Grants and Contributions

Youth Take Charge

This 12-month project will strengthen the capacity of Calgary Outlink: Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity to advance LGBTQ2 equality. This will be achieved by building managerial capacity through the development of a governance model; strategic planning; enhancing skills expertise for the implementation; and diversifying funding sources.

A comprehensive review of organizational policies, procedures, and skills development needs will be performed, during which staff will be actively engaged in facilitated planning, training, and decision-making sessions. Through this process, a new governance model and onboarding resources needed for long-term strategic planning and sustainability will be developed, including a summary report of recommendations for the organization’s mission, values, and goals.

Through this 40-month project, the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people, with a focus on 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals in urban centres in Ontario. This will be achieved by assessing and increasing internal capacity to support Indigenous 2SLGBTQQIA+ community members; developing an inclusive framework to ensure that 2SLGBTQQIA+ roles and responsibilities are restored and honoured; ensuring the development of resources and supporting the delivery of training to members of Friendship Centres across the province on 2SLGBTQQIA+ inclusivity; developing a framework to implement the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan across Friendship Centres; and promoting the findings of the project to GBV and Indigenous community agencies and policy-makers. The project will prevent and address gender-based violence through the promotion and reclamation of traditional roles and responsibilities of 2SLGBTQQIA+ community members through access to culture and ceremony and to promote a reduction in violence, prevent violence, and begin to address gender-based violence in cases where violence is ongoing.

The supplemental funding will be used to develop and implement self-advocacy training and a 2SLGBTQQIA+ training curriculum to member Friendship Centres and other key partners.

By the end of the project, the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people, with a focus on 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals in urban centres in Ontario.

Through this 40-month project, the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ people, with a focus on 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals in urban centres in Ontario. This will be achieved by assessing and increasing internal capacity to support Indigenous 2SLGBTQQIA+ community members; developing an inclusive framework to ensure that 2SLGBTQQIA+ roles and responsibilities are restored and honoured; ensuring the development of resources and supporting the delivery of training to members of Friendship Centres across the province on 2SLGBTQQIA+ inclusivity; developing a framework to implement the MMIWG2SLGBTQQIA+ National Action Plan across Friendship Centres; and promoting the findings of the project to GBV and Indigenous community agencies and policymakers. The project will prevent and address gender-based violence through the promotion and reclamation of traditional roles and responsibilities of 2SLGBTQQIA+ community members through access to culture and ceremony and to promote a reduction in violence, prevent violence, and begin to address gender-based violence in cases where violence is ongoing.

By the end of the project, the Ontario Federation of Indigenous Friendship Centres will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people, with a focus on 2SLGBTQQIA+ individuals in urban centres in Ontario.

Establishing a Gender and Sexuality Resource Centre

This 15-month project will strengthen the capacity and networks of Calgary Outlink to advance LGBTQ2 equality. This will be achieved by building managerial capacity through the development of a program logic model, strategic and advocacy plans; enhancing technical expertise through research and a two-phased environmental scan; and building collective capacity and strengthening collaboration and partnerships among organizations to share knowledge and identify barriers and resource gaps for sustainability.

At the end of the project, the organization will increased knowledge and capacity to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

The Youth Employment Strategy is the Government of Canada's commitment to help young people, particularly those facing barriers to employment, get the information and gain the skills, work experience and abilities they need to make a successful transition to the workplace.

Capacity building regarding Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, Expression and Sex Characteristics from the human rights perspective