Grants and Contributions:

Arts-Based Gender-Based Violence Prevention for Northern Youth

GV230375

$846,800.00

Apr 1, 2024 - Sep 30, 2027

Through this 42-month project, FOXY will develop, implement, and evaluate promising intervention practices that will advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk populations of gender-based violence in the Northwest Territories, Yukon, and Nunavut. Specifically, the project will design and develop a culturally safe, Northern-focused, gender-based violence prevention program based on evidence, best-practices and trauma-informed pedagogy. Youth, Northern-based researchers, clinicians, community members, and Elders will participate in all aspects of the development of the intervention. Specifically, the project will focus on young Northern and Indigenous young women (including trans-women) participants and gender-diverse youth. With the Supplemental funds and extension provided in early 2026, FOXY will develop, implement, and evaluate a land-based Retreat to train and mentor a cohort of Gender-Based Violence Prevention Champions who are youth of all genders from across the three territories. Champions will receive extensive training and mentorship in trauma-informed gender-based violence prevention and design a traveling gender-based violence prevention art exhibit at the Retreat. GBV Prevention Champions will then lead sharing of knowledge about the exhibit through a social media campaign and with community members at FOXY-led community gatherings across the North. The project activities will be evaluated by an independent Evaluator, and project findings will continue to be shared with partners and networks. Through this they will further advance Gender Equality.

Women and Gender Equality Canada

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

Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, CA X1A 1Y4

001-2023-2024-Q3-00164

Contribution

Grants and Contributions

Aboriginal recipient

Increase of agreement value, Change of end date

Apr 15, 2026

FOXY

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.