Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Training on stigma-informed approach to empowering women while dealing with a challenging life transition
Agreement Number:
HT20387-01
Agreement Value:
$198,523.00
Agreement Date:
Nov 15, 2023 - Mar 31, 2025
Description:
This 16-month project with The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver will produce and test a gender responsive training program for front line case workers working with vulnerable women going through challenging transitions following victimization or criminalization. This project will articulate a practice-oriented conceptual framework to help front-line workers recognize the effects of stigma, understand how stigma is perceived and internalized, and identify the strategies vulnerable women use to manage and cope with stigma. The overall goal is to increase women's self-control, self-efficacy, resiliency, autonomy, and agency while providing more opportunities to take control of their lives by reducing the social exclusion and stigma they encounter. This educational tool will be trauma and stigma informed while appreciating the need to be gender-responsive and culturally appropriate.
This will be achieved by conducting background research and interviews with women, men and youth facing serious forms of social stigma and potential discrimination; development of a gender responsive training program and manual; testing and validation of the gender responsive training program and publication of the training program (both print and online version).
Organization:
Women and Gender Equality Canada
Expected Results:
Promising practices are incorporated by the GBV sector into new or enhanced supports for target populations.
Location:
New Westminster, British Columbia, CA V3L 3X1
Reference Number:
001-2023-2024-Q3-00155
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver
Program:
Gender-Based Violence Program
Program Purpose:
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.