Webpage: www.hoperesourcecentre.net
page: Hope Westlock Through collaborative partnerships supports, specific to identified client needs, this initiative will validate, believe, support, inspire and encourage women to value themselves, find confidence and power in moving beyond trauma with hope and strength as they rebuild their lives while holding the gift of their identity closely. This
project will include:
· FOCUS ON GENDER BASED VIOLENCE: Strengthen collaboration and coordinate an approach for preventing and addressing gender-based violence within the community.
· EMPHASIS ON PREVENTION: Take action to stop violence through early prevention resulting from informed responses through information sharing.
· EMBRACE DIVERSITY: Recognize how different structures and belief systems interact, considering the needs of diverse populations, including those most at-risk of being victimized.
· RESPECT SURVIVORS: Recognize survivors as experts on their own personal experience; including supporting survivor self-determination and respecting survivors' rights, privacy, and knowledge.
· BE EVIDENCE-BASED: Anchor efforts in the best available knowledge and evidence.
· VALUE PARTNERSHIPS: Commit to hearing from a diversity of voices, experiences and expertise; working collaboratively with strategic partners utilizing best practices to address and prevent gender-based violence.
· BROADEN THE LENS: With a trauma informed response supported by visible collaboration for the family violence population in our rural and remote community and outlying areas. Through these guiding principles, informed insights and perspectives, a unified strategy will bolster the work already being done within the community and bring us one step closer to ending gender-based violence. "The formal justice system is a good tool, but it is not the right tool for every situation. Diversion approaches out of the formal justice system can often create better results for all Albertans" Justice and Solicitor Business Plan 2018-21
