Collective Interchange Co-operative

Published purpose

This 30-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19 through systemic change. The Collective Interchange Co-operative will achieve this by engaging stakeholders, assessing the capacity of services and raise awareness on barriers immigrant women experience, designing and delivering a pilot project and, sharing knowledge and delivering professional development activities for community stakeholders. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, encouraging more equitable and effective sharing of resources, supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power and increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change to support women’s equality. The experience and knowledge of community partners, stakeholders and immigrant women will be utilized to connect and provide support to immigrant women facing challenges navigating the Canadian work environment. This initiative will help immigrant women make informed decisions while addressing economic and social systemic barriers with services and programs heightened by the COVID-19 pandemic.