YWCA NWT: federal grants and contributions

P006095

• Public Health Agency of Canada
• Community Action for Prenatal and Child Health Program (CAPCHP)

The project will test up to three different solutions of providing safe homes in three smaller, remote communities in the Northwest Territories that currently do not have a safe space to go for women who are experiencing violence. The supplemental funds and extension will be used to collect data for the evaluation and explore avenues to sustain the sites after the end of the project.

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

This 46-month project will address organizational capacity needs to allow the organization to continue promoting social and systemic change towards gender equality in the Northwest Territories. Key activities to increase the organization’s capacity include: development and implementation of a territorial advocacy strategy, increased training, and creation of advocacy evaluation framework and advocacy coordinator.

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

Not Available

• Public Health Agency of Canada
• Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention

Not a Project (Mandated or Core Funding)

• Indigenous Services Canada
• Primary Care

Victims and Survivors of Crime Week will take place from May 11 to May 17, 2025. 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
• Northwest Territories

A six-month community initiative bringing RCMP officers and vulnerable community members together through informal, coffee-based sessions to foster open dialogue in safe, accessible environments. Funding is used to provide refreshments, and the development of informational materials tied to Project Lip Chap – a complementary initiative that distributes discreet lip balm containers containing critical resource information for victims of domestic violence.

• Royal Canadian Mounted Police
• Grant to Promote Law Enforcement through Crime Prevention, Training and Public Relations

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

All grants from Women and Gender Equality Canada

• Community Action for Prenatal and Child Health Program (CAPCHP)
• Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention

All grants from Public Health Agency of Canada

• Primary Care

All grants from Indigenous Services Canada

• Victims Fund

All grants from Department of Justice Canada

• Grant to Promote Law Enforcement through Crime Prevention, Training and Public Relations

All grants from Royal Canadian Mounted Police

• Community Action for Prenatal and Child Health Program (CAPCHP)
• Grant to Promote Law Enforcement through Crime Prevention, Training and Public Relations

• Victims Fund

• Primary Care

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

• Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention