Let the Truth Talk is a podcast series by the Harmony Project based out of the YWCA in Banff, Alberta. The Harmony Project brings together local service providers working towards ending sexual violence in our the Bow Valley. Through our collaborative and...
Building the Field of Teen Healthy Relationships is a unique national collective action initiative bringing together young people, community programs, academics, policy-makers, and funders to share successes and challenges, as well as to discuss the future of teen...
Now Serving: Safer Bars and Spaces Training Program has been providing hospitality spaces with gender-based violence prevention and response education since 2017. Now Serving is a program created by the Dandelion Initiative, a small grassroots organization that...
Wiindo Debwe Mosewin (“walking together in truth”) patrol is made up of caring volunteers and friends dedicated to imagining and creating a feminist and decolonized form of community safety together in Thunder Bay. We formed to raise up the voices of the...
The United Nations has called on all countries to have a National Action Plan on Violence Against Women (VAW) by 2015. Currently, Canada has no comprehensive national plan or strategy to deal with violence against women. This campaign is a renewed call from the...
The conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic were ones that were widely recognized by advocates as likely to increase the risk of violence while at the same time making it more difficult for those experiencing violence to seek help – especially given the...
This working group is made up of academic from public health, international relations, public policy, and development economics who focus on better understanding and addressing the gendered effects of COVID-19 and government responses to the outbreak. The project is...
The Thunder Bay Coalition to End Human Trafficking is a cross-sectoral partnership of law enforcement, health, education and social service providers. The Coalition works collaboratively to address the issue of human trafficking and to streamline supports for...
LEAF is a national charitable organization that works towards ensuring the law guarantees substantive equality for all women and envisions the realization of substantive equality for all women in Canada. The organization focuses on litigation, law reform, and public...
This campaign takes place the third week of October and is an annual week-long series of community events promoting diverse approaches to creating a violence-free world. YWCA Canada supports events that promote diverse approaches to eliminating gender-based...
