Ontario’s action plan to end gender-based violence: Investing in communities

Overview

As part of Ontario’s action plan to end gender-based violence, we are investing $98 million from 2024-25 to 2026-27 in 85 community-based projects across the province. These projects will focus on:

• building safer communities
• stopping gender-based violence before it happens
• helping survivors to recover and rebuild their lives

We held a public call for proposals, which is now closed. The selected projects help prevent violence and address the needs of local communities and populations in four key areas:

1. education and awareness
2. early intervention and prevention
3. community planning and service integration
4. economic security and financial independence

Review the application guidelines.

Funding recipients

• A to D
• E to M
• N to S
• T to Z

A to D

• Achēv

  Rise Together: Community Against Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

• AIDS Committee of Durham Region

  Safe Futures Initiative

• AJEFO (Association des juristes d'expression française de l'Ontario)

  Justice tailored to needs: Gender-based violence+

• Aura Freedom

  Changing Media Narratives for Primary Prevention of GBV in Ontario

• Banyan Community Services

  Better Together: Reduce Intimate Partner Violence through Individual Trauma Informed Care.

• Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic

  Resilient Together: Using the RISA Tool to Enhance Risk Assessment, Case Management, and Service Coordination to Prevent GBV across Ontario

• BGC Canada

  Respect2Connect: Healthy Relationships Programming in Ontario-based BGC Clubs

• Big Brothers Big Sisters of Peel York

  Empowerment Against Violence: A Youth Initiative

• BridgeNorth Women's Mentorship & Advocacy Services

  SAVVY Pathways

• CAMH

  Preventing Cycles of Violence: Addressing Gender-Based Violence and Mental Health in Integrated Youth Services

• Canadian Council of Muslim Women (CCMW)

  Muslim Women's Legal and Community Support Clinic

• Catholic Community Services of York Region (CCSYR)

  Pathway to Empowerment: BIPOC and Immigrant Women Entrepreneurship and Wellbeing Circle

• Catholic Family Services Peel-Dufferin

  Safe Centre of Peel Mississauga Expansion Project

• Centre de santé Communautaire Hamilton/Niagara

  ViRAJ-Ontario CSCHN: Program to prevent violence in romantic relationships among young people

• Centre Novas-CALACS Francophone de Prescott-Russell

  Improvement in prevention, awareness, and education programs on gender-based violence in the Prescott-Russell community, taking into account best practices.

• Chapleau Hornepayne Algoma District Women in Crisis (CHADWIC)

  Youth Empowerment Group

• Children's Aid Foundation of Ottawa

  Bridging Gaps in Child Welfare: A Collaborative Response to Gender-Based Violence

• Community Living Six Nations “Ronatahskats”

  Walking Together: Safe Relationships and Your Rights

• Crossroads Children's Mental Health Centre

  Gender-based Violence Treatment Project

• Digital Public Square

  GameChanger: Leveraging Gamification and Storytelling to Promote Active Bystandership Among Men and Boys in Ontario

E to M

• Elizabeth Fry Society of Toronto

  Critically Timed Financial Literacy Intervention for Survivor Economic Independence and Security-Just in Time

• Ernestine's Women's Shelter

  Addressing Gaps in the System: Early Intervention and Prevention of Gender-based violence in Rexdale and Beyond

• Girls Inc. Limestone

  Bold Action for Safety & Economic Prosperity

• Glanbrook Community Services

  Caring Connections

• Go Thrive Go Inc.

  AI-driven platform with a chatbot, AI-based assessment tools, and resources to support prevention, early intervention, and recovery for survivors of gender-based violence

• Groupe Impact ON

  Reinventing the future: Financial independence and entrepreneurship

• Halton Women’s Place (HWP)

  Halton’s Haven to Home Program

• Hiatus House

  A Hub Without Walls: Ending Gender-Based Violence in Windsor-Essex

• Immigrant Women Services Ottawa

  From Survivor to Thriver: Empowering Immigrant and Racialized Women through Mentorship and Economic Independence

• Interval House of Hamilton

  Coaching Boys into Men

• John Howard Society of Kingston and District

  Respect Rewired: Empowering Youth for Healthy Relationships

• John Howard Society of London and District

  Safe Targeted Options for the Prevention of Violence Program (STOP)

• John Howard Society of Windsor-Essex

  Supportive Approach to Finding Empowerment (S.A.F.E.)

• Keepers of the Circle

  Strengthening Indigenous-Informed Services to Prevent and Address GBV in Northeastern Ontario through Pathways to Safety

• Kenora Chiefs Advisory - Ogimaawabiitong

  Healing Connections: An Early Intervention/Prevention Program to End Gender-Based Violence in Treaty 3

• Lac Seul First Nation

  Bii-Wasaya: The Coming of the Dawn

• Maison Interlude House Inc.

  Transition Interlude

• Matawa First Nations Management

  Matawa Hub for Education, Awareness and Prevention of Indigenous Gender-Based Violence

• Midaynta Community Services

  EmpowerMENt

• Moose Hide Campaign

  Walking Together: Empowering Communities Against Gender-Based Violence

• Mosaique interculturelle

  Voices of Nonviolence

• Mushkegowuk Council

  Mushkegowuk Council GBV Project

N to S

• Native Child and Family Services of Toronto

  Delivering Holistic and Culturally-based Family Violence Prevention and Healing Supports for Indigenous Community in GTA

• Nigig Nibi Ki-win Gamik Society

  Nigig Nibi Ki-win Gamik Society: Promoting Wholistic Wellness

• Nokiiwin Tribal Council Inc.

  Ending Gender-Based Violence through Community Healing

• Nova Vita Domestic Violence Prevention Services

  EPIC Action for Engaging Men and Youth to Reduce Gender-Based Violence

• Oasis Centre des femmes Inc.

  His fight, my fight – men allied and committed to the fight against GBV

• 211 Ontario Services

  Ontario Men’s Helpline

• Ontario Brain Injury Association

  Life After Impact: Rebuilding Lives after Gender-Based Violence and Concussion

• Ontario Native Women's Association

  Breaking Free from Family Violence: Parenting Across the Lifecycle Program

• Oxford County Community Health Centre (OCCHC)

  Oxford Sexual Assault Services (OSAS)

• Pembroke Regional Hospital

  Gender-Based Violence Prevention Through Employment and Financial Empowerment for Youth, Women and LGBTQIA2S+ living in Renfrew County

• Possibility Seeds Inc.

  High School Too: Preventing and Addressing Gender-Based Violence in Ontario Secondary Schools

• Public Services Health & Safety Association

  Building an innovative toolkit to prevent gender-based violence and harassment for Ontario’s public services sector

• Scadding Court Community Centre

  Skills to Thrive

• Seven Generations Education Institute

  Azhemiinigoziwin (Regaining Strength) Program

• Sexual Assault Centre of Brant (SAC Brant)

  Taylor the Turtle: My Body Belongs to Me

• Sex Information & Education Council of Canada (SIECCAN)

  The Prevention of Technology-Facilitated Sexual Violence: Increasing the Capacity of Ontario Health Educators to Deliver Effective Education to Youth

• Sioux Lookout First Nations Health Authority

  Warriors of Change: Transforming Men, Strengthening Communities

• Six Nations Polytechnic (SNP)

  SNP Skilled Trades EmpowerED

• St. Joseph's Health Care London

  Implementation and Evaluation of a Community-Based Trauma and Violence - Specialized Primary Care Clinic

• Strides Toronto

  Responsive Outreach Community Support (ROCKS) Program

T to Z

• The Centre (Sexual Assault Survivors' Centre Sarnia-Lambton)

  Strengthening Community Coordination to Reduce the Risk of Femicide in Sarnia Lambton

• The Jean Tweed Centre

  Hope & Recovery: Healing from Gender-Based Violence and Substance Use

• The Robbie Dean Centre

  Project Resilience: Standing Against Gender-Based Violence

• Thunder Bay Counselling

  Economic Safety and Supports for Gender-Based Violence

• Toronto Metropolitan University

  SafeSay: Empowering Anonymous Gender-Based Violence Disclosures for Enhanced Resource Access in Ontario Post-Secondary Institutions

• Up With Women / Exponenti’elles

  Expansion into Northern Ontario

• Victim Services Haldimand Norfolk Mississaugas of the Credit

  AI Integration Project: Scalable, Inclusive GBV Prevention for Youth

• Victim Services of Leeds and Grenville

  IPV/GBV Mobile Rural Community Hub

• Victim Services of Peel

  Trafficked Persons Footpath to Freedom

• Victim Services Toronto

  FIFA Gender-Based Violence Campaign

• Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care

  MHAV-HEARTS: Mental Health Anti-Violence Hub for Empowerment, Advocacy, Recovery, and Trauma Support

• Western University

  Expanding the iHEAL Program: A proven and inclusive pathway for improving the safety, health and well-being of women experiencing IPV in rural and urban contexts

• Willowbridge Community Services

  Safe Relationships and Your Rights

• Women In Crisis (Algoma) Inc.

  Wraparound Support Centre

• Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital

  Enhancing care for sex trafficked persons: Education, awareness, community planning, and service integration

• Women's Resources of Kawartha Lakes

  Empowerment Against Exploitation

• Yellow Brick House

  Pathway to Recovery: Family Healing & Preventing Violence

• Yorktown Family Services

  Assist: an online, multi-sector, interdisciplinary early intervention integrated care model that will help reduce the impact of gender-based violence in Southern Ontario

• Youth Assisting Youth

  Youth Empowerment Against Gender-Based Violence

• Youth Association for Academics, Athletics, and Character Education

  Reducing Gender-Based Violence through a Public Health Approach in the Jane and Finch Community

• YWCA Hamilton

  THE SAFE HUB: Supports & Action For Empowerment of GBV Survivors & Those At-Risk

• YWCA Muskoka

  Girlz Unplugged Muskoka

• YWCA St. Thomas-Elgin

  From Financial Violence to Financial Empowerment