SUPPORTING WOMEN'S ALTERNATIVES NETWORK (SWAN VANCOUVER) SOCIETY: federal grants and contributions

Through this 34-month systemic change project, SWAN Vancouver will help enhance im∕migrant sex workers’ economic security and prosperity through advancing systemic change. Specifically, the project will work to dismantle systemic barriers within the healthcare sector in Metro Vancouver by addressing high-barrier and discriminatory policies and practices within healthcare settings, as well as addressing gaps of knowledge of healthcare professionals and policymakers in regulatory bodies. An external evaluator will measure and assess the impact of this systemic change project. Supplemental funds

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

This 49-month project with Supporting Women's Alternative Network (SWAN Vancouver) Society will develop and implement prevention, response services, and promising intervention practices to advance knowledge and enhance empowerment supports for im/migrant sex workers who experience systemic vulnerability to human trafficking. This will be achieved by providing trafficking prevention and response services, filling the gap in province-wide services, educating provincial partners on the realities, reducing barriers to service among provincial organizations, informing im/migrant sex workers of pro

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

This 58-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: development and implementation of a strategic plan, which will encompass organizational financial health and sustainability as well as advocacy strategy. The first supplemental funds will be used to build the organization's human resources management capacity to address performance management and staff mental health enhancement needs. The second supplement

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery to adress the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Supporting Women's Alternatives Network (SWAN Vancouver) Society will achieve this by thorough consultation with immigrant and migrant sex workers, community-based agencies, and media consultants to identify and analyze examples of problematic reporting. SWAN Vancouver will develop surveys and produce results to feed into the creation of a media kit and guidelines for journalists. They will identify trainee media outlets and specific journalists to raise awar

• Women and Gender Equality Canada
• Women's Program

The project will respond to gaps in services by offering legal information, referrals, and online and in-person language and culturally specific community support services to immigrant and migrant women. Through delivery of the project, women will have at their disposal tools to recognize, report and/or exit exploitive situations and access justice should human trafficking, sexual exploitation or violence occur.

• Department of Justice Canada
• Community Adjustment Fund (Community Adjustment Fund (CER))

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from November 22 to November 28, 2020. 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.

• Department of Justice Canada
• Victims Fund
• Vancouver Centre

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 15 to May 21, 2022. 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.

• Department of Justice Canada
• Victims Fund
• Vancouver Centre

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 12 to May 18, 2024. 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.

• Department of Justice Canada
• Victims Fund
• Vancouver Centre

• Women's Program
• Gender-Based Violence Program

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• Community Adjustment Fund (Community Adjustment Fund (CER))
• Victims Fund
• Regional Strategic Initiatives Program / Community Economic Diversification Initiative - Vitality (RSI (CEDI-V))

All grants from Department of Justice Canada

• The Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention program promotes the health and well-being of Canadians of all ages by supporting community-based projects which address the root causes of health inequalities, and the common risk and protective factors

All grants from Public Health Agency of Canada

• Victims Fund

• Women's Program
• Victims Fund

• Victims Fund

• Victims Fund
• The Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention program promotes the health and well-being of Canadians of all ages by supporting community-based projects which address the root causes of health inequalities, and the common risk and protective factors

• Gender-Based Violence Program
• Women's Program

• Victims Fund

• Women's Program

• Regional Strategic Initiatives Program / Community Economic Diversification Initiative - Vitality (RSI (CEDI-V))

• Community Adjustment Fund (Community Adjustment Fund (CER))