Canadian Women's Foundation Annual Report 2023-2024 - Report - Page 25
Teen Healthy Relationship Programs
“Feedback from
students and
teachers was
phenomenal. They
reported that the
project was creating
healthier and safer
spaces within the
school.”
– Julia Forgrave, Executive Director,
Second Stage Safe Haven
The Centre for Sexuality’s From Me to We Program
facilitators (from left): Lily Dang, Darren Silva, and
Timothy Curtis.
Program Spotlight: From Me to
We Program, Centre for Sexuality,
Calgary, Alberta
This program offers a welcoming space
for gender non-conforming and nonbinary
young people to explore their identities and
connect with peers and facilitators from
the 2SLGBTQIA+ community. Participants
put healthy relationship skills, like assertive
communication and setting boundaries, into
practice, as well as discuss how to deal with
discrimination based on gender identity and
expression.
“We learned the sentence, ‘You did this and
it made me feel this way. Can you do this
instead?’ I was able to implement it the next
day. This really helps me assert myself when I
feel like I need to be heard.”
Program Spotlight: Healthy
Futures, Second Stage Safe
Haven, Saint John, New
Brunswick
About 4,000 Grade 8 students across
New Brunswick have gained the skills to
create healthy, equal relationships and
help break the cycle of gender-based
violence. And many more will learn these
skills in years to come. With multi-year
funding from the Foundation, Second
Stage Safe Haven worked with provincial
school districts and nurses to establish
The Fourth R teen healthy relationship
program as part of the middle school
curriculum. Second Stage trained about
200 teachers and guidance counsellors
to deliver the program in 80 anglophone
schools, with expansion coming to
francophone schools.
– Program participant, From Me to We
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