Shape Your Life

This is a project serving the needs of women and trans-gendered people that are survivors of violence.  Working in partnership with Jessie’s Centre for Teenagers, Brock University and the Toronto Newsgirls Boxing Club and funded by the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General Victim Services Division, the project aims to increase the self-confidence of survivors through the sport of boxing.
The project is free for participants and childcare, ttc and snacks are available.
Please contact Jen or Joanne at OFA for more information.

Lone Mothers Trillium Project

This project is designed to explore the many causes of women’s exclusion from their communities. This is a research project in parthership with Wilfred Laurier University and funded by the Trillium Foundation. We hope through this research to be able to bring about systemic change leading to an increase in women’s ability to participate in their communities.
Please contact Anne or Joanne at OFA for more information.

Pelham Park/Symington Women Supporting Women

This project works with women living in social housing in the Pelham Park/Symington area of Toronto. The project focuses on assisting women in accessing community resources, developing community development strategies that are designed by the women themselves, strengthening techniques of raising sexually healthy kids.
Please contact Lynette at OFA for more information.

Photovoice

Photovoice is a unique process that combines photography with social action. The project goal is to put cameras in the hands of people with the least access to those who make the policy decisions affecting their lives. Through photography, individuals select their own images of their communities that they believe best represents the issues with which they are confronted facilitating their ability to represent and enhance their own participation in their communities. Through presenting images of their own experiences in their communities, people give voice to their own lives and can act as catalysts for social change.
For more information please contact Joanne at OFA