Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Project
PLEAC has received funding from the Department of Justice for the Preventing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Project. This initiative will help connect PLEI (Public Legal Education Information) organizations across Canada to make workplaces harassment free by providing complainants of workplace sexual harassment with access to legal advice when dealing with workplace sexual harassment, and by increasing public awareness and knowledge about sexual harassment in the workplace.
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Native Courtworker & Counselling Association of British Columbia
- Website:
- https://www.nccabc.ca
- Email:
- darryl@nccabc.net
- Main Contact:
- Darryl Shackelly
- Telephone:
- 604-985-5355
This project will work to address workplace sexual harassment in industrial camps in British Columbia. The organization will work with key stakeholders to develop and adapt existing workplace sexual harassment resources and training to add an Indigenous lens and cultural competency component. These resources will be utilized in the context of educating and training employees working in the male-dominated industrial camps in BC and in Indigenous communities where these camps are located.
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PARTNERS Family Services
- Main Contact:
- Hayley Kennedy
- Telephone:
- 306-682-4135
The organization will work to build awareness and knowledge of sexual harassment in the hospitality industry in rural central Saskatchewan workplaces. Employers will gain a better understanding of their duties and how to create and maintain safe and healthy workplaces, and employees will gain knowledge on their rights, recourse options, and resources.
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Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission
- Website:
- http://www.peihumanrights.ca/
- Email:
- lkbird@peihumanrights.ca
- Main Contact:
- Laura K. Bird
- Telephone:
- 902-368-4703
Prince Edward Island Human Rights Commission will increase public awareness and knowledge on sexual harassment in the workplace and how to respond through the implementation of a public awareness campaign and education for employers and youth. Training will be developed and delivered to employers, who will be encouraged to assume a leadership role in creating and maintaining safe and inclusive workplaces, and will be designed to address prevention, identifying and investigating sexual harassment. Employers and employees will be informed through training and awareness campaigns of their obligations and responsibilities. Additionally, the organization will work with secondary schools to develop resources and education opportunities within schools to prepare them for entering the workforce.
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Pro Bono Ontario
- Website:
- https://www.probonoontario.org/
- Email:
- lynn@probonoontario.org
- Main Contact:
- Lynn Burns
- Telephone:
- 416-977-4448 x925
This project will enhance Pro Bono Ontario’s Hotline capacity to assist victims of workplace sexual harassment by; developing knowledge management resources to ensure that staff and volunteer lawyers provide high-quality legal services to victims of sexual harassment; by extending the hours of operation of the Hotline; by working with other funded organizations in Ontario to integrate services and develop intra-agency referral protocols and warm hand-offs and finally; by working in partnership with frontline service organizations to increase victim awareness of the Hotline.
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Public Legal Education and Information Service of New Brunswick
- Website:
- http://www.legal-info-legale.nb.ca/
- Email:
- Deborah.doherty@gnb.ca
- Main Contact:
- Deborah Doherty
- Telephone:
- 506-453-7958
Creating and maintaining safer work places for all individuals in New Brunswick is a priority of PLEIS-NB’s five-year public education project to prevent and address sexual harassment. We are working collaboratively with the New Brunswick Human Rights Commission (NBHRC). This Project recognizes the importance of identifying such intersectionality and addressing harassment in a holistic, collaborative and trauma-informed fashion. The first phase of this Project has been to conduct public consultations to better understand the barriers that vulnerable groups face and to incorporate their feedback and recommendations into the develop of training and resources that will be valuable for all employers and employees, as well as legal professionals.