Punjabi Community Health Services Calgary Society

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Through this 30-month project, Punjabi Community Health Services Calgary Society will scale a promising practice of Gender-Based Violence counseling program to spread awareness and strengthen the GBV sector. The organization will scale the program to South-Asian girls aged between 12 and 18. It will address intersectional factors such as religion, gender, racism, culture, and oppression that affects South-Asian youth experiencing GBV at home and/or in their communities. To do so, the project will develop a curriculum for individual and group GBV counseling programs on how to build resiliency, seek support systems, form boundaries, and cope with trauma while learning about empathy. The organization will reach out to South-Asian participants from various settings such as schools, cultural and religious centers. Punjabi Community Health Services Calgary Society will create a written final report and information presentation to share their findings on the promising practice with schools, religious temples, and youth-focused cultural centers so that they may replicate it or expand upon it.