DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society

Published purpose

This 29-month project will develop and implement a survivor-centred safety and empowerment planning framework called Roots of Safety to address the root causes of gender-based violence. DIVERSEcity will achieve this by engaging immigrant, refugee, ethnocultural, racialized women (IRER) gender-based violence (GBV) survivors to lead service providers in critical reflection on policy and practice, addressing discriminatory GBV prevention and response policies, and creating processes for ongoing collaboration. At the end of the project, the organization will have developed a promising practice to address persistent harmful gender norms and attitudes, increased networks and collaboration to accelerate systemic change, encourage more equitable, advance inclusive policies and practices, and effective sharing of resources, and support positive distribution of authority, voices, and decision-making power to support women’s equality. This project will result in a collaborative design of a web-based tool for IRER women survivor-led solutions for GBV prevention and response. Key partners for this project will include, BC Society of Transition Housing, Ending Violence BC, City of Surrey, Surrey-North Delta Division of Family Practices, and law enforcement agencies.