Elizabeth Fry Toronto

Thank you to our wonderful volunteers for generously giving your support and time to the Elizabeth Fry community! 🎉

We loved celebrating with you over food, art and games 🧡

Your impact is felt everywhere, and it means everything!

This week, our Standing Strong Counsellors attended the annual Community of Practice: Addressing Youth Dating Violence. Led by PREVNet, the Community of Practice facilitates knowledge mobilization and connects various intervention research projects addressing Gender-Based Violence (GBV).

GBV is a preventable and significant barrier to gender equality. Not only does it have immediate impacts on physical and mental health of survivors, but lasting consequences for individuals, families, communities and society. GBV and incarceration are deeply connected. Survivors of violence are often criminalized for acts related to self-defense, coercion or survival. Programs like Standing Strong promote safety through support and education, not punishment.

Thank you you to the Public Health Agency of Canada for re-affirming its funding commitment to ending GBV, and to PREVNet for hosting!

For centuries, Indigenous communities across Turtle Island have protected knowledge, language, artistry, governance and connections to the land, while continuing to be leaders of movements for justice and community care🧡

This month we centre the voices of generations continuing to build, create and thrive.
The future is being built with Indigenous brilliance at it's centre ✨

Celebrate this Indigenous History Month by attending the 26th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival from June 2-7, 2026 (Tkaronto) and June 8-14, 2026 (online)! Celebrate Indigenous storytelling though film and more: https://imaginenative.org/festival/schedule/