Grants and Contributions

The SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships support the most promising Canadian new scholars in the social sciences and humanities and assists them in establishing a research base at an important time in their research careers.

The Reconciliation Network Coordination Hub aims to support the establishment of a reconciliation network with a Coordination Hub to support solid interactions between the network's participating researchers and develop efficient knowledge mobilization activities

The purpose of this contribution is to provide funding to hire a program manager to conduct research and community consultation exercises to identify and address knowledge gaps at the community level related to high risk youth and gun and gang violence.

The purpose of this contribution is to provide funding to implement a three-year prevention/intervention plan alongside multi-sectoral community partners to decrease risk factors and increase protective factors among participating high risk and vulnerable youth.

The SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships support the most promising Canadian new scholars in the social sciences and humanities and assists them in establishing a research base at an important time in their research careers.

Through this 12-month project, 3 Mothers Medicine Cooperative will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on trans, Two-Spirit, nonbinary people who are part of the urbanized Indigenous community in British Columbia. This will be achieved by establishing a new registered non-profit cooperative, developing core organizational competencies, and building networks and partnerships.

This project will partner with Rainbow Health Cooperative to act as the external fiscal agent until 3 Mothers Medicine Cooperative is formally registered and have developed their financial management capacity.

By the end of the project, 3 Mothers Medicine Cooperative will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on urbanized Indigenous community in British Columbia

Through this 41-month project, CAAN Communities, Alliances & Networks will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people. This will be achieved through capacity-building and engagement processes with staff, membership, and partners with the aim to implement a GBA Plus framework that centres GBV prevention as a core consideration in its governance and policy, community engagement, programming, and research. Key project activities include: conducting a needs assessment to collectively reflect on CAAN’s GBV-related work and identify recommendations and priority actions; conducting an internal review of current policies and protocols responding to GBV to identify needs, and developing and delivering a GBA Plus GBV inclusivity training and evaluation tools in response to the identified needs. The organization will also work on board governance policies to create the structural elements to support organizational GBV prevention.

Through this 29-month project, Dze l k'ant Friendship Centre Society (FC) will increase their ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people, with a focus on individuals impacted by gender-based violence in the Smithers-Telkwa Regional District and Houston.

This will be achieved by developing and implementing a new Strategic Plan, assessing and strengthening Board governance, reviewing, updating and implementing at least one existing FC policy and procedure manual, and developing and implementing one new policy and procedure manual specific to how the FC manages its event Hall focussing on preventing gender-based violence during and after external events. In the process of developing the Strategic Plan, FC will seek to build its network and identify potential partnerships with external entities that may be linked to activities preventing and addressing GBV.

By the end of the project, Dze l k'ant Friendship Centre Society will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQIA+ people, with a focus on with a focus on individuals impacted by gender-based violence.

Through this 41-month project, the Indigenous Women’s Sharing Society (IWSS) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on individuals impacted by GBV in the Comox Valley Regional District. This will be achieved by strengthening the capacity of the IWSS board, developing and implementing a three-year strategic plan, and developing and implementing a fundraising and grant writing manual. In the process of developing the strategic plan, the Indigenous Women’s Sharing Society will seek to build its network through community engagement and identify potential partnerships that may be linked to activities preventing and addressing GBV. By the end of the project, the Indigenous Women’s Sharing Society will have strengthened its capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on individuals impacted by GBV.

This 41-month project will strengthen Ka Ni Kanichihk’s capacity to prevent gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ peoples through the improvement of partnerships, sharing of information and the development of skill-based tools. Specifically, the project will hire a GBV Capacity Coordinator and Project Facilitator who will lead the development of a forum of networks and training sessions to strengthen capacity and advance GBV work within organizations and communities.

The project will further develop existing Ending Violence Against Women educational materials to create a new Manitoba-based Indigenous Toolkit and a GBV evaluation and risk framework to pilot for participating partners and networks working in or seeking to work within GBV. Ka Ni Kanichihk will collaborate with the Manitoba Harm Reduction Network on the capacity building content. Their ten regional harm reduction and sexual health networks will ensure provincial reach distribution channels throughout Manitoba.

At the end of this project, Ka Ni Kanichihk will have strengthened their own capacity while also providing resources and guidance to partners across Manitoba to prevent and address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people.