Grants and Contributions

Through this 30-month project, Alliance Jeunesse Famille de l'Alberta Society will scale a peer education model to strengthen the GBV sector. It will scale to Francophone Immigrant women who have experienced, are experiencing, or are at risk of experiencing domestic violence. It will increase awareness about domestic violence, cultural safety and family violence. To do so, the project will partner with Sagesse and Multicultural Health Brokers Cooperative to create an Advisory Committee and will hold community meetings, cultural safety workshops, and peer support sessions. Alliance Jeunesse Famille de l'Alberta Society will have a large community forum to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30-month project, the Queer & Trans Health Collective (QTHC) will build stronger capacity of 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and networks to advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. It will address data gaps in the understanding of substance use within the 2SLGBTQI+ community nationally, particularly seeking to address the under-representation of women, trans, and gender diverse individuals within existing data. A Community Advisory team, which will include different 2SLGBTQI+ communities to make the QTHC more diverse, will be established to develop a national survey to gather information on harm reduction and substance use among 2SLGBTQI+ members. QTHC will also hold a series of regional focus groups to understand the community needs at a deeper level. At the end of the project, collected and analyzed data will allow for the development of an advocacy strategy called National Action Plan to raise awareness and drive change nationally. This plan will correspondingly increase the impact and effectiveness of the QTHC’s programs and services in addition to strengthening the capacity of the 2SLGBTQI+ sector.

Through this 30-month project, the Muslim Advisory Council of Canada, in partnership with the Center for Community Based Research, will conduct research on collaborative ways to overcome intersectional barriers and obstacles faced by Muslim women in the Halton region in disclosing GBV and seeking support from formal services and informal networks as family, friends, and community leaders. Centering voices from the Muslim communities, service providers, and people with lived experiences, the project will assess their needs through focus groups, a community survey, a community forum, and a literature review. Promising and culturally informed interventions will be evaluated through cases study, a series of focus groups and interviews on targeted cases. Then, knowledge products on effective interventions, such as a technical research report, an equity-oriented gender-based screening framework, and training tools and toolkits, will be developed and shared to build the community’s capacity. At the end of the project, a knowledge mobilization summit on the research findings will be held with stakeholders and the community.

This 30-month project will develop the organizational capacities of the Rendez-vous de la fierté Acadie Love in order to better serve and represent the 2SLGBTQI+ French-speaking minority and rural communities on the Acadian Peninsula in the province of New Brunswick. It will focus on developing and improving the organization's internal capabilities, including its digital skills, and creating and integrating an equity, diversity and inclusion policy into its practices and policies.

Through this 30-month project, Punjabi Community Health Services Calgary Society will scale a promising practice of Gender-Based Violence counseling program to spread awareness and strengthen the GBV sector. The organization will scale the program to South-Asian girls aged between 12 and 18. It will address intersectional factors such as religion, gender, racism, culture, and oppression that affects South-Asian youth experiencing GBV at home and/or in their communities. To do so, the project will develop a curriculum for individual and group GBV counseling programs on how to build resiliency, seek support systems, form boundaries, and cope with trauma while learning about empathy. The organization will reach out to South-Asian participants from various settings such as schools, cultural and religious centers. Punjabi Community Health Services Calgary Society will create a written final report and information presentation to share their findings on the promising practice with schools, religious temples, and youth-focused cultural centers so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30-month project, Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF) will develop and put in place a promising practice of building sector capacity to prevent and respond to GBV through feminist strategic litigation, which will strengthen the GBV sector overall by moving towards broader changes to legislation, policies, and practices. It will utilize the expertise and address the needs of women, trans, and non-binary people who are experiencing GBV, particularly those who are Black, Indigenous, racialized, low-income, disabled, and/or newcomers, as well as the people serving and advocating for them at national, provincial/territorial, and local levels across Canada, with representation of official language minority communities. To do so, the project will include an environmental scan of GBV sector organizations’ experiences within the legal system and legal cases, and gather baseline data from participating organizations regarding their level of experience with and exposure to the legal system and feminist strategic litigation through survey and consultations. The data gathered will inform the nature and scope of workshops, programming materials, and resources LEAF will develop and deliver related to feminist strategic litigation, with a focus on national, provincial/territorial, and local level interventions. LEAF will also identify potential legal cases for partnership with one or more participating organizations at federal, provincial, and/or territorial levels, in order to increase their exposure to feminist strategic litigation. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice as relates to participating organizations’ experience with and exposure to the legal system and feminist strategic litigation as well as capacity to become involved in litigation in future. Women’s Legal Education and Action Fund (LEAF), will assess and build out a final project logic model and theory of change for feminist strategic litigation, create an online repository of project findings, resources, and tools, and facilitate the building of a network of GBV organizations interested in feminist strategic litigation through shared participation in workshops, the development of a listserv/email for ongoing communications, and the facilitation of connections with other key stakeholders, in order to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30-month project, ARC Foundation will build stronger capacity to be prepared for the scaling effects of national growth – including internal systems, strategic plans and focus, people strategy, planning and tools, and expanding collaboration with education and 2SLGBTQI+ community organizations and network - to help advance 2SLGBTQI+ equality. It will address key challenges and needs that the growth in demand and geographic reach engender, such as considering and responding to the impact on our team, our stakeholders and our systems, processes, and tools, so we can continue successfully collaborating with the education community. The project will include four key activities: complete three-five year strategic planning for national growth; identify, review and develop workforce and HR planning strategies; evaluate and optimize IT technology and tools for growth; and address and plan for risk mitigation for national scaling.

Through this 30-month project, Black Buildup will develop and put in place the Coaching Boys Into Men (CBIM) bystander intervention promising practice to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the behaviours and attitudes that lead to GBV among young men and women, with a focus on Francophile Black men and boys. To do so, the project will include delivering workshops and interventions to youth in sport, and engaging the community through parents, coaches, sport administrators, and spectators to be active partners. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. Black Buildup will collect baseline data, develop a toolkit, and mobilize knowledge to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Supplemental funding will allow Black Buildup to expand the CBIM to reach more sports clubs, and engage CBIM youth through alumni engagement, community engagement forums, as well as through a CBIM Tournament. Supplemental funds will also be used to enhance the project’s knowledge mobilization, including two national webinars, as well as enhance the longitudinal evaluation to better quantify impact on youth. Additionally, supplemental funds will be used to conduct an intensive 3-day Train-the-Trainer certification program.

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.