YWCA Regina
Location: Regina, SK
Scope/Scale: Provincial
Type of Org: Charity / Non Profit
Scope of Work: Primary Prevention, Intervention, Crisis Support, Advocacy, Capacity Building
Populations Served: Individuals, Organizations
Organization Description: YWCA Regina empowers women, youth, and children to realize their full potential. Our programs offer members of our community opportunities to learn and grow safely, while providing hope for a brighter tomorrow. An investment in YWCA Regina’s programming is an investment in the future.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: Upstander in Schools is an 8-week leadership program for boys and gender-diverse youth in grades 6-8 to build knowledge and skills in topics of positive masculinity, emotional literacy, healthy relationships, and the issues impacting their lives. In this course, boys will learn how to feel more empowered in expressing their emotions and taking action against gender inequity.
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Location: Regina, SK
Scope/Scale: Provincial
Type of Org: Charity / Non Profit
Scope of Work: Primary Prevention, Intervention, Crisis Support, Advocacy, Capacity Building
Populations Served: Individuals, Organizations
Organization description: YWCA Regina empowers women, youth, and children to realize their full potential. Our programs offer members of our community opportunities to learn and grow safely, while providing hope for a brighter tomorrow. An investment in YWCA Regina’s programming is an investment in the future.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: Upstander in Schools is an 8-week leadership program for boys and gender-diverse youth in grades 6-8 to build knowledge and skills in topics of positive masculinity, emotional literacy, healthy relationships, and the issues impacting their lives. In this course, boys will learn how to feel more empowered in expressing their emotions and taking action against gender inequity.
Links / Resources: Website . LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter . Instagram
Changing Ways
Location: Camrose, AB
Scope/Scale: Local
Type of Org: Charity / Non Profit
Scope of Work: Early Intervention, Crisis Support
Populations Served: Individuals
Organization Description: Changing Ways help people of all ages understand family violence, heal their relationships and move forward. Here, you can find support groups and gain skills to improve relationships.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: Changing Ways coordinates the Camrose Family Violence Response Council and is involved in various local initiatives; Changing Ways are happy to meet with agencies and community groups to discuss family violence, including appropriate intervention and prevention.
Changing Ways offer Intimate partner violence education/counselling groups for adults who have experienced any form of abusive behaviour in relationships. They offer separate groups for those who identify as men and women. They also offer an 8-week educational group for adults who want to deal with chronic rage or anger unrelated to their intimate relationships.
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Location: Camrose, AB
Scope/Scale: Local
Type of Org: Charity / Non Profit
Scope of Work: Early Intervention, Response
Populations Served: Individuals
Organization description: We help people of all ages understand family violence, heal their relationships and move forward. Here, you can find support groups and gain skills to improve relationships.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: Changing Ways coordinates the Camrose Family Violence Response Council and is involved in various local initiatives; Changing Ways are happy to meet with agencies and community groups to discuss family violence, including appropriate intervention and prevention.
Changing Ways offer Intimate partner violence education/counselling groups for adults who have experienced any form of abusive behaviour in relationships. They offer separate groups for those who identify as men and women. They also offer an 8-week educational group for adults who want to deal with chronic rage or anger unrelated to their intimate relationships.
Links / Resources: Website . LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter . Instagram
Movember
Location: Toronto, ON
Scope/Scale: International
Type of Org: Charity / Non Profit
Scope of Work: Primary Prevention, Advocacy, Research
Populations Served: Individuals, Communities, Organizations, Local Government (Health Services)
Organization Description: Movember is the leading charity changing the face of men’s health by focussing on the areas of mental health & suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. Since 2003, Movember has funded more than 1,250 men’s health projects around the world, challenging the status quo, shaking up men’s health research and transforming the way health services reach and support men.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: Movember provide ongoing support, funding and advocacy for many grassroots initiatives in Canada and globally that promote positive masculinities, mental health and healthy relationships.
Links / Resources: Website . LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter . Instagram
Location: Toronto, ON
Scope/Scale: International
Type of Org: Charity / Non Profit
Scope of Work: Primary Prevention, Advocacy, Research
Populations Served: Individuals, Communities, Organizations, Local Government (Health Services)
Organization description: We are the leading charity changing the face of men’s health by focussing on the areas of mental health & suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer. Since 2003, Movember has funded more than 1,250 men’s health projects around the world, challenging the status quo, shaking up men’s health research and transforming the way health services reach and support men.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: Movember provide ongoing support, funding and advocacy for many grassroots initiatives in Canada and globally that promote positive masculinities, mental health and healthy relationships.
Links / Resources: Website . LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter . Instagram
White Ribbon
Location: International
Scope/Scale: International
Type of Org: Charity / Non Profit
Scope of Work: Advocacy, Primary Prevention, Research
Populations Served: Individuals, Communities, Organizations, Academic Institutions
Organization Description: White Ribbon is the world’s largest movement of men and boys working to end violence against women and girls, promote gender equity, healthy relationships and a new vision of masculinity.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: White Ribbon has engaged millions of people, brands, organisations and educators through the creative use of social and mobile tools that inspire men to speak out against gender-based violence. Since 1991, they have been helping workplaces and sectors develop policies, strategies, public education, individual accountability, campaigns and training to address a wide range of gender-based violence prevention issues. White Ribbon also greatly contribute to thought leadership through ongoing research in the engaging men and boys sector.
Links / Resources: Website . LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter . Instagram
Location: International
Scope/Scale: International
Type of Org: Charity / Non Profit
Scope of Work: Advocacy, Primary Prevention, Research
Populations Served: Individuals, Communities, Organizations, Academic Institutions
Organization description: White Ribbon is the world’s largest movement of men and boys working to end violence against women and girls, promote gender equity, healthy relationships and a new vision of masculinity.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: White Ribbon has engaged millions of people, brands, organisations and educators through the creative use of social and mobile tools that inspire men to speak out against gender-based violence. Since 1991, they have been helping workplaces and sectors develop policies, strategies, public education, individual accountability, campaigns and training to address a wide range of gender-based violence prevention issues. White Ribbon also greatly contribute to thought leadership through ongoing research in the engaging men and boys sector.
Links / Resources: Website . LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter . Instagram
SACE
Location: Edmonton, AB
Scope/Scale: Local
Type of Org: Non-Profit / Charity
Scope of Work: Advocacy, Crisis Support, Early Intervention, Primary Prevention, Knowledge Dissemination
Populations Served: Individuals, Organizations, Communities
Organization description: SACE provides an extensive range of support services for people who experience sexual violence, including: crisis support, counselling, court support, and advocacy. We also aim to foster prevention of sexual violence through direct public education and advisory consultation with groups and agencies undertaking their own prevention efforts.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: SACE provide counselling services for men healing from sexual violence, offers a men’s group (trans-inclusive) and serves male and masculine clients on an individual basis. Topics covered include masculinity, shame & anger and mental health.
To help our next generation of men and masculine folk learn more about positive masculinities, healthy relationships, consent and sexual health, SACE offer WiseGuyz, a gender-transformative healthy relationships program for mid-adolescent boys and masculine youth that aims to reduce sexual and dating violence, improve mental and sexual health, and decrease homophobic attitudes by creating a safer space to critically examine and deconstruct conventional masculine norms.
Links / Resources: Website . LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter . Instagram
Location: Edmonton, AB
Scope/Scale: Local
Type of Org: Non-Profit / Charity
Scope of Work: Advocacy, Crisis Support, Early Intervention, Primary Prevention, Knowledge Dissemination
Populations Served: Individuals, Organizations, Communities
Organization description: SACE provides an extensive range of support services for people who experience sexual violence, including: crisis support, counselling, court support, and advocacy. We also aim to foster prevention of sexual violence through direct public education and advisory consultation with groups and agencies undertaking their own prevention efforts.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: SACE provide counselling services for men healing from sexual violence, offers a men’s group (trans-inclusive) and serves male and masculine clients on an individual basis. Topics covered include masculinity, shame & anger and mental health.
To help our next generation of men and masculine folk learn more about positive masculinities, healthy relationships, consent and sexual health, SACE offer WiseGuyz, a gender-transformative healthy relationships program for mid-adolescent boys and masculine youth that aims to reduce sexual and dating violence, improve mental and sexual health, and decrease homophobic attitudes by creating a safer space to critically examine and deconstruct conventional masculine norms.
Links / Resources: Website . LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter . Instagram
ACWS
Location: Edmonton, AB
Scope/Scale: Provincial
Type of Org: Charity / Member Organization
Scope of Work: Research, Primary Prevention, Capacity Building, Advocacy, Policy & Systems Change
Populations Served: Organizations, Government, Practitioners, Academic Institutions, Communities
Organization Description: A registered charity, ACWS is the provincial network organization of domestic violence shelters in Alberta. They bring four decades of experience and knowledge to serve their members operating over 50 shelters across the province for women, their children, and seniors facing domestic abuse. We advocate for ACWS members and work with them to end domestic violence through culture-shifting violence prevention programs, collective data and research, and front-line training.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: Leading Change™ programming by ACWS has been used successfully in schools, sports teams, workplaces, and communities. ACWS facilitates in-person and online workshops for all ages, hosts violence prevention events (With the Guys, the Leading Change Summit) to share ideas, and offers the Leading Change Expansion Pack for FREE to help men better understand their role and opportunity to make the world a better place. ACWS also stewards the Men’s Attitudes Survey – a recurring survey of Albertan men aimed at better understanding trends in men’s attitudes toward and understanding of gender-based violence.
Links / Resources: Leading Change Program . Instagram . Facebook . LinkedIn
Location: Edmonton, AB
Scope/Scale: Provincial
Type of Org: Charity / Member Organization
Scope of Work: Research, Primary Prevention, Capacity Building, Advocacy, Policy & Systems Change
Populations Served: Organizations, Government, Practitioners, Academic Institutions, Communities
Organization Description: A registered charity, ACWS is the provincial network organization of domestic violence shelters in Alberta. They bring four decades of experience and knowledge to serve their members operating over 50 shelters across the province for women, their children, and seniors facing domestic abuse. We advocate for ACWS members and work with them to end domestic violence through culture-shifting violence prevention programs, collective data and research, and front-line training.
Engaging Men and Boys Work: Leading Change™ programming by ACWS has been used successfully in schools, sports teams, workplaces, and communities. ACWS facilitates in-person and online workshops for all ages, hosts violence prevention events (With the Guys, the Leading Change Summit) to share ideas, and offers the Leading Change Expansion Pack for FREE to help men better understand their role and opportunity to make the world a better place. ACWS also stewards the Men’s Attitudes Survey – a recurring survey of Albertan men aimed at better understanding trends in men’s attitudes toward and understanding of gender-based violence.
Links / Resources: Leading Change Program . Instagram . Facebook . LinkedIn