national action plan<\/a> was launched in 2022 as a 10-year strategy involving federal, provincial and territorial governments.<\/p>\nThe new funding builds on an earlier federal investment of $539.3 million over five years that began in 2022-23.<\/p>\n
Ottawa says more than one million people accessed support services funded through the plan in 2024-25, while more than 27,400 prevention resources were delivered, including education, awareness and early intervention programs.<\/p>\n
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Crisis hotline funding renewed<\/p>\n
Valdez also announced $31 million over five years to renew federal funding for provincial and territorial crisis hotlines.<\/p>\n
Of that amount, $6.2 million will become ongoing annual funding.<\/p>\n
The government says the money will help hotline operators maintain and expand trauma-informed services for people experiencing gender-based violence.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery person deserves to live free from violence,\u201d Valdez said in a statement.<\/p>\n
She said renewing agreements with provinces and territories will help victims, survivors and their families continue accessing services.<\/p>\n
Governments cite growing concern<\/p>\n
The federal government says police-reported intimate partner violence increased by 14 per cent between 2018 and 2024.<\/p>\n
Women and girls accounted for 78 per cent of reported intimate partner violence victims in 2024.<\/p>\n
Ottawa also says 42 per cent of women killed in 2024 were killed by a spouse or partner, up from 32 per cent the previous year.<\/p>\n
The national action plan is being carried out in partnership with governments, Indigenous organizations, service providers, municipalities, researchers, advocates and people with lived experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The federal government is committing $607.4 million over four years to continue implementing Canada\u2019s National Action Plan to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":821815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[49,48,20739],"class_list":["post-821814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=821814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/821814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/821815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=821814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=821814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=821814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}