Grants and Contributions

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 11 to May 17, 2025. Victims and Survivors of Crime Week projects provide an opportunity to raise awareness about victim issues and about the programs, services and laws in place to help victims and survivors of crime and their families.

The project aims to transform mediation practices by adapting the HELP Toolkit to apply the HELP-M approach. The adapted Toolkit will support standardized screening for family violence, gender-based violence and coercive control for mediators. The project will complete a needs assessment, engage with stakeholders, conduct focus groups and interviews, and consult with an advisory committee who will guide the toolkit’s development and implementation. The toolkit will be comprehensive, culturally competent and trauma-informed to support mediators to identify and address family violence.

Through a culturally safe and survivor-led approach, the Supporting Indigenous Survivors of Human Trafficking Pilot Project will develop comprehensive anti-trafficking training and a toolkit to support survivors exiting trafficking and a victim support model.

The Family Information Liaison Unit will continue to provide a “one-stop information service” to families. The Family Information Liaison Unit will provide information to family members pertaining to a missing or murdered Indigenous person. The Ontario Family Information Liaison Unit workers are of Indigenous ancestry, knowledgeable, culturally competent, and responsive to the needs of the family members they serve. The Family Information Liaison Unit engages with key justice partners, including crown attorneys, provincial, municipal, and Indigenous police services, court offices and victim service agencies.

This project will work to re-establish and strengthen the role of Indigenous laws. Knowledge will be gathered and shared in traditional camp settings with community, Elders and Justice partners; knowledge will be incorporated into court processes with provincial partners, and two conferences will focus on community-based models of justice and governance. The findings will inform the development of a legal framework rooted in traditional Cree laws and governance systems.

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 11 to May 17, 2025. Victims and Survivors of Crime Week projects provide an opportunity to raise awareness about victim issues and about the programs, services and laws in place to help victims and survivors of crime and their families.

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 11 to May 17, 2025. Victims and Survivors of Crime Week projects provide an opportunity to raise awareness about victim issues and about the programs, services and laws in place to help victims and survivors of crime and their families.

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 11 to May 17, 2025. Victims and Survivors of Crime Week projects provide an opportunity to raise awareness about victim issues and about the programs, services and laws in place to help victims and survivors of crime and their families.

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 11 to May 17, 2025. Victims and Survivors of Crime Week projects provide an opportunity to raise awareness about victim issues and about the programs, services and laws in place to help victims and survivors of crime and their families.

This multi-year project supports core capacity for ongoing consultation and cooperation activities in the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UN Declaration), the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (UNDA) and measures included in the Action Plan.