Government Making Strides in Advancing Violence Prevention

Last week Minister Responsible for Women and Gender Equality Pam Parsons provided an update as the Provincial Government reaches the halfway point of its four-year agreement with the Government of Canada on the National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence.

This agreement has enabled the province to fund critical initiatives that are:

• Building community support networks, especially at the regional and or municipal levels.

• Supporting survivors, their families, and their communities by increasing awareness, education, and training.

• Investing in leadership development for women and gender-diverse people.

• Engaging men and boys in gender-based violence prevention.

• Building capacity to address the sexual exploitation of youth.

• Providing supports to promote the healing and mental well-being of those impacted by gender-based violence.

• Providing the development of legal information materials for violence survivors that are being translated to include both dialects of Innu-Aimun, Inuktitut, Arabic, Dari, and Ukrainian.

• Fostering collaboration with Indigenous communities and heightening public awareness about the imperative for reconciliation.

By March 31, 2025, over $6 million will have been distributed to community and Indigenous partners throughout the province.

In December 2023, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador announced a bilateral agreement with the Federal Government that is seeing an investment of nearly $13.6 million over four years to support provincially tailored, violence prevention initiatives.