Elizabeth Fry Toronto

Published purpose

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Elizabeth Fry Toronto will achieve this by holding consultations with key stakeholders, formalizing partnerships to establish a multi-sectoral network, facilitating peer leadership development and engagement from women with lived expertise, holding network meetings and one-on-one consultations, conducting developmental evaluations, and leading the dissemination of key learnings and recommendations. At the end of the project, Elizabeth Fry Toronto will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by increasing networks and collaborations to accelerate systemic change, and supporting the positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power to support women’s equality. This project will bring together a network of multi-sectoral partners, including diverse women peer leaders with lived expertise, to address gaps and barriers, implement strategies, and develop pathways to improve the economic security and prosperity for women who have been in conflict with the law, as part of an inclusive feminist recovery. This multi-sectoral network will include community-based employment service providers, city representatives, academic institutions, multi-sector employers, social entrepreneurs, and community-owned businesses.