The Coalition Against Gender-Based Violence of Timmins and Area is a network of community agencies that are dedicated to providing education and awareness, and building effective working relationships with community partners in order to enhance the community’s capacity to respond to the needs of those affected by gender-based violence.
Values
Respect: The foundation of CAGBV’s values, goals, and actions involve the acknowledgement of every person’s and community’s right to safety, dignity and integrity. This value encompasses a stance of non-violence and openness to others’ ideas.
Empathy: The experience of understanding another person's thoughts, feelings, and condition from his or her point of view, rather than from one's own.
Commitment: Dedication to work collaboratively towards ending gender-based violence.
Diversity: We acknowledge the value of each individual without discrimination based on age, culture, race, religious belief, physical or intellectual ability, economic or social status, sexual orientation, etc. CAGBV members believe that by joining together we are enriched by our differences.
Equity: Valuing equity holds recognition that the same rules applied to everyone will not produce equal results because
of different circumstances, oppressions and social privileges, both in the present and from a historical context.
ANALYSIS THAT WE WORK FROM
Gender-Based Analysis (GBA): A Gender-Based Analysis is an analytical process used to assess how diverse groups of individuals may experience policies, programs and initiatives.
Intersectionality is the holistic view of how people experience different barriers and multiple forms of oppression or inequality which are often simultaneous and cannot be separated from experiences depending on many elements of their identities such as but not limited to race, religion, class, ability, age, immigration status, Indigenous status, sexuality, gender identity and self-expression. In addition to an understanding that discrimination and oppression are systemic and manifested within interpersonal relationships, institutional structures and operations, family relations and access to economic resources and the justice system.
Feminist intersectionality analyzes power and the ways in which systems, institutions, structures, socio-economic and political practices (historic and current) work together to create and reinforce conditions of inequality and disadvantage, and privilege and advantage based on social location and identity.
The goal of a gender-based intersectional analysis is to understand power relations and systems of power that create barriers to individual equality so we can remove those barriers and redistribute power equitably. To create social change, it is necessary to highlight the prevailing systems and structures that create and perpetuate barriers leading to marginalization and social exclusion.
*Some of the definition has been adapted from the definition from CRIAW-ICREF and CWF
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CAGBV Land Acknowledgement
The CAGBV recognizes that we are situated on Treaty 9 territory, which encompasses the traditional lands of the Ojibwe/Chippewa, Mushkegowuk (Cree), Algonquin, and Métis Peoples, as well as the territories of the Mattagami First Nation, Flying Post First Nation, and Matachewan First Nation.
We acknowledge that gender-based violence is deeply rooted in colonialism and white supremacy. Therefore, we accept our duty to actively strive for its elimination, not only for the well-being of future generations but also for the benefit of all individuals who now share these lands.
Aimée Lavoie
Pronouns: she/they, elle/iel
Coordinator | Coalition Against Gender Based Violence (CAGBV) of Timmins and Area
[email protected]
705-360-5657 x108 (w)
705-288-2220 (c)