Grants and Contributions

The project will increase capacity at the Sanare Centre in Southeastern Alberta in order to deliver child-focused, trauma informed, culturally responsive services for children, youth and their families. The project will include the development of a diversity, equity and inclusion advocate, in addition to developing an engagement and collaboration strategy.

Over the next five years, the TOBA Centre for Children and Youth will develop and deliver services that are evidence-based, child focus, trauma informed and culturally responsive. Project will include the development and piloting of services to rural and northern areas of Manitoba; ongoing service delivery; and, supporting the development and implementation of multidisciplinary team training for child abuse response.

Over the next five years, the project will focus on the continued provision of wrap-around, holistic care service delivery and child-focused, trauma-informed collaborative response to child abuse, designed to facilitate powerful positive experiences for children and their families.

Over the next four years, the project will develop and implement a Child and Youth Advocacy Centre in Durham Region of Ontario. The centre will be a multidisciplinary service to address the needs of child and youth victims and/or witnesses as they navigate the criminal justice system, thereby minimizing system-induced trauma by providing a single, child-friendly setting for young victims or witnesses and their families seeking services.

Over the next five years, the Victoria Child and Youth Advocacy Centre will provide trauma informed, culturally sensitive services to children and youth who are victims of abuse in a child centred environment and continue to engage and sustain relationships with all related community partners via the multidisciplinary team model.

Over the next five years, Windsor Essex Child/Youth Advocacy Centre will deliver services to children/youth and families/caregivers impacted by abuse by providing one location for an Advocate and all community partners to collaborate. This coordinated approach allows law enforcement, child protection workers, counselling and medical services to systematically minimize trauma and make a positive difference in the lives of many children/youth and their families.

The organization will provide a comfortable and safe child-friendly environment for children and youth who are victims of abuse and help them navigate the criminal justice system. The project will also ensure the well-being and resiliency of the multi-disciplinary team members, by offering trauma training and professional development opportunities.

Over the next five years, the project will develop and pilot services at the Beacon House Child and Youth Advocacy Centre in London Ontario. The Centre will be a multidisciplinary service to address the needs of child and youth victims and/or witnesses as they navigate the criminal justice system, thereby minimizing system-induced trauma by providing a single, child-friendly setting for young victims or witnesses and their families seeking services.

Over the next five years, this project will deliver ongoing services to children, youth and families thereby minimizing system-induced trauma by providing a single, child-friendly setting for young victims or witnesses and their families seeking services. The project includes expanding services to provide support to children and youths of all forms of violence.

Abbotsford Restorative Justice and Advocacy Association’s pilot project entitled “Rising Together: Reimagining the Referral System for Restorative Justice in Abbotsford” will conduct community engagement activities to revamp their referral system and mentorship program for justice-involved youth. An Advisory Group will be put in place to oversee and support the whole process, with the goal of implementing a new restorative justice program that is more youth centered.