Prince Albert Métis Women's Association Inc.

Published purpose

This 29-month project will support a feminist response and recovery from the current impacts of COVID-19, through systemic change. Prince Albert Metis Women’s Assoc. Inc. will achieve this by identifying the barriers facing underrepresented women, girls 2SLGBGTQ+ and seniors in northern Saskatchewan and promote awareness campaigns to address those barriers. The project will partner with community groups as project advisors, and promotors. They will support human service organizations through action-based research and analysis that leads to improvements in organizational design, growth and governance. The organization will identify and build solutions to focus on creating reform, this will be measured and tracked by monitoring new policies and practices within supported organizations. At the end of the project, the organization will have contributed to addressing systemic barriers by advancing inclusive policies and practices, increasing networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, and supporting positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power to support women’s equality. The organization will partner with governmental agencies to share and disseminate resources and tools created through the project to support community organizations. Additionally, health providers, economic advocates and academics will contribute to measure the impact of changes in policy, practice and leadership and help to quantify success.