Grants and Contributions:

Fostering a BIPOC community of practice and anti-racist reflexive practices within sexual violence services, Ontario

GV230286

$532,121.00

Sep 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2026

Through this 31-month project, the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC) will scale a BIPOC community of practice model and implement anti-racist reflexive practices within sexual violence services to strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the need for 1) increased support and decreased isolation for BIPOC staff in Ontario sexual assault centres, 2) increased support for racialized survivors of sexual violence, and 3) increased opportunities for anti-racist organizational and systems change. To do so, the project will 1) scale a BIPOC counsellor community of practice model to BIPOC outreach, education, and management roles in sexual assault centres in Ontario; 2) create a peer-support meeting model; 3) deploy an existing decolonizing toolkit with allies to enhance organization change; and 4) undertake advocacy work to address the interaction of race and gender oppression on gender-based violence. An evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice. OCRCC will publish the toolkit and related calls to action on the OCRCC webpage; present the promising practice and peer-support meeting model; disseminate advocacy work addressing interaction of race and gender oppression in internal and external networks; and present the evaluation summary to OCRCC leaders, so to share information on the promising practice with others so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Warminster, Ontario, CA L0K 2G0

001-2023-2024-Q2-00005

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres (OCRCC)

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.