Grants and Contributions:
Title:
Empowering At-Risk and Sexually Exploited Women in British
Columbia
Agreement Number:
HT20322
Agreement Value:
$399,959.00
Agreement Date:
Apr 1, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024
Description:
This 36-month project with the Justice Education Society of BC will develop, implement, and evaluate prevention and intervention programs that will enhance empowerment supports to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk women and girls, as well as women, especially Indigenous women, survivors of human trafficking in British Columbia.
This will be achieved by education and intervention programming workshop/ webinar series, educational resource distribution and needs assessments that will integrate survivor’s experiences and recognize the intersectionality of human trafficking, gender-based violence and gender equality.
At the end of the project, the organization will have conducted a needs assessment, produced and distributed educational resource and intervention programming, delivered prevention education in a mentorship program, and evaluated Human trafficking prevention and intervention practices.
The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practice.
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:
Vancouver, British Columbia, CA V6Z 2C5
Reference Number:
001-2020-2021-Q4-00036
Agreement Type:
Contribution
Report Type:
Grants and Contributions
Recipient Type:
Not-for-profit organization or charity
Recipient's Legal Name:
Justice Education Society of BC
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.