Funding Fredericton community orgs to help address gender-based violence

Fredericton – Gender-based violence costs women and gender-diverse people their lives. Those most at risk or who are underserved when experiencing gender-based violence are women living in rural and remote areas, Indigenous women, Black women, women with disabilities, racialized women, and gender non-binary and 2SLGBTQI+ people. Understanding and addressing gender-based violence against these groups is a crucial step towards achieving gender equality in Canada.

Marci Ien, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Youth, and Jenica Atwin, Member of Parliament for Fredericton, announced $908,384 for two organizations in Fredericton, New Brunswick. These organizations and their projects are as follows:

• Under One Sky Friendship Centre will receive $487,384 for their project Supporting Gender based Violence Through Capacity Building and Program Development, which will enable them to address the root causes of gender-based violence and ensure that Indigenous women and 2SLGBTQQIA+ people, and their communities, can prosper now and in the future.
• Partners for Youth will receive $421,000 for their project Youth Healthy Relationships in New Brunswick Indigenous Communities, which will empower and engage Indigenous youth to create an effective and culturally sensitive healthy teen relationships program in their communities – a promising practice to address gender-based violence.

These projects will continue the work required to address the root causes of gender-based violence and ensure that women and gender-diverse people can prosper now and in the future.

Today’s announcement builds on the historic launch of the National Action Plan to End Gender-based Violence by the Federal-Provincial-Territorial Ministers responsible for the Status of Women in November 2022. The National Action Plan includes five pillars: support for victims, survivors, and their families; prevention; a responsive justice system; implementing Indigenous-led approaches; and social infrastructure and an enabling environment. The National Action plan is complementary to and aligned with the 2021 Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People National Action Plan and the Federal Pathway to Address Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, Girls and 2SLGBTQQIA+ People.