Preventing and Addressing Family Violence Investment
About the investment
The Public Health Agency of Canada's Preventing and Addressing Family Violence: The Health Perspective Investment is a national grants and contributions program focused on preventing and reducing the health impacts of family violence.
Projects currently funded through this investment are delivering and evaluating health promotion programs and interventions that:
- prevent family violence
- improve health outcomes for survivors of family violence
Funded projects reach children, youth, older adults and families affected by violence. The projects help to build the evidence-base of effective interventions in this field.
From 2015 to 2020, this investment was called Supporting the Health of Survivors of Family Violence. Get more information about previously funded projects.
Get more information about family violence, including the serious and lasting impacts of family violence on a person's physical and mental health.
LGBTQ Psychology Canada is a partner on the following project:
- We Are Family: Challenging the Roots of 2SLGBTQQIA+ Family Rejection & Violence via Early Parent Intervention on Femmephobia
Trent University is developing and evaluating an interactive curriculum on femmephobia that will be included in existing parent support/intervention programs, as well as in an online workbook and module for parents/caregivers.
The project will reach up to 600 parents, caregivers, healthcare professionals, and educators both online and in-person at Peterborough – Oshawa – Belleville region locations in Ontario. The overall aim of the project is to promote healthy environments for 2SLGBTQQIA+ children and youth by reducing the associated prejudices and harms created by femmephobia within families and communities.
The Public Health Agency of Canada is contributing $403,741 over 3 years (2023 to 2025) to support this project.