DisAbled Women's Network Canada: federal grants and contributions

Through this 18-month project, DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (DAWN Canada) will scale a peer support model for women with disabilities (WWD) who are survivors of gender-based violence (GBV) to new local and national partners across Canada. The model addresses gaps in access to peer support for WWD survivors of GBV and focuses on ensuring representation from intersecting identities (such as Black, Indigenous, Racialized, Francophone, 2SLGBTQI, and Deaf women). Project activities will include developing curriculum, delivering training, and providing coaching and support to partners to imple

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

Through this 20-month project, DisAbled Women’s Network of Canada (DAWN Canada) will create communities of practice to increase collaborations between women with disabilities and build networks to support the development of leadership roles for women with disabilities within them and beyond. Communities of practice members will participate in training on advocacy and policy change, to support them in challenging and changing existing policies and practices that exclude them, and help to ensure they are no longer ignored in research or service provision. With the ultimate goal of increasing the

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. DAWN Canada will achieve this by addressing discriminatory legislation, policies, and/or practices that prevent women and/or girls from fully participating in the social, political and economic spheres. This project will build relationships between equality seeking organizations and other stakeholders to collaborate across sectors to advance gender equality as well as convene and strengthen the feminist movement to collaboratively advance gender equality. At the

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

Through this 25-month project, DisAbled Women’s Network Canada (DAWN) will build its capacity to advance gender equality in Canada. It will strengthen DAWN’s ability to drive systemic change by ensuring the continuity and sustainability of its mandate while enhancing its financial management processes, increasing its membership, updating its core feminist disability guide, and deepening its expertise on key policy and human rights areas, specifically to address the needs of women, girls and gender-diverse people with disability. Key activities include conducting an organizational needs assessm

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

Through this 36-month project, DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN) Canada will conduct community-based research that will help improve GBV services for at-risk groups by developing an action-oriented analysis of the peer support continuum. This research project will address the programmatic challenges associated with developing and implementing peer support structures to address the complex, systemic nature of GBV. To do so, the project will include interviews with various actors across the peer support continuum in disability and GBV sectors, the creation of case studies, and a podcast series tha

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

This 60-month project will develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a peer support model as a promising practice for women with disabilities and deaf women who have experienced violence. Subject matter experts will be engaged to ensure a comprehensive model that addresses the complexity and unique needs of the underserved communities of women with disabilities, including Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ, and transgendered, in both rural and urban areas.

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

This 48-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality. Organizational capacity will be enhanced through the following activities: strategic and succession planning; partnership development, collaboration and networking; development of an advocacy strategy; implementation of result based management; organizational financial health and sustainability plan. The DisAbled Women’s Network (DAWN) Canada’s main objectives are to strengthen organizational capacity by improving governance, human

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

• Employment and Social Development Canada
• Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Issues

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• Employment and Social Development Canada
• Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Issues - Contribution

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to develop and evaluate the effectiveness of a peer support model for women with disabilities and Deaf women (WWD/DW) who have experienced violence. Subject matter experts will be engaged to ensure a comprehensive model that addresses the complexity and unique needs of underserved communities of women with disabilities, including Indigenous, racialized, LGBTQ, and transgendered, in both rural and urban areas.

• Status of Women Canada
• Status of Women Canada

• Women's Program
• Gender-Based Violence Program

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Issues
• Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Issues - Contribution

All grants from Employment and Social Development Canada

• Status of Women Canada

All grants from Status of Women Canada

• Women's Program

• Gender-Based Violence Program

• Women's Program
• Gender-Based Violence Program

• Women's Program

• Gender-Based Violence Program
• Women's Program

• Status of Women Canada

• Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Issues
• Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Issues - Contribution