Grants and Contributions:

Accelerating Systemic Change to Prevent Sexual Exploitation of Vulnerable Young Women and 2SLGBTQ+ Youth

GV21818

$664,745.00

Aug 11, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

This 30-month project will develop and implement best practices and resources created by the Ontario’s education sectors to scale up across Canada and in Ontario’s Catholic system to address the root causes of gender-based violence. White Ribbon will achieve this by increasing collaboration within the educational sectors and community partners to utilize Ontario’s education sectors best practices and change harmful gender norms, attitudes, and behaviours. Working across Canada, White Ribbon will advance gender equality for vulnerable female youth, Indigenous, racialized, and 2SLGBTQ+ folks who experienced sexual exploitation within the pandemic through creating systemic change. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change and addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality. Through this project, White Ribbon will scale up what Ontario’s education sector has achieved in terms of best practices in the Ontario’s Catholic system and other Canadian education sectors. To scale up, they will build on Ontario’s lessons learned and adapt the training/classroom resources for use in New Brunswick, Quebec, British Colombia and Yukon ensuring they meet each province/territory's curriculum requirements. They will increase networking, accelerate change and ensure a consistent prevention approach to sexual exploitation of youth who are at high risk within COVID-19. Administrators, School Boards, Principals, Unions, and Educators will embrace their responsibility in ending sexual exploitation. In the classrooms, competent trained teachers will use the prepared lesson plans to change harmful gender norms and attitudes and prevent further harm by empowering youth with the knowledge, attitudes, and skills they need.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Promising practices are incorporated by the GBV sector into new or enhanced supports for target populations.

Toronto, Ontario, CA M4R 1A1

001-2021-2022-Q3-00044

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

White Ribbon Campaign

Gender-Based Violence Program

The purpose of the GBV Program is to strengthen the GBV sector to address gaps in supports for two groups of survivors: 1) Indigenous women and their communities, and 2) underserved populations (including women living with a disability, non-status/refugee /immigrant women, LGBTQ2S, gender non-conforming people and ethno-cultural women) in Canada. The Program provides grant and contribution funding to Canadian organizations to improve supports to help create long-term, comprehensive solutions at the national, regional, and local levels.