Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Get Prouder: Improving LGBTQ2 Equity and Community Building in West Yellowhead County.
Agreement Number:
SO220233
Agreement Value:
$278,361.00
Agreement Date:
Sep 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2024
Description:
Through this 7-month project, Out Jasper will develop community-informed solutions to key barriers and gaps to address the rural experiences of the LGBTQ2 communities in the West Yellowhead Region of Alberta. This will be achieved in partnership with Options HIV West Yellowhead by conducting focus groups in Jasper, Hinton, Edson and Whitecourt in Alberta to identify unique issues facing each town that will form a LGBTQ2 advisory committee to explore and develop practical solutions and guide our project, decreasing barriers for the LGBTQ2 community of each rural town through education, building community through creating alliance groups and implementing LGBTQ2 focused events and improving access to services for all through intersectional analysis, and increasing local visibility and awareness. They will also facilitate advisory committee meetings and work with committee members to implement proposed solutions to the rural LGBTQ2 communities and will develop and coordinate Safe Space training in collaboration with local LGBTQ2 members and will offer training to local businesses and agencies in order to facilitate a welcomeness towards diversity at the community level.
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:
Jasper, Alberta, CA T0E 1E0
Reference Number:
001-2023-2024-Q2-00070
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
Out Jasper LGBTQA 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.