G.R.I.S.-- Montréal

Published purpose

Through this 34-month project, the Groupe de Recherche et d’Intervention Sociale de Montréal (GRIS-Montréal) will conduct community-based research to help improve gender-based violence (GBV) services for at-risk groups. The project will address GBV affecting youth who identify or are perceived as members of the sexually and gender-diverse community in Quebec secondary schools. To achieve this, the organization will seek the opinions of school staff working in places sexually and gender-diverse youth consider the least safe, as staff’s perspectives are generally overlooked in research on the subject. The purpose of this research is to document these school stakeholders’ views and intervention methods, and to provide areas for reflection and concrete actions to reduce GBV in schools. GRIS-Montréal will also disseminate the research findings within the scientific, educational, and sexually and gender-diverse communities. To do so, a dissemination strategy will be developed, and summaries of the research findings and other knowledge mobilization tools will be shared. With the supplemental funds and extension provided in early 2026, GRIS-Montréal will develop structural tools for knowledge mobilization and establish a committee of experts in ethical and scientific governance. Through this, they will further advance gender equality.