This three-year project is funded by Women and Gender Equality (WAGE) Canada’s Women’s Program and will promote economic security for women experiencing violence, who are in a precarious economic situation. The project’s main objectives are:

• To increase private-sector leadership and investment by helping to increase women’s economic security and by increasing opportunities for women who have experienced domestic violence to access sustainable employment and increase their self-esteem.
• To increase private sector business/employer awareness of the issue/need and of the barriers involved when women try to make the transition from situations of domestic violence to gaining economic security.

The main activities of this project are to develop new workplace (HR) policies and practices based on the needs of women experiencing domestic violence and employers in the region, to raise employer awareness on the barriers faced by these women and on their existing responsibilities, as well as offering women victims of domestic violence self-esteem workshops.