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Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 27 to June 2, 2018. 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 will develop trauma-informed public legal education resources for women who face sexual harassment in the hospitality and service industry in Toronto. Resources will be developed to inform women of their rights, community and legal supports available, and how to navigate the legal system and approach employers. Resources will be translated into multiple languages to ensure accessibility.

The project will increase the organization's capacity to expand their services to provide in-house wrap-around legal services to survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence with triage services, risk assessment, safety planning, housing, interpretation and counselling services across the continuum of gender-based violence. The organization will also partner with local community organizations across Ontario to offer satellite services where survivors have already established relationships of trust and safety.

The project will increase the organization's capacity to expand their services to provide in-house wrap-around legal services to survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence with triage services, risk assessment, safety planning, housing, interpretation and counselling services across the continuum of gender-based violence. The organization will also partner with local community organizations across Ontario to offer satellite services where survivors have already established relationships of trust and safety.

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 14 to May 20, 2023. 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.

Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.

This 47-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of a sustainable and comprehensive fundraising strategy that will enable the organization to increase their sources of secure, predictable, unrestricted funding. This will allow the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic to meet the increase in demand for their services, cover administrative costs, and enable their continued leadership in antiviolence advocacy and legal reform initiatives, as Canada’s only gender-based violence legal clinic.

This 31-month project will research, develop, and disseminate an evidence-based gender equity playbook and online platform to address the root causes of gender-based violence (GBV) and support survivors in the new post-COVID reality who are high-need, high-risk, or from harder-to-reach communities. The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic will achieve this by: conducting research with GBV-service organizations providing high-need case management supports in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), as well as trauma-informed research with survivors accessing high-need case management services; building a coalition of service organizations and other stakeholders supporting survivors from high-need, high-risk, and harder-to-reach communities; working with the coalition to develop a gender equity playbook and online platform to support survivors in the new post-COVID reality; and disseminating this knowledge through training workshops for service providing organizations.

At the end of the project, the Schlifer Clinic will have developed promising practices that increased networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supported positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, advanced inclusive policies and practices, and encouraged a more equitable and effective sharing of resources, to support GBV survivors.

This 59-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of a sustainable and comprehensive fundraising strategy that will enable the organization to increase their sources of secure, predictable, unrestricted funding. This will allow the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic to meet the increase in demand for their services, cover administrative costs, and enable their continued leadership in antiviolence advocacy and legal reform initiatives, as Canada’s only gender-based violence legal clinic.