The Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts

Published purpose

Through this 37-month project, Association for Native Development in the Performing and Visual Arts (ANDPVA) will increase its ability to prevent and address gender-based violence (GBV) against Indigenous women, girls, or 2SLGBTQI+ people, with a focus on Indigenous 2SLGBTQQIA+ People living in a northern, remote, or rural area in the Toronto, Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg First Nation, and Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation areas. This will be achieved by conducting 1) research (including Artists, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, and Survivors for interviews and focus groups), 2) awareness campaigns (in collaboration with band councils, marketing team and Elder consultant), and 3) GBV training for ANDPVA team on trauma and the brain using a Medicine Wheel framework. By the end of the project, ANDPVA will have strengthened their capacity to prevent and address GBV against Indigenous women, girls, and 2SLGBTQI+ people, with a focus on Indigenous 2SLGBTQQIA+ People living in a northern, remote, or rural area.