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Title:

Building Capacity for Positive Change

Agreement Number:

SO230014

Agreement Value:

$400,000.00

Agreement Date:

Jun 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2026

Description:

Through this 34-month project, Lillooet Friendship Centre Society (LFCS) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people with a focus on Indigenous people living on a low income and/or with disabilities in the Lillooet area. This will be achieved by conducting internal and external needs assessments to determine gaps in GBV services and programming, creating a strategic plan that supports the LFCS’s ability to prevent and address GBV, conducting staff and board training to increase organizational knowledge of GBV, and developing an organizational action plan for the staff and board that will enhance LFCS’s ability to address GBV. LFCS will also update their HR manual with learnings from the assessments, develop partnerships to prevent and address GBV, analyze and implement new policies to help prevent and address GBV in the community, and create an advocacy plan for victims and survivors of GBV. By the end of the project, LFCS will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, with a focus on Indigenous people living on a low income and/or with disabilities in the Lillooet area.

Organization:

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Expected Results:

Partnerships and collaborations are established and/or strengthened to support the LGBTQ2 movement LGBTQ2 organizations have increased knowledge and capacity to advance equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression.

Location:

Lillooet, British Columbia, CA V0K 1V0

Reference Number:

001-2023-2024-Q2-00052

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Aboriginal recipient

Additional Information:

Change of end date

Amendment Date

Mar 7, 2025

Recipient's Legal Name:

Lillooet Friendship Centre Society

Program:

Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program

Program Purpose:

The purpose of ESSOGIE program is to advance social, political and economic equality with respect to sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression.

Advancement towards a greater understanding of the intersection of sex and gender with other identity factors that include race, national and ethnic origin, Indigenous origin or identity, age, sexual orientation, socio-economic condition, place of residence and disability are encouraged under the Program.

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