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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Waypoints Opportunities for Change Program

Location: Fort McMurray, AB

Scope/Scale: Provincial

Type of Org: Non-Profit

Scope of Work: Intervention, Crisis Support

Populations Served: Individuals

Organization Description: Waypoints provide services for individuals affected by family violence

Engaging Men and Boys Work: Way Points' Opportunities for Change program works with those who have previously been perpetrators of domestic violence. The Opportunities for Change program aims to prevent further incidents of violence and abuse through support and education.

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Location: Fort McMurray, AB

Scope/Scale: Provincial

Type of Org: Non-Profit

Scope of Work: Intervention, Crisis Support

Populations Served: Individuals

Organization description: Waypoints provide services for individuals affected by family violence.

Engaging Men and Boys Work: Waypoints' Opportunities for Change program works with those who have previously been perpetrators of domestic violence. The Opportunities for Change program aims to prevent further incidents of violence and abuse through support and education.

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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.

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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.

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Shift: The project to end domestic violence, University of Calgary

Location: Calgary, AB

Scope/Scale: Provincial, National, International

Type of Org: Action Research / Academic

Scope of Work: Research, Primary Prevention, Knowledge Integration, Capacity Building, Policy & Systems Change

Populations Served: Human Service Organizations, Networks and Coalitions, All Orders of Government, International Governing Bodies, Researchers and Academic Institutions, NGOs, Communities and Civil Society

Engaging Men and Boys Work: The focus of Shift’s work is to design, test and scale approaches that nurture and support men and boys to become allies, partners, violence disrupters and co-beneficiaries in the movement to stop gender-based violence. Their focus is in four areas:

  1. Changing the policy environment to support equity, inclusion, and violence prevention.

  2. Partnering with community leaders, systems and organizations to engage and mobilize men and boys in their violence prevention strategies.

  3. Building a workforce to engage and mobilize men and boys.

  4. Provide strategic support, research, facilitation, training and capacity building to advance equity, inclusion, safety and violence prevention.

Links / Resources: Website

Location: Calgary, AB

Scope/Scale: Provincial, National, International

Type of Org: Action Research / Academic

Scope of Work: Research, Primary Prevention, Knowledge Integration, Capacity Building, Policy & Systems Change

Populations Served: Human Service Organizations, Networks and Coalitions, All Orders of Government, International Governing Bodies, Researchers and Academic Institutions, NGOs, Communities and Civil Society

Engaging Men and Boys Work: The focus of Shift’s work is to design, test and scale approaches that nurture and support men and boys to become allies, partners, violence disrupters and co-beneficiaries in the movement to stop gender-based violence. Their focus is in four areas:

  1. Changing the policy environment to support equity, inclusion, and violence prevention.

  2. Partnering with community leaders, systems and organizations to engage and mobilize men and boys in their violence prevention strategies.

  3. Building a workforce to engage and mobilize men and boys.

  4. Provide strategic support, research, facilitation, training and capacity building to advance equity, inclusion, safety and violence prevention.

Links / Resources: Website

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Sagesse

Location: Calgary, AB

Scope/Scale: Provincial

Type of Org: Non-Profit

Scope of Work: Early Intervention, Primary Prevention, Capacity Building

Populations Served: Individuals, Organizations, Communities

Organization Description: Sagesse empowers individuals, organizations and communities to disrupt structures of domestic abuse through curating environments for people to develop skills and lead safe, healthy lives. They work each day to support individuals impacted by abuse, while also challenging norms and advocating for large-scale societal change that will eradicate abuse in Alberta. At the heart of their programming is a commitment to innovation in all facets of the organization.

Engaging Men and Boys Work: Through their program, Men's Real Talk, Sagesse host important discussions about how men both experience or use domestic abuse and provide a place for men to find hope as we navigate accountability and support, together as informal supports in our communities.

Links / Resources: Website . LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter . Instagram

Location: Calgary, AB

Scope/Scale: Provincial

Type of Org: Non-Profit

Scope of Work: Early Intervention, Primary Prevention, Capacity Building

Populations Served: Individuals, Organizations, Communities

Organization description: Sagesse empowers individuals, organizations and communities to disrupt structures of domestic abuse through curating environments for people to develop skills and lead safe, healthy lives. They work each day to support individuals impacted by abuse, while also challenging norms and advocating for large-scale societal change that will eradicate abuse in Alberta. At the heart of their programming is a commitment to innovation in all facets of the organization.

Engaging Men and Boys Work: Through their program, Men's Real Talk, Sagesse host important discussions about how men both experience or use domestic abuse and provide a place for men to find hope as we navigate accountability and support, together as informal supports in our communities.

Links / Resources: Website . LinkedIn . Facebook . Twitter . Instagram

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