BARBRA SCHLIFER COMMEMORATIVE CLINIC: federal grants and contributions: 14 agreements; $6.8M value; 3 departments; 8 programs.
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The project will increase the organization's capacity to expand their services to provide in-house wrap-around legal services to survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence with triage services, risk assessment, safety planning, housing, interpretation and counselling services across the continuum of gender-based violence. The organization will also partner with local community organizations across Ontario to offer satellite services where survivors have already established relationships of trust and safety.
This project will research, develop and test the application of risk assessment methodologies that identify and address the needs of women survivors of gender-based violence in order to increase the ability of service providers to assess risk in a sensitive and responsive manner, which can ultimately save lives. Supplemental funding will allow the organization to respond to the feedback received from survivors, by expanding the promising practice developed, to include a Safety Assessment Web-Tool for Survivors.
The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic will aim to expand their support for survivors of sexual harassment in precarious workplaces. The focus will be on providing comprehensive advisory legal services both in-person and remotely, ensuring accessibility for those who cannot visit their centers. By broadening their reach, the organization will aim to ensure that more individuals have access to the resources and support they need to navigate their experiences and seek justice.
Through this 30-month project, Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic will scale up its promising practices to prevent and respond to the criminalization of GBV survivors by adapting them to local realities in Alberta, Nova Scotia, Quebec, and Ontario. Regional court observations at four sites across the country will be conducted and key learnings will be discussed at a series of regional forums for GBV-sector organizations. The project will produce regional reports and a fact sheet-series on topics such as working with a criminal lawyer, applying for legal aid, coercive control, mandatory charg
The project will increase the organization's capacity to expand their services to provide in-house wrap-around legal services to survivors of sexual assault and intimate partner violence with triage services, risk assessment, safety planning, housing, interpretation and counselling services across the continuum of gender-based violence. The organization will also partner with local community organizations across Ontario to offer satellite services where survivors have already established relationships of trust and safety.
Through this 29-month systemic change project, Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic will help advance women’s economic security and prosperity and representation in leadership through systemic change. The project will engage with diverse senior women survivors of violence who face challenges in securing employment, pilot a program to promote senior women in leadership roles and support them to develop awareness raising and advocacy tools to challenging stereotypes. They will then collaborate with employers, job placement agencies, and relevant stakeholders to promote systemic policy changes in
This 31-month project will research, develop, and disseminate an evidence-based gender equity playbook and online platform to address the root causes of gender-based violence (GBV) and support survivors in the new post-COVID reality who are high-need, high-risk, or from harder-to-reach communities. The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic will achieve this by: conducting research with GBV-service organizations providing high-need case management supports in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), as well as trauma-informed research with survivors accessing high-need case management services; building
The project will develop trauma-informed public legal education resources for women who face sexual harassment in the hospitality and service industry in Toronto. Resources will be developed to inform women of their rights, community and legal supports available, and how to navigate the legal system and approach employers. Resources will be translated into multiple languages to ensure accessibility.
The Self-Represented Survivors (SRS) of Gender-Based Violence project will help the Clinic to increase its capacity to support clients by offering practical and survivor-centered support in-house, through the Clinic’s central intake and wrap-around services model. The clinic will play a specialized intake role and offer direct support and informational resources to their clients and connect them with legal aid and trauma-informed lawyers. The project will also develop and deliver training for legal stakeholders on the unique needs of SRS clients. A self-directed online course will be made avai
This 59-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the development of a sustainable and comprehensive fundraising strategy that will enable the organization to increase their sources of secure, predictable, unrestricted funding. This will allow the Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic to meet the increase in demand for their services, cover administrative costs, and enable their continued leadership in antivio
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.
Through the application of national and local priorities, the CSJ program seeks to provide youth, particularly those who face barriers to employment with access to work opportunities. Funded employers must demonstrate that they are providing quality work experiences for youth that provide opportunities to develop and improve their skills.
Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 27 to June 2, 2018. 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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Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.