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Title:

Trafficking & Indigenous Women with Intellectual/Cognitive Disabilities: Promising Preventative Practices

Agreement Number:

HT20343

Agreement Value:

$169,160.00

Agreement Date:

Mar 15, 2021 - Mar 31, 2024

Description:

This 36-month project with the Native Women’s Resource Centre of Toronto will develop and implement promising practices that will include online/offline resources and community approaches to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for Indigenous women and gender diverse peoples with intellectual and cognitive disabilities who are at-risk of, are currently experiencing, and/or have survived human trafficking. This will be achieved by reconvening the Community Working Group with the addition of a Lived Experience Advisor; performing Community-Based Research, including conducting an Environmental Scan and holding Community Discussion Groups with key stakeholders (including people with lived experience); and developing resources for promising practices and a community strategy that responds to the identified needs of these vulnerable populations. At the end of the project, the organization will have examined the nature of trafficking experiences; developed culturally appropriate and disability sensitive online/offline resources; and implemented a community strategy. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

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:

Toronto, Ontario, CA M5A 2E5

Reference Number:

001-2020-2021-Q4-00041

Agreement Type:

Contribution

Report Type:

Grants and Contributions

Recipient Type:

Aboriginal recipient

Recipient's Legal Name:

Native Women's Resource Centre of Toronto

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.