Grants and Contributions:

Miyo Pimatisowin - Honouring Life

GV21626

$299,861.00

May 15, 2022 - Mar 31, 2024

This 23-month project will examine culturally appropriate models to foster improved responsiveness, fairness, and inclusiveness to address gender-based violence in the Samson Cree Nation Community. An experiential transformational group process that explores traditional teachings around the root causes of gender-based violence will be developed and piloted. Recommendations for preventing and addressing violence against women will be made to community and policy makers. At the end of the project, the organization will have developed a promising practice that increased networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supported the positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, and advanced inclusive policies and practices. This project will engage community, sector experts, and women with lived experience from the Samson Cree Nation in each component of the project. The effectiveness of the transformational group process model will be carefully documented through ongoing evaluation.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Maskwacis, Alberta, CA T0C 1N0

001-2022-2023-Q2-00025

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Indigenous recipients

Samson Cree Nation

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.