Violence Prevention Strategy for Urban Indigenous Women and Children

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. This 12-month project with Regina Treaty / Status Indian Services Inc. will develop and implement a holistic program delivery approach that addresses the diverse needs of clients to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for at-risk Indigenous women and children. This will be achieved by recruiting a clinical mental health counsellor, holding family support group sessions, delivering group counseling sessions, and working closely with partners in services such as addictions, mental health, shelter supports, training and employment, wellness programs, and other types of family supports. At the end of the project, the organization will have the capacity to provide traditional cultural healing strategies and trauma-informed services to victims and survivors of Human Trafficking. The project will include an external evaluation that will look at the success and scalability of the promising practices.

Eligibility

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