October 15, 2025 - September 30, 2026
With funding from the Mental Health Foundation of NS, the “You Matter” project provides trauma-informed, culturally responsive mental-health and wellness supports for service providers in Nova Scotia’s GBV sector, addressing burnout, trauma, and isolation through facilitated spaces for connection, healing, and resilience.
April 2, 2024 - November 1, 2025
This project is funded by the NS Status of Women Office to follow up on the IWD Summit in March of 2024 where over 150 people with a stake in preventing and ending gender-based violence (GBV) across sectors in Nova Scotia explored moving forward in some new, innovative ways. Since then, several working groups have developed on specific topics identified as priorities in the intersection of GBV prevention and response.
January 2023 - March 2024
The “PIC” project will explore the feasibility of establishing a Gender-based Violence (GBV) Innovation Lab in Nova Scotia with multi-sector partners across traditional silos, to serve as an infrastructure to mobilize emergent research and lived expertise of diverse populations; compel collaborative learning and collective evidence-based advocacy and impact; and to activate innovative solutions aimed at the root causes of GBV for systems level change in institutional structures, culture and social narrative.
April 2021 - April 2024
The No Longer on My Own (NOLOMO) project is a research project designed to understand the access to justice barriers and challenges facing survivors of family violence within the justice system in Nova Scotia. Be the Peace Institute is part of the project team and advisory committee.
April 2020 - January 2023
Racism expressed as structural and cultural violence, negatively impacts health. Race is a social determinant of health and the pandemic has triggered dramatic increases in family violence in many countries throughout the globe. This project explores in what ways health and social systems can better respond to family violence within African Nova Scotian communities and how to develop innovative principles to guide policy and service delivery.
April 2019 - April 2024
This four-year project will grow our influence on gender equity and addressing gendered violence in our communities. By improving our advocacy, we hope to take new steps to ensure our ongoing financial viability and bring new analysis to complex issues and to make a difference for women and survivors.
