Grants and Contributions:

Improving the separation process for survivors fleeing abuse in Canada

NA21649

$469,127.00

Apr 1, 2022 - Mar 31, 2024

This 24-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. Shelter Movers will achieve this by researching the processes and treatment that survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) experience in judicial systems and in accessing social support services, developing recommendations to end practices and policies that discriminate and retraumatize, and creating a coalition to share information and advocate for changes to legislation, judicial practices and support services. The project will also focus on identifying additional systemic challenges faced by survivors fleeing abuse in rural and remote areas, and test recommendations for changes to support service organizations’ practices in these areas. At the end of the project Shelter Movers will have contributed to reducing systemic barriers by developing and testing recommendations to improve services for GBV survivors, and by building an advocacy coalition that will continue to work towards improving supports and services for GBV survivors.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

Women and stakeholders have access to supports to address issues relating to equality between women and men.

Toronto, Ontario, CA M4S 2C6

001-2022-2023-Q1-00056

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Not-for-profit organization or charity

Shelter Movers

Women's Program

The purpose of the Women’s Program is to advance equality for women in Canada by working to address or remove systemic barriers impeding women’s progress and advancement. The WP supports the Government of Canada’s goal of advancing gender equality in Canada. It is consistent with Government of Canada priorities related to economic prosperity, and supports Canada’s international commitments related to gender equality.