Government announced funding for 16 Indigenous Violence Prevention Projects

Minister of Women and Gender Equality and Minister of Justice and Public Safety Helen Conway Ottenheimer has announced funding for 16 projects through the Province’s Indigenous Violence Prevention Grants Program.

Projects receiving a share of $361,848 include initiatives focused on:

• Increasing public awareness, education and training.

• Investing in leadership development.

• Building community capacity.

• Enhancing opportunities for healing.
  

The program supports Newfoundland and Labrador’s Indigenous Governments and Organizations in their efforts to prevent violence against Indigenous women, children and gender-diverse people.

The recipients are:

Assembly of First Nations Office of the Regional Chief Newfoundland (Conne River)

Funding will be used to conduct a virtual women’s gathering for survivors of gender-based violence.

Grant Awarded: $17,250

Benoit’s Cove Indian Band Inc.

Funding will be used to establish a community violence prevention team, develop culturally relevant education and outreach materials, establish a youth mentorship program, establish accessible, culturally relevant counselling services and develop a resource map for other services currently available from the Band office.

Grant Awarded: $24,400

Burgeo First Nation

Funding will be used to increase awareness surrounding missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls and Two-Spirit people through a series of community workshops, Red Dress Day ceremonies, community walk, and crafting workshops.

Grant Awarded: $4,750

Empowering Indigenous Women for Stronger Communities (Corner Brook)

Funding will be used to conduct a peer support program by bringing together 30 trained facilitators for a multi-day professional development gathering.

Grant Awarded: $23,000

Exploits Native Women’s Association (Bishop’s Falls)

Funding will be used for Rise Through the Noise, an online, anti-violence program that uses workshops, sharing circles and storytelling for youth to develop skills around digital safety and expression.

Grant Awarded: $21,000

First Light (St. John’s)

Funding will support out-of-province travel to a Two-Spirit symposium, as well as workshops to create Two-Spirit medicine bundles and other cultural items.

Grant Awarded: $16,100

Flat Bay Band Inc.

Funding will be used to finalize curriculum and media materials, train Mi’kmaw facilitators and conduct a pilot for a five-day trauma informed training initiative.

Grant Awarded: $30,000

Indigenous Cultural Revival Association (Gander)

Funding will be used to support a 24-week program of sharing circles and cultural crafting sessions to address gender-based violence. This program will also see the creation of an Indigenous social worker/Indigenous violence prevention navigator position.

Grant Awarded: $23,095

Innu Nation (Sheshatshiu)

Funding will be used to facilitate women’s walks and boys’ land-based activities, including a three-week ocean expedition for young adults to start conversations surrounding gender-based violence.

Grant Awarded: $30,000

Lnu’sgw (Grand Falls-Windsor)

Funding will be used to facilitate healing circles, violence prevention workshops, a youth mentorship program, and the creation of a cultural toolkit for the restoration of the traditional guardian role of men - to help reduce gender-based violence through community connection.

Grant Awarded: $30,000

Mi’kmaw Cultural Foundation (Stephenville)

Funding will be used for a youth initiative that will see language programs, land-based learning and elder-led teachings as a means of addressing inter-generational trauma, while also growing and strengthening community and cultural connections.

Grant Awarded: $30,000

Newfoundland Indigenous People’s Alliance (Port Saunders)

Funding will be used for a series of training and awareness gatherings, workshops and crafting activities to facilitate a comfortable space for discussions on violence prevention.

Grant Awarded: $15,000

NorPen Mekap’sk Mi’kmaq Band (Port Saunders)

Funding will be used for educational presentations and workshops, crafting activities, and the distribution of resource materials to facilitate a healing environment for those affected by gender-based violence.

Grant Awarded: $15,000

People of the Dawn Friendship Centre (Stephenville)

Funding will be used to support men in addressing the root causes of violence through gatherings, land-based activities, sharing circles, ceremonies and elder-youth mentorship pairings.

Grant Awarded: $28,750

Qalipu First Nation (Corner Brook)

Funding will be used to produce a series of promotional videos addressing gender-based violence.

Grant Awarded: $30,000

St. George’s Indian Band

Funding will be used to conduct a 15-week, inter-generational men and boys’ mentorship program and gathering/conference to address men’s mental health, modern masculinity and the root causes of violence.

Grant Awarded: $23,500