Grants and Contributions:

Women's Safety at the Centre (of the Systemic Response to Gender Based Violence)

ON21527

$279,195.00

Oct 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. The Northwestern Ontario Women’s Centre (NOWC) will achieve this by operationalizing the implementation of their High Risk Navigation Protocol and promoting its use as a central tool among service providers to relocate the safety of women, Trans and non-binary people and their children at the front end of the systemic response to Gender Based Violence (GBV); scaling up the GBV Navigation advocate position; creating a Court advocate position to reinforce and monitor the use of safety measures in legal processes; identifying gaps, examining links, researching alternative measures; and creating and publishing recommendations to change GBV protocols and policies, disseminating information, encouraging systemic change, promoting effective measures of accountability and prevention of GBV both inside and outside the criminal legal system. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, addressing persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes to support women’s equality. The organization partnered with Thunder Bay and District Coordinating Committee to End Women Abuse (TBDCCEWA), with funding from Law Foundation of Ontario, to develop the High Risk Navigation Protocol which will be operationalized and implemented during this project. Members of TBDCCEWA will support the protocol’s implementation. Dissemination of project information will also be shared on NOWC’s “Analysis to Action on Gender-Based Violence” website.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Women and stakeholders have access to supports to address issues relating to equality between women and men.

Thunder Bay, Ontario, CA P7A 4A9

001-2021-2022-Q3-00124

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Northwestern Ontario Women's Centre

Women's Program

The purpose of the Women’s Program is to advance equality for women in Canada by working to address or remove systemic barriers impeding women’s progress and advancement. The WP supports the Government of Canada’s goal of advancing gender equality in Canada. It is consistent with Government of Canada priorities related to economic prosperity, and supports Canada’s international commitments related to gender equality.