Power Into Action: Mobilizing Authority to End Violence Against Women and Girls

Introductory Note:

This is Part II of Upholding the Sacred: Exercising Inherent and Legislative Powers to End Gender-Based Violence, entitled Power Into Action: Mobilizing Authority to End Violence Against Women and Girls. 

This workshop can be completed as a continuation of Part I—forming a comprehensive 3-day, 13-segment program with four core topics and objectives per day—or taken later as a standalone, 1-day interactive workshop consisting of four key modules and objectives.

Objectives:

This segment of the workshop aims to assist community leaders and executives in moving from legislative theory to operational reality. Participants will learn to establish robust policies, rules, and procedures for responding to both unreported and reported incidents of violence. 

By embedding these response structures directly into the community framework, leaders and their executive teams can safely promote culturally grounded alternative measures designed to prevent and support survivors, restore healthy family units, and reinforce overall community cohesion, while maintaining complete data sovereignty in alignment with PIPEDA or OCAP® principles.

The practical objectives for this segment are the following: 

1. Operationalize Response Teams: Test and refine standard operating procedures (SOPs) through simulated real-world scenarios, establishing transparent triaging, escalation, and hand-off pathways between frontline responders, emergency services, and local leadership.

2. Implement Restorative Justice & Healing Pathways: Design and align community circles that center healing, accountability, and community cohesion, supported by mandatory risk-assessment checklists to ensure the continuous safety and protection of survivors.

3. Build Cross-Sector Collaboration: Draft multi-agency Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) between community governance structures, local police, child welfare agencies, and health providers to clarify legal and operational responsibilities and eliminate gaps during active crises.

4. Create a Sustainable Implementation Roadmap: Conduct resource mapping to identify internal capacity, funding streams, and specialized training needs, culminating in a concrete 30-60-90 day rollout plan for community ratification and public awareness.

Expected Outcomes:

This carefully crafted event provides leaders, executives and community members with a safe, impartial, and completely confidential forum in which to build engaging and effective tools for eradicating violence against women and girls. By incorporating jurisdictional reform, community-led enforcement, and data sovereignty, this workshop directly operationalizes self-determination to protect vulnerable community members.

Intended Public and Process:

Audience: All levels of Government, Tribal and First Nations Governments.

Language: This workshop is open to all communities in both English and French. If a community prefers to use an Indigenous or other native language, interpretation or translation services can be arranged.

Duration: 1 Day Work Session—Including breakout and interactive sessions.

Post-Session Consultation: Consultations are optional and at your discretion. 

Cost Overview:

Professional Facilitation Fee: $1,890 CAD per day.

Travel expenses: The ticket price does not include standard business travel, meals, and lodging expenses for the facilitator(s) during preparation and on-site delivery.

Cancellation Timeline and Fees:

30+ Days Notice: Full refund minus a $150 administration fee.

15 to 29 Days Notice: 50% refund, or a 75% credit toward a future workshop.

14 Days or Fewer Notice: Non-refundable. No credits will be issued.

Workshop Proposal: 

Forthcoming.

Sample Agenda: 

Forthcoming.