Carrier Sekani Family Services Society: federal grants and contributions

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

• Indigenous Services Canada
• Child and Family Services, Social Development

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

• Indigenous Services Canada
• Child and Family Services

Over the next five years, Carrier Sekani Family Services will develop a Child and Youth Advocacy Centre in Prince George, British Columbia serving Indigenous and non-Indigenous children and youth. The centre will be a multidisciplinary service to address the needs of child and youth victims and/or witnesses as they navigate the criminal justice system, thereby minimizing system-induced trauma by providing a single, child-friendly setting for young victims or witnesses and their families seeking services.

• Department of Justice Canada
• Victims Fund
• Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge

Through this 34-month project, Carrier Sekani Family Services Society will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people with a focus on individuals leaving domestic violence in Northern British Columbia. This will be achieved by completing an organizational review of programming; an environmental scan of Indigenous specific programs nationally; setting up a steering committee and focus groups with various Nations along Highway 16; engaging a university partner in research, results analysis, and model design; and

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program

This 27-month project will use a logic model for social change and evaluation to support Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survivors and their families through film and online media. Carrier Sekani Family Services Society will achieve this by creating 10 short films of women and girls who live in communities along the Highway of Tears who will tell their stories and share wisdom on themes such as healthy relationships, cultural practices and their life experiences addressing gender-based violence and discrimination. The films will be used to highlight specific Calls for Justice to challenge and reve

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Gender-Based Violence Program

Through this 32-month project, Carrier Sekani Family Services Society will help advance Indigenous women and girls’ representation in leadership and decision-making roles by creating spaces for policy forum discussions to occur that will create systemic change along Highway 16 (Highway of Tears) in Northern BC. This project will conduct an environmental scan of the original Highway of Tears recommendation report, conduct community consultations and focus groups in communities along Highway 16 to develop a new community led action plan. Carrier Sekani Family Services Society will host the Hig

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

This 11-month project will honour the lives and legacies of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals and increase awareness about missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls and LGBTQ2S individuals. Project activities will include the creation and installation of a commemorative marker to be placed at the beginning of the Highway of Tears (Highway 16) in Prince George, British Columbia.

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Department for Women and Gender Equality

• Child and Family Services, Social Development
• Child and Family Services

All grants from Indigenous Services Canada

• Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program
• Gender-Based Violence Program
• Women's Program
• Department for Women and Gender Equality

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• Victims Fund

All grants from Department of Justice Canada

• Child and Family Services, Social Development

• Women's Program

• Victims Fund
• Equality for Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Expression Program

• Gender-Based Violence Program

• Child and Family Services

• Department for Women and Gender Equality