Grants and Contributions

Enhancement of Official Languages Program - Promotion of Linguistic Duality

Community Support, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program - Multi Inter-Action - Events

Community Support, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program - Multi Inter-Action - Events

Community Support, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program - Multi Inter-Action - Events

Community Support, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program - Multi Inter-Action - Projects

This 16-month project with The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver will produce and test a gender responsive training program for front line case workers working with vulnerable women going through challenging transitions following victimization or criminalization. This project will articulate a practice-oriented conceptual framework to help front-line workers recognize the effects of stigma, understand how stigma is perceived and internalized, and identify the strategies vulnerable women use to manage and cope with stigma. The overall goal is to increase women's self-control, self-efficacy, resiliency, autonomy, and agency while providing more opportunities to take control of their lives by reducing the social exclusion and stigma they encounter. This educational tool will be trauma and stigma informed while appreciating the need to be gender-responsive and culturally appropriate.

This will be achieved by conducting background research and interviews with women, men and youth facing serious forms of social stigma and potential discrimination; development of a gender responsive training program and manual; testing and validation of the gender responsive training program and publication of the training program (both print and online version).

Through this 15-month project, the Mouvement contre le viol et l’inceste / Collectif de femmes de Montréal (MCVI) will help prevent and address human trafficking. To do so, the MCVI will enhance its interventions to accommodate the specific needs of migrant women who have crossed the Darién Gap (a region linking Panama and Colombia). The widespread violence and forms of trafficking associated with this journey make these women’s trauma more complex, requiring tailored interventions. In addition, these women are at an increased risk of trafficking (for sexual exploitation and/or labour) after they arrive in Canada.

To achieve the project’s goal, the MCVI will enhance its promising practice for identifying and supporting trafficking survivors to reflect the complexity of the trauma these women experience. This will be done by organizing support groups and one-on-one meetings with survivors to adapt its approach and tools for intervention.

Through this 29-month project, YWCA Canada will scale its ‘Violence Against Women Staff Support Network’ to strengthen the GBV sector. It will scale the network to include gender-based violence service workers and, will address workers wellness, capacity, connectiveness, and retention. To do so, the project will include a national, bilingual, free, online hub for GBV support workers to access training, resources, tools, and community and peer-support. YWCA Canada will develop and launch a knowledge mobilization strategy to strengthen sector capacity and, to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 40-month project, the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration (MRCSSI) will conduct research that will help improve GBV services for at-risk groups. It will address the necessity of exploring the unique risk factors, needs, and experiences of immigrant and refugee women survivors of gender-based and family violence who come from collectivist backgrounds. To do so, the project will include collaborating with project partners to establish project governance and tools, engaging with the community, conducting data collection, analyzing data, and producing a report on the findings and recommendations. MRCSSI will develop a webinar and training materials, prepare slides and info-graphs to be presented at conferences, and publish their findings on the MRCSSI website to share information on the research findings.

With the Supplemental funds and extension provided in early 2026, the Muslim Resource Centre for Social Support and Integration (MRCSSI) will 1) Develop and Integrate an Intersectional Survivor-Centred Engagement Framework into work of Cross-Sector Stakeholders and Diverse Muslim Communities; 2) strengthen awareness, capacity, and coordinated responses through strategic knowledge translation and outreach. Through this MRCSSI will further advance Gender Equality.

Through this 41-month project, Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women (OCTEVAW), Vivic Research and partners will conduct research that will help improve GBV services for at-risk groups. The project will aim to better understand non-legal approaches to support racialized, newcomer, refugee survivors of gender-based violence. To do so, the project will conduct a targeted literature review and environmental scan; host community engagement sessions including one on one interviews with community stakeholders and engage gender-based violence advocates in research project. OCTEVAW and its partners including Vivic Research will host knowledge dissemination activities to share information on the research findings.

With the Supplemental funds and extension provided in early 2026, the Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women will 1) Conduct Stakeholder Engagement & Strategic Communications – strengthen uptake of research findings among different stakeholders through targeted messaging and engagement; 2) Build Community-Based Prevention Frameworks & Plan for Sustainability – transition research findings into practical prevention frameworks and partnership models; 3) Conduct Knowledge Outputs & Multilingual Dissemination – ensure research outputs are accessible, culturally relevant, and are being incorporated to service provision. Through this they will further advance Gender Equality.