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SPOTLIGHT
Featuring Work From Our Network Partners
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STOPS Network Exchange
A Monthly Live Forum Series
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Open-to-all and cost-free, the Network Exchange is a monthly online forum featuring two partners of the STOPS to Violence Network. The series promotes learning and information sharing about initiatives and resources that contribute to addressing interpersonal and gender-based violence in Saskatchewan.
Join us on Oct 18 to hear from Kia Schollar of SaskSport and Dwayne Yasinowski of Caring Hearts.
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Get Involved with SVPW 2022
Violence Prevention - It Starts With You
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SVPW: Oct 24 to Oct 28, 2022 |
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Want to play a part in generating momentum leading up to SVPW2022?
Echo Social Media:
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Promote the upcoming SVPW on your social media with this text: “Saskatchewan Violence Prevention Week starts on Monday, October 24. Join us! #ItStartsWithYou to build safer communities. #SVPW2022"
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Share posts from STOPS to Violence Facebook & Twitter.
- Change your Facebook/Twitter Cover photo to announce the week.
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Use the Social Media Toolkit to help draft social media content, find it here: www.stopstoviolence.com/svpw.
Host an Event:
- Plan an event or activity in your community, business, school or organization and promote it by using #SVPW2022.
- Send it into STOPS and for promotion on STOPS website and social media channels.
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Looking for ideas? Click here.
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PATHS' Conference
Regrouping & Recharging: Gathering to Create Sustainable Change
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Join together at PATHS' upcoming conference, Regrouping & Recharging: Gathering to Create Sustainable Change, on 19- 20 Oct, 2022 in Regina.
The conference is open to the public. Expected attendees will include PATHS member agencies (domestic violence shelters and services) as well as community partners, policymakers, police, researchers, students, activists, survivors, and more.
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Education Day and Gala
Caring Hearts
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Caring Hearts will be launching the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls toolkit on October 20, 2022 whilst holding an in person Education Day and a Gala. The toolkit contains information, and knowledge from both the “western approach” and the “traditional approach” as to how best help families of Missing persons.
Knowledge sharers include - Duane Bowers, Elder Harry Frances, and Elder Lorna Standingready.
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Seeking Safety from Interpersonal Violence
Flat Rate Monthly Housing Benefit
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The Saskatchewan Housing Benefit - Seeking Safety from Interpersonal Violence (Seeking Safety) Stream provides a simple flat-rate monthly benefit to help individuals fleeing interpersonal violence cover their rent and utility costs.
The Saskatchewan Housing Benefit (SHB) is delivered by Saskatchewan Housing Corporation (SHC) and co-funded by the Government of Canada and Government of Saskatchewan under the National Housing Strategy.
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Gender-Based Violence: It’s Not Just
Online Resource
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Gender-based violence is a serious issue that affects everyone in Canada — but especially young women.
This is a handy online resource by Women and Gender Equality Canada with info and tips on Gender-based violence in Canada.
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Statistics Canada's new Quality of Life Statistics Program provides important information on quality of life in Canada for all, bringing together key economic, social and environmental datasets.
The purpose of the Quality of Life Hub is to provide information on the quality of life and well-being of Canadians in one centralized, trusted location.
If you have ideas or thoughts for what you'd like to see on the Hub, Statistics Canada would love to hear about it.
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Leading & Learning with Pride
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This toolkit created by City of Toronto Seniors Services and Long-Term Care (SSLTC) Division was created as a resource to support the creation of a system in which long-term care and seniors services address the needs of all seniors and advance respectful, inclusive and affirming care for 2SLGBTQI+ Seniors. |
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Oct 12, 2022 - Held Virtually
October 12, 2022 - Held Virtually
October 13, 2022 - In Person (Saskatoon)
Oct 13, 2022 - Held Virtually
Oct 14 - In person (Tisdale)
LEVERAGE Conference
Oct 17, 2022 - Held Virtually
Oct 18, 2022 - Held Virtually
Oct 20, 2022 - Held Virtually
Oct 19-20, 2022 - In Person (Regina)
Oct 20, 2022 - In Person
Oct 24- 28, 2022
Oct 27 - Held Virtually (15min)
Oct 27, 2022 – Held Virtually
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NOVEMBER:
Nov 1, 2022 - Held Virtually
Nov 8-10, 2022 - Held Virtually
Nov 2, 2022 - Held Virtually
Nov16 & 17, 2022 - Held Virtually
Nov 28-29, 2022 Held Virtually & In Person (Saskatoon)
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Enabling Accessibility Fund
Deadline to submit application:
November 1, 2022
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Through the Government of Canada’s 2022 Call for Proposals (CFP) under the Enabling Accessibility Fund (EAF) could receive funding for the retrofit, renovation or new construction of accessible facilities or venues.
This year, the EAF Small projects component has put a priority on the funding of projects related to shelters for those experiencing violence and gender-based violence, Indigenous organizations, Early Learning and Child Care centres, and workplaces.
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National Housing Strategy Longitudinal Outcomes Research Grant
Deadline to submit application:
November 22, 2022
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This is a partnership grant being offered by Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and Canadian Mortgage and Housing Corporation (CMHC).
Research areas can include housing provision, the built environment, the ecosystem and climate change. This grant is for multi-disciplinary research teams to examine areas holistically, using gender-based analysis plus (GBA+) analytical lens. CMHC welcomes Indigenous research proposals.
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MMIWG families bring demands for police accountability to Parliament Hill, CBC News, October 2022
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OTC celebrates first ever Treaty boundary sign installed on Saskatchewan highway, Blog, OTC.
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'Boggles the mind': PM Trudeau, MPs condemn Hockey Canada for resisting calls to change, CTV News, October 2022
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Saskatchewan Towards Offering Partnership
Solutions to Violence
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Living, working and writing to you from Treaty 4 territory, the traditional lands of First Nations people and homeland to the Métis. We are committed to moving forward in a respectful way in the spirit of reconciliation.
STOPS to Violence staff
Tracy, Nofa, Jodi and Karishma
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