Canadian Women's Foundation Annual Report 2023-2024 - Report - Page 43
Your generosity helps us bring
the Signal For Help to influential
sectors to shift the culture around
abuse from one of stigma and
silence to one of support for
survivors.
Hot Docs Festival: The Canadian Women’s
Foundation invited storytellers to a panel on
gender-based violence at the 2024 Hot Docs
festival. Panelists included:
Sarain Fox
Anishinaabe artist, activist,
documentary filmmaker,
and director of Inendi
TikTok Canada Creators: We invited
digital creators to join a virtual knowledge
exchange about challenging issues like
gender-based violence. Some of the
participating creators included (from left):
Gabriel Paquette, @angelgabriel.html;
Kairyn Potts, @ohkairyn; Marie-Emanuelle
and Florence Olivia Genesse, @the.
sisofficial; Fallon Farinacci, @fallonfarinacci)
Writers’ Kit:
We’re reaching out to writers with a kit to
help them write about gender-based violence
in a way that centres survivors.
Nana aba Duncan
Journalist, podcaster,
professor, and co-founder
of Media Girlfriends
Signal for Help at Work:
We partnered with companies across sectors
like banking, retail, and healthcare to offer
bilingual training and tools to help them
support employees who have experienced
abuse.
Shiori Ito
Documentary filmmaker,
journalist, director of
Black Box Diaries, and
author of Black Box
Signal for Help in Communities:
We worked with organizations like nonprofits, post-secondary institutions, and
public services to provide helpful bilingual
tools to share. For example, Signal for Help
materials were shared and discussed as part
of an event at University of Windsor to raise
awareness about gender-based violence.
Farzana Doctor
Writer, activist, and
psychotherapist
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