Montréal-Nord en santé

Published purpose

This 20-month project proposes to create and implement a multisectoral community of practice designed to address the deeper causes of gender-based violence. Montréal-Nord en santé will achieve this goal by examining socio-economic issues specifically affecting immigrant and racialized minority women and female adolescents victimized by intimate partner violence in Montréal-Nord. A literature review and needs assessment will be conducted with victims and neighbourhood organizations. The organization will publish a report containing recommendations that identify the issues uncovered and propose improved, culturally adapted services. Training modules on anti-oppression practices and intersectoral collaboration will be developed and delivered to institutional, community and private-sector partners represented on the Table de quartier de Montréal-Nord in an effort to enhance knowledge about intimate partner violence. Participants will have access to a digital platform offering resources and tools relevant to the training modules. The organization will rally key stakeholders to participate in a community of practice to discuss recommendations and actions for ensuring a range of services that reflect the cultural realities of immigrant and racialized minority women and female adolescents. The organization will develop an operationalization tool to support community of practice members in updating and monitoring internal policies and action plans in an effort to achieve lasting change. By the end of the project, Montréal-Nord en santé will have surveyed, trained and educated neighbourhood organizations about the importance of providing culturally adapted services to immigrant and racialized minority women and female adolescent victims of intimate partner violence. The community of practice will have strengthened the capacity of players from different Montréal-Nord communities to act cohesively by developing an intersectoral response and appropriate actions.