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  "retrieved": "2026-10-16T10:38:13Z",
  "source": "Assay Systems register, https://assay-systems.com/register/",
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    "name": "ONTARIO NATIVE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: federal grants and contributions",
    "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/ontario-native-women-s-association/",
    "summary": "22 federal grant and contribution agreements worth $5.6M with ONTARIO NATIVE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION, 2006–2024.",
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        "value": 8,
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        "value": 11,
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    "text": [
      "This 60-month project will build on work previously undertaken by ONWA in 1989 and 2015, using a community development model to find strategies to help communities in their efforts to combat violence and system discrimination. The project will engage with Indigenous women, using a trauma-based care approach and cultural practices to develop recommendations for both organizational and system-wide approaches and mechanisms to respond to the needs of Indigenous women survivors of violence.",
      "To address systemic racism and discrimination in Canada’s health systems by striving to ensure high quality health services are efficient and accessible, and by reducing health inequalities.",
      "The Ontario Native Women’s Association’s overall goal of this program is to support families and loved ones of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls (MMIWG). The program will continue to honour the memory of MMIWG through ceremony and other cultural activities, which is essential to family healing. The program will provide information, coordination, counselling and ceremonial supports to families of Indigenous women, girls and 2S people who have been murdered or gone missing. This program will leverage the expertise of Indigenous women, lessons learned through its existing work and mob",
      "This 44-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Ontario Native Women’s Association (ONWA) to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through strengthening capacity of Indigenous women and organizations across the province of Ontario by providing culturally-sensitive training and resources grounded by the wisdom of Indigenous women’s perspectives and knowledge. ONWA will build its leadership through diversifying its funding case, and building training and program delivery capacity.",
      "The organization will support families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls by providing counseling, information and ceremonial supports to assist them in the process of healing and reconciliation. The organization will host four traditional ceremonies to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The organization will also promote capacity building among organizations by developing and delivering training that will better equip organizations to address the multiple layers of recent and historical trauma that Indigenous families face with trauma-informed care and cul",
      "The organization will provide a Gladue Program for Indigenous women and girls involved in the justice system who are victims and survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. The program will draw from the voices and expertise of Indigenous women and girls with lived experience of being trafficked and sexually exploited to provide culturally grounded and holistic trauma-informed supports and services in support of their healing, ability to foster family reunification and access to safe housing. The organization will also develop and deliver specialized training for law enforcement, g",
      "The organization will support families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls by providing counseling, information and ceremonial supports to assist them in the process of healing and reconciliation. The organization will host four traditional ceremonies to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. The organization will also promote capacity building among organizations by developing and delivering training that will better equip organizations to address the multiple layers of recent and historical trauma that Indigenous families face with trauma-informed care and cul",
      "This project aims to contribute to the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (UNDA) and Action Plan, by developing a national-scale public education campaign for Indigenous women to strengthen their knowledge regarding discussions and research into the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and to be actively involved in the implementation of the Action Plan through multiple engagement sessions.",
      "This 19-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include a series of commemorative art exhibits, hosted in four different cities throughout Ontario: Thunder Bay, Ottawa, Kenora, and Sioux Lookout; the collaborative Indigenous arts-based approaches used in this series will be self-determined by the families in each region, to honor their loved one in collaboration with ONWA, while encouraging",
      "This five year project will identifying innovative recommendations for culturally grounded, gender based and trauma informed approaches to justice. Indigenous women with lived experience with the justice system will be key participants.",
      "Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)",
      "This project aims to contribute to the implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (UNDA) and Action Plan, by developing a national-scale public education campaign for Indigenous women to strengthen their knowledge regarding discussions and research into the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) and to be actively involved in the implementation of the Action Plan through multiple engagement sessions.",
      "Community Support, Multiculturalism and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program - Multi Inter-Action - Events",
      "Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)",
      "Host public exhibits in three Ontario locations which will include commemorative art pieces, project participant videos and interviews to create a space of healing for those directly affected by Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and to bring awareness through stories and art pieces.",
      "YIP - coordinate community networking events/information sessions and to develop promotional materials for the Lodge",
      "The objective of this project aims to set up a food distribution service and collective cooking workshops.",
      "Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)",
      "Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 14 to May 20, 2023. Victims and Survivors of Crime Week projects provide an opportunity to raise awareness about victim issues and about the programs, services and laws in place to help victims and survivors of crime and their families."
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      {
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        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/"
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      {
        "name": "Taiaiako'n-Parkdale-High Park",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/riding/35105-taiaiakon-parkdale-high-park/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Women and Gender Equality Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/women-and-gender-equality-canada/"
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      {
        "name": "Health Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/health-canada/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Department of Justice Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/department-of-justice-canada/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Indigenous Services Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/indigenous-services-canada/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Canadian Heritage",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/canadian-heritage/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/crown-indigenous-relations-and-northern-affairs-canada/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/innovation-science-and-economic-development-canada/"
      },
      {
        "name": "Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada",
        "url": "https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/department/agriculture-and-agri-food-canada/"
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    "cite_as": "Assay Systems, \"ONTARIO NATIVE WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: federal grants and contributions\", https://assay-systems.com/register/ca/grants/r/ontario-native-women-s-association/"
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