE is to address the unique challenges of SAR in remote areas (such as indigenous communities in the Arctic and their immediate surrounding area) with UAS platforms. In order to do so, we must create SOP’s to facilitate UAS BVLOS usage for SAR, including SOP’s for Computer Vision (CV) techniques for SAR operations. To create the SOP’s, OVERSEE needs remote/isolated community SAR statistics from organizations who respond to SAR events. We seek the “where”, “when” and “what” details (i.e. lost hunter, capsized boat, spotted from CAF aircraft at 2000ft after 3 hours). This is added to a simulation engine along with new COTS UAS models for processing, outputting the most successful UAS SAR methods.