Grants and Contributions

Through this 36-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.

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 42-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.

This 36-month project aims to strengthen the Association des francophones du Nunavut’s (AFN) organizational capacities to continue to promote social and systemic changes in support of gender equality.

Through this 36-month project, Quadrangle NL Community Centre will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. It will identify and address various barriers and gaps to supports and services for the community, as well as improve the organization’s tracking and evaluation of its programs and services. The project will include the development of a Community Advisory Board, the integration of results-based management practices, the creation of data collection and sharing methods for sector advocacy, and improvements to the organization’s internal financial reporting.

Through this 24-month project, the Regroupement des maisons pour femmes victimes de violence conjugale (RMFVVC) will develop and implement a promising practice to provide workplaces the tools to better protect immigrant women employees who are victims of intimate partner violence and strengthen the gender-based violence sector.

Through this 36-month systemic change project, Grande Prairie Women’s Residence Association (Odyssey House) will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity or representation in leadership and decision-making roles through systemic change. Specifically, the project will address systemic barriers within the social services sector including breaking down silos and encouraging more effective and equitable sharing of resources in Northern Alberta by creating the Hope Hub Grande Prairie platform, a unified database to minimize revictimization, implementing tailored training programs and establishing a robust governance structure. The project will include a coordinated approach to empowering women to take leadership of their lived/living experiences and exercise autonomy over their service journey. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the systemic change project.

Additional funding will support adjustments/changes to the capabilities and the implementation of the collective database while also providing wages for a community project navigator who would support systemic change, further building collaboration and communication between agencies and stakeholders to ensure consistent access to collective database.

Through this 36-month project, Réseau Femmes du Sud-Ouest de l'Ontario will develop and implement an approach to educate and raise awareness among young girls who have witnessed parental domestic violence, in order to strengthen the GBV sector. This project will address gaps in the availability of prevention and intervention resources for high-risk youth, particularly local, French-language resources adapted to official language minority communities in southwestern Ontario. To achieve this, the project will include interactive workshop modules carefully developed with experts and implemented within participating francophone schools, for young girls aged 13 to 18, and with the participation of young boys as allies.

Through this 36-month project, Les 3 sex* will develop and implement a gender-based cyber violence prevention program for young boys to strengthen the gender-based violence sector. The project will address the lack of access to services that help counter online radicalization and disinformation leading to gender-based cyber violence against women and 2SLGBTQI+ people.

Through this 24-month project, Hamilton Trans Health Coalition Inc. (HTHC) will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. It will address: the barriers that exist for trans, gender-diverse, and non-binary people who have been denied the necessary educational and professional development opportunities due to intersectional systemic oppressions; the gaps in best practices by developing a model employment program that lowers barriers to entry; the barriers that exist for low-income individuals seeking gender affirming health care and; the need to make it easier for communities of any size to follow in HTHC footsteps to build much-needed local capacity by sharing these best practices widely. The project will include a) the review of job descriptions, classifications, pay grids, volunteer program and succession planning; b) the study of the feasibility of a social enterprise to fund continued systems navigation through fee-for-service skill-building engagements with non-healthcare employers; c) establish and support innovative partnerships and planning activities that could, after this project and using newly identified resources, sustainably address gender affirming health needs of low-income individuals excluded from private care; d) refine human resources policies and strengthen employee supports and internal career pathing practices; and e) develop & disseminate HTHC start-up guide.