Grants and Contributions

The program provides financing for incentives offered to consumers who buy or lease an eligible ZEV.

The program provides financing for incentives offered to consumers who buy or lease an eligible ZEV.

The program provides financing for incentives offered to consumers who buy or lease an eligible ZEV.

The program provides financing for incentives offered to consumers who buy or lease an eligible ZEV.

The program provides financing for incentives offered to consumers who buy or lease an eligible ZEV.

The program provides financing for incentives offered to consumers who buy or lease an eligible ZEV.

The program provides financing for incentives offered to consumers who buy or lease an eligible ZEV.

Through this 24-month project, the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) will develop and put in place a promising practice in the form of a strategy to increase the ability of educators to provide effective consent education to boys and Autistic youth, which will strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the needs of educators, Autistic youth, and boys, taking an approach that considers various intersecting identities. To do so, the project will implement two sets of the same activities, with one focusing on Autistic youth and the other on boys. This includes scans and reviews of consent literature and educational resources, the development of consent education working groups, conducting online consultations of Canadian educators to determine consent education needs and effective implementation practices, and conducting focus groups with youth to understand their consent education needs and best practices for implementation. SIECCAN will then create and distribute summary reports of consultation and focus group findings, develop backgrounder educator guides focused on improving youth's consent knowledge, attitudes, and skills, as well as develop interactive e-learning consent modules and digital content resources on consent for educators to use with/for youth. The organization will subsequently conduct usability sessions to determine needed revisions to the digital content resources. SIECCAN will disseminate and facilitate the usage of the two sets of consent materials for educators by releasing and promoting the e-learning consent modules and the digital content resources on consent online, and sharing the backgrounder educator guides on the organization’s website, with their educator listserv, and with project partners. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice through a final report and will additionally work with SIECCAN to evaluate the change in educator knowledge and skills and ability to deliver consent education to Autistic youth and to boys. The external evaluator will also work with project partners to conduct two usability sessions, one with Autistic youth and one with youth (including boys) to determine the effectiveness of the two final digital content resources on consent. SIECCAN will disseminate all educator consent materials at national conferences/workshops to share information and facilitate implementation of the promising practice so that others may replicate it or expand upon it.

With supplemental funding, SIECCAN will create two lesson plans that will be developed directly from their existing backgrounder educator guide for boys, in response to educators’ ongoing need for practical, ready-to-use tools to teach core consent skills. These lessons will translate the guide’s evidence-informed concepts (1) asking for consent and (2) accepting “no” as an answer, into two interactive, age appropriate classroom activities for grades 6-8 that support boys in practicing respectful, healthy communication. With this investment, SIECCAN can equip educators across Canada with high-quality resources that strengthen consent literacy, promote safer relationships, and contribute to the prevention of gender-based violence.

Through this 24-month project, Métis Central Western Region 2 Council Incorporated will develop and put in place the Heartbeat Trauma Release Method Therapy (HTR) with Indigenous girls, two spirit and trans youth experiencing gender-based violence to strengthen the GBV sector. The organization will work with their partners in the community and address the need to provide supports and services to Indigenous youth in Northern Saskatchewan who are at risk of perpetuating generational cycles of trauma and who struggle in their communities experiencing bullying, physical, mental, emotional abuse, and sexual exploitation.

To do so, the project will include hiring and training of staff on the Heartbeat Trauma Release Method Therapy, recruitment of Indigenous participants, adapting the HTR method, offering one-on one counselling and group therapy through healing camps, collection of feedback and recommendations from participants and the external evaluator, the creation of a manual and hosting a gathering for all participants. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice throughout the lifecycle of the project.

Métis Central Western Region 2 Council Incorporated will share the findings with the GBV Knowledge Centre and host a large gathering and invite all participants in all four cohorts to share their experiences while also sharing information on the promising practices so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 24-month project, FOXY will develop, implement, and evaluate promising intervention practices that will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations of gender-based violence in the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut. Specifically, the project will design and develop a culturally safe, Northern-focused, gender-based violence prevention program based on evidence, best-practices and trauma-informed pedagogy. Youth, Northern-based researchers, clinicians, community members, and Elders will participate in all aspects of the development of the intervention. Specifically, the project will focus on young Northern and Indigenous young women (including trans-women) participants and gender-diverse youth.