Liard Aboriginal Women's Society (LAWS): federal grants and contributions

This 60-month project will develop, implement and test a community-based and culturally-relevant advocacy model based on response-based practice to support, respond and restore dignity and safety of Indigenous GBV survivors in northern and remote Kaska communities in Yukon and Northern British Columbia. The organization will engage GBV survivor advocates to raise awareness on related issues in their communities and offer peer support and referrals to other GBV survivors in order to improve their access to appropriate response and support services.

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

This 22-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society (LAWS) will achieve this by recruiting and orienting advocates, collaboratively designing the Kaska Advocates leadership pilot, developing resources and protocol, increasing access to cultural services for victims, conducting a full cycle evaluation, facilitating peer supports for advocates, encouraging greater collaboration between organizations, and undertaking knowledge dissemination activities. At the end of the project, the

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

Through this 38-month project, Liard Aboriginal Women’s Society will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence against Indigenous women and girls. This will be achieved by implementing a wholistic approach, with violence prevention as a consideration, in reviewing their current strategic plan, developing a strategic plan for 2023-2028, updating their constitution and bylaws, developing and implementing a board onboarding protocol, creating a capacity development and succession plan, and developing policies and procedures that align with new worker’s compensation legisla

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

The Indigenous Gender and Wellness Development Grant funding opportunity is expected to: •Support planning activities that establish priorities for Indigenous-led research projects related to gender and wellness; •Facilitate relationship building, knowledge sharing and learning that develop and strengthen Indigenous-led, community-based projects; and •Support the continued development of ideas and plans to implement action-oriented, community-based projects that will improve wellness among Indigenous communities from a gendered perspective.

• Canadian Institutes of Health Research
• Research in Priority Areas

The development of a Project Implementation Plan to demonstrate the efficacy of a community-based, culturally-relevant advocacy model supporting the social justice needs of Aboriginal women and girls.

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

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

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• Research in Priority Areas

All grants from Canadian Institutes of Health Research

• Department for Women and Gender Equality

All grants from Status of Women Canada

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

• Women's Program

• Research in Priority Areas

• Gender-Based Violence Program
• Department for Women and Gender Equality