Grants and Contributions:

Taking an Innovative Community Approach to Prevent GBV

GV230308

$613,736.00

Oct 1, 2023 - Mar 31, 2026

Through this 30-month project, the Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness (CCAA) will adapt and test the Impacts of Recovery Innovations (IMRI) Framework within the York Region GBV sector to support the transformation of services and systems toward a recovery orientation, and facilitate improved awareness, understanding and application of secondary prevention activities. To do so, the project will engage persons with lived experience and community partners to cocreate and deliver education material, storytelling by survivors and trauma-informed processes and practices through a virtual community platform. CCAA will undertake knowledge mobilization activities on its virtual platform. It will also disseminate lessons learned and knowledge gained from the project through publications and community information sessions so that others may replicate it or expand upon it. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of the framework.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Newmarket, Ontario, CA L3Y 7B2

001-2023-2024-Q3-00111

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Canadian Centre for Abuse Awareness (Abuse Hurts)

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.