Grants and Contributions

Through this 24-month project, Mannawanis Native Friendship Centre Society will increase its capacity to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQIA+ community members. This will be achieved by collaborating with community partners, conducting research, and engaging with elders, families, and victims of gender-based violence. The organization will facilitate Indigenous circles to identify gaps, compile research, strategies and develop recommendations to advance best practices, create GBV focused tools and a manual, train staff and community partners and host an engagement session to share the results.

By the end of this project, Mannawanis Native Friendship Centre Society will have strengthened its capacity to prevent and address GBV against Métis women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals, with a focus on creating a manual that exemplifies best practices for empowering Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ communities.

Through this 30-month project, NDMS will conduct research that will help improve GBV services for at-risk groups. It will address the gap in GBV knowledge about disabled Inuit women and girls in Nunavut, as no literature currently exists. The project will also provide a space for participants to share their lived experience, something that has never been an order to this group, which will result in new ways of understanding GBV through an intersectional lens. To do
so, the project will include sharing circles with people with lived experience across all three Nunavut regions. NDMS in collaboration with community partners and an advisory group will draft a formal report to share information on the research endings. The report will be translated, offered in plain language and will be available to anyone interested.

Through this 31-month project, Equality Insights Lab will conduct research, in collaboration with Ottawa Muslim Community Services and Queen’s University, to improve gender-based violence (GBV) services for at-risk groups in Ottawa’s Muslim Community with a focus on immigrant, newcomer and refugee women. This mixed methods research will assess GBV risks, protective factors, and access to and utilization of GBV services and their intersection with Islamophobic attitudes and behaviors. To do so, the project will: develop a research protocol and identify community stakeholders; hold a series of workshops and discussions with the Muslim community to refine the research methods, and collect disaggregated data on GBV, including intimate partner violence and patterns of support-seeking. The data will be validated through open dialogue sessions with the community and a series of recommendations will be co-created to increase accessibility, cultural sensitivity, and utilization of services and to improve coordination and cross-sectoral collaboration with community stakeholders. Recommendations will also inform GBV prevention and bystander interventions. Dissemination activities will be conducted with the community and key stakeholders to share findings and recommendations. Results will also be published in a scientific journal.

Through this 31-month project, the National Association of Women and the Law (NAWL) will develop and put in place a promising practice for intersectional feminist legal reform: a collaborative GBV-responsive law reform model, which will strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the legal needs of divorced and divorcing victims and survivors of GBV, and work to specifically address the needs of Indigenous, Black and racialized women, immigrant, refugee and newcomer women, women with disabilities, members of the 2SLGBTQI+ community, and women in northern communities, which may not have been sufficiently addressed by the recent amendments to the Divorce Act. To do so, the project will include a preliminary needs assessment involving consultations with legal experts and stakeholders, a review of existing data and research on the current state of the family justice system’s intersections with GBV, consultations with legal experts, stakeholders, and relevant organizations, and conducting a law reform methodology case study(ies). NAWL will also develop a law reform backgrounder, which will be used to increase partners’, legal experts’ and stakeholders’ understanding of the law reform process and ability to advocate for women’s rights within the family justice system. Through consultations with stakeholders in 4 of the 5 WAGE regions and adopting an approach of collaborative GBV-responsive feminist law reform, NAWL will develop a law reform position paper and a plan to advocate for GBV-responsive family law related to the Divorce Act, which will include an awareness-raising campaign, as well as the creation of materials to raise awareness among lawyers and the general public. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. NAWL will be working collaboratively throughout the project with a number of GBV-sector organizations who will be consulted and provide feedback on key project processes and outputs. The law reform position paper and the external evaluation will be shared with partners, supporters, and/or decision-makers. NAWL will also develop, publish, and share recommendations for legislative amendments to the Divorce Act, in the form of a position paper, memorandum or brief, to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 30- month project, Elmwood Community Resource Centre and Area Association Inc. will scale the “Still I Rise” gender-based violence program (based on tree of life model) to strengthen the GBV sector. It will scale to better meet the needs of South Asian, Black and Arab women in Manitoba. It will address the root causes of GBV in a culturally sensitive way for Black, South Asian and Arab individuals who often are at high risk for GBV. To do so, the project will include working with Manitoba Association of Women’s Shelters (MAWS) to engage with at-risk and underserved populations and developing measurement tools and indicators grounded in culturally relevant practices. The organization will work to share the information from scaling this promising practice widely with partners and others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Through this 31-month project, VIDEA will scale the Shared Wisdom promising practice project to strengthen the Gender Based Violence (GBV) sector. This approach will be introduced to 8 Indigenous communities - Iqaluit, NU, Nunatsiavut, NL, Fort Vermilion, AB, Thorhild County, AB, Lytton, BC, Lil'Wat, BC, Whitehorse, YT, and Yellowknife, NWT. It will address the root causes of GBV against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQ+ people. This will be achieved through the identification of systemic barriers and the development of interventions strategies and tools to strengthen the GBV sector. This work will be done by youth leaders and their communities to better support Indigenous people to heal from, address and prevent GBV. This project will be developed in partnership with Indigenous youth and their communities.

To do so, the project will support Indigenous youth leaders to develop processes to engage their communities in culturally-relevant prevention, healing and wellness activities - especially for men, boys and 2SLGBTQ+ people - to identify systemic barriers and community-informed solutions to GBV.

Indigenous youth leaders will begin with developing and delivering an accessible, intersectional, culturally-relevant community-needs assessment and baseline surveys to better understand strengths and barriers related to GBV.

This will guide youth leaders as they develop and implement comprehensive, intergenerational community engagement strategies that include Land-based learning and healing, community events, creative spaces and Indigenous wellness and healing activities, especially for men and boys, and 2SLGBTQ+ community members.

VIDEA will support the youth-led development of innovative resources to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

The supplement funding will allow the project to add two new communities: Thorhild County, AB and Whitehorse, YT, and to expand programming in the third Northern community already included in the project, Yellowknife, NWT. This supplement will provide boys and men with a culturally relevant, land-based healing and leadership experience grounded in knowledge, identity, and intergenerational learning.

This 6-month project will allow the organization to conduct succession planning with a complementary human resources component. As phase 2 of project QC18440, these activities will strengthen organizational capacity. They will also ensure the long-term success of the organization and a more sustainable operational transition.

Through this 31-month project, The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) will develop and put in place the Arts-Based Engagement Ethnography (ABEE) to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the disproportionate rate of GBV among newcomer LGBTQIA2S+ youth, considering the perspectives of the youth themselves. TIES will engage local newcomer LGBTQIA2S+ youth in Calgary by identifying and connecting with several community-based organizations and groups.The project will investigate the relationships and communication between newcomer LGBTQIA2S+ youth and their families, peers, and friends, and develop an arts-based tool to support youth with intersecting identities in navigating toward stronger, more affirming relationships. The project will involve newcomer 2SLGBTQAI+ youth to visually display their experiences which will be presented at an exhibition at the end of the project. TIES will research, develop, and create tools to implement this promising practice safely in Calgary, AB. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. TIES will produce a final report document and publish two peer-reviewed scholarly articles that they will share with other organizations and WAGE’s GBV Learning Centre to disseminate their findings to be replicated or expanded upon in the future.

Develop digital adoption plan

Develop digital adoption plan