Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic

Published purpose

This 31-month project will research, develop, and disseminate an evidence-based gender equity playbook and online platform to address the root causes of gender-based violence (GBV) and support survivors in the new post-COVID reality who are high-need, high-risk, or from harder-to-reach communities. The Barbra Schlifer Commemorative Clinic will achieve this by: conducting research with GBV-service organizations providing high-need case management supports in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), as well as trauma-informed research with survivors accessing high-need case management services; building a coalition of service organizations and other stakeholders supporting survivors from high-need, high-risk, and harder-to-reach communities; working with the coalition to develop a gender equity playbook and online platform to support survivors in the new post-COVID reality; and disseminating this knowledge through training workshops for service providing organizations. At the end of the project, the Schlifer Clinic will have developed promising practices that increased networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, supported positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power, advanced inclusive policies and practices, and encouraged a more equitable and effective sharing of resources, to support GBV survivors. This project will foster partnerships with GBV-service organizations, provincial networks, grassroots/community-based groups, and survivors with lived experience in the design, implementation, and evaluation of this promising practice. The evidence-based gender equity playbook and online platform will address the systemic barriers to gender equality experienced by survivors who are high-need, high-risk, or from harder-to-reach communities, and aid the GBV-service organizations that support them.