Grants and Contributions:

Increasing capacity to provide effective consent education: Focus on Boys and Autistic youth

GV230276

$799,782.00

Apr 1, 2024 - Mar 31, 2026

Through this 24-month project, the Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) will develop and put in place a promising practice in the form of a strategy to increase the ability of educators to provide effective consent education to boys and Autistic youth, which will strengthen the GBV sector. It will address the needs of educators, Autistic youth, and boys, taking an approach that considers various intersecting identities. To do so, the project will implement two sets of the same activities, with one focusing on Autistic youth and the other on boys. This includes scans and reviews of consent literature and educational resources, the development of consent education working groups, conducting online consultations of Canadian educators to determine consent education needs and effective implementation practices, and conducting focus groups with youth to understand their consent education needs and best practices for implementation. SIECCAN will then create and distribute summary reports of consultation and focus group findings, develop backgrounder educator guides focused on improving youth's consent knowledge, attitudes, and skills, as well as develop interactive e-learning consent modules and digital content resources on consent for educators to use with/for youth. The organization will subsequently conduct usability sessions to determine needed revisions to the digital content resources. SIECCAN will disseminate and facilitate the usage of the two sets of consent materials for educators by releasing and promoting the e-learning consent modules and the digital content resources on consent online, and sharing the backgrounder educator guides on the organization’s website, with their educator listserv, and with project partners. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the promising practice through a final report and will additionally work with SIECCAN to evaluate the change in educator knowledge and skills and ability to deliver consent education to Autistic youth and to boys. The external evaluator will also work with project partners to conduct two usability sessions, one with Autistic youth and one with youth (including boys) to determine the effectiveness of the two final digital content resources on consent. SIECCAN will disseminate all educator consent materials at national conferences/workshops to share information and facilitate implementation of the promising practice so that others 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.

Toronto, Ontario, CA M4K 1N2

001-2023-2024-Q3-00049

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Sex Information and Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN) / Conseil du Canada d'information et éducation sexuelle

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.