Grants and Contributions

Through this 43-month project, Luke’s Place Support & Resource Centre for Women & Children will develop and put in place a limited scope legal service and wraparound support to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the inaccessibility of supports for women who are fleeing an abusive partner and entering the family law system. To do so, the project will provide limited scope legal services pertaining to family law and intimate partner violence, and provide individualized wrap-around supports through a support worker.

Through this 40-month project, TransEstrie will conduct research that will help improve healthcare and health services for at-risk groups in the area of gender-based violence. The project will help shed light on access to gender-affirming care in Quebec and on medical violence experienced by trans and non-binary people during the medical transition process.

Through this 43-month project, She Matters will conduct research that will help improve GBV services for at-risk groups. This project will increase access to justice and enhance reporting practices for at-risk groups, specifically Indigenous women, in rural and remote communities in Yukon and northern Ontario. This project will address key barriers in accessing forensic evidence collection for survivors of sexual violence in the identified regions. To do so, the project will expand upon existing research conducted by She Matters on forensic evidence accessibility within the defined regions by engaging community stakeholders and members, conducting a literature review with emphasis on the barriers in reporting acts of sexual assault in rural and remote communities, conducting surveys, focus groups, and interviews with survivors and community stakeholders to identify systemic gaps which provide barriers in reporting acts of sexual violence.

Through this 31-month project, Restigouche CBDC will conduct research that will help improve GBV services for at-risk groups, specifically Mi’gmaq women, Two Spirit, non-binary and gender-diverse people in the extended region of Restigouche. It will address barriers to accessing services related to GBV in a region with intersecting vulnerabilities and needs, and with limitations in providing culturally specific and trauma-informed care. To do so, the project will include the creation of an Advisory Committee, the implementation of an action and knowledge mobilization plan, and an internal project evaluation process. Furthermore, the project will entail a comprehensive research phase which will include a review of relevant literature to identify gaps, engagement with community members with lived experience through adapted research methods, and an analysis of results to identify barriers, best practices, and recommendations. Restigouche CBDC will create products and materials that summarize project results intended for key partners and stakeholders, a knowledge mobilization campaign for the general public, and presentations to share information on research findings.

This pilot project will test the provision of free menstrual products to community organizations serving diverse low-income populations in various locations across Canada and scale up existing education and awareness activities to increase awareness of period poverty and reduce the stigma of menstruation.

Specifically, this pilot project (Phase 1) will allow Food Banks Canada to engage with private sector partners to procure menstrual products and work with its transportation partners to efficiently distribute the products through its national network of food banks and partnerships with community-based organizations including shelters, friendship centres and local food banks to various pilot sites across the country. In addition, the organization will test the provision of free reusable menstrual products in one or more communities as part of this pilot project. Food Banks Canada will also work with a consortium of menstrual equity organizations in Canada to scale up existing education and awareness activities to increase awareness of period poverty and reduce the stigma of menstruation in Canada. The organization will launch a transparent, impartial and fair process to select menstrual equity organizations for this component of the pilot. Food Banks Canada will monitor progress, collect data, and report on project activities to develop recommendations for the advancement of menstrual equity in Canada. A GBA+ perspective will be applied throughout the implementation of the pilot to ensure inclusivity of the process and a better access to the products and programming.

The supplemental funding (Phase 2) will allow Food Banks Canada to expand the distribution of disposable and reusable menstrual products to additional sites in Northern Communities, working with organization(s) working within these communities.

Through this 7-month project, Out Jasper will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps to address the rural experiences of the LGBTQ2 communities in the West Yellowhead Region of Alberta. This will be achieved in partnership with Options HIV West Yellowhead by conducting focus groups in Jasper, Hinton, Edson and Whitecourt in Alberta to identify unique issues facing each town that will form a LGBTQ2 advisory committee to explore and develop practical solutions and guide our project, decreasing barriers for the LGBTQ2 community of each rural town through education, building community through creating alliance groups and implementing LGBTQ2 focused events and improving access to services for all through intersectional analysis, and increasing local visibility and awareness.

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.

Through this 43-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.

Through this 43-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).

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.