This National Toolkit is for im/migrant and refugee-serving sector staff and volunteers across Canada working with racialized im/migrant and refugee women, girls, and gender-diverse people with disabilities and D/deaf people. Since the first point of contact for racialized im/migrant people experiencing gender-based violence (GBV) is often an im/migrant-serving organization, rather than a GBV-specific service. This toolkit aims to enhance the knowledge and capacity of frontline service workers to support im/migrants and D/deaf people experiencing violence.

Therefore, the im/migrant-serving sector must understand the history of exclusion that people with disabilities and D/deaf people have and continue to face in Canada and how that exclusion is increased for racialized im/migrant peoples.