Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies

The Canadian Association of Elizabeth Fry Societies (CAEFS) works to address the persistent ways in which women and gender-diverse people impacted by criminalization are denied humanity and excluded from community. They offer the CAEFS Memorial Bursaries, an annual bursary that supports women and gender-diverse people in reaching their educational and employment goals, their research projects aim to understand and address the Over-incarceration of Indigenous women, and CAEFS is developing a rights-based housing strategy focused on building housing principles that better respond to the distinct needs of criminalized women.