Community Grants - 2025-26
Round 1
We approved 72 grant applications for a total of $1,490,408.
7th Step Society of NS - 7th Step Troubled Youth Outreach
7th Step Society of NS - Peer-Support Workers and Programming for Criminalized Individuals
Adsum Association for Women & Children - PeerWorks Program
Aging Well Nova Scotia Association (Community Links Association) - Building Community Capacity: Addressing the Mental Health Needs of Older Nova Scotians
Aidaen Mae Fund - Help Keep Our Youth Alive
Anahata Integrative Sex & Relationship Therapy Inc. - Men Building Healthy Relationships
Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education - AVRCE GSA Health Summit
Annapolis Valley Regional Centre for Education - GuysWork Blitz at West Hants Schools
Arts Health Antigonish (AHA!) Society - Antigonish Comedy Club
Autism Nova Scotia - Pictou County Weekend Recreation and Respite
Berhan Cultural & Education Center (BCEC) - Ethiopian Parents & Youth Guide to Online Bullying and Mental Health
Brigadoon Children's Camp - Camp BELIEVE
Brunswick Street Mission - Breakfast Program - Social Work
Canadian Blk Women in Excellence Society - Thrive in Black
Canadian BLUE Wellness Association - Mental Health Through Mindful Movement Pilot Project
CMHA-NS Division - Learn to Live Life to the Full
CMHA -NS Division - Suicide Safer Communities with ASISTance
Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation - The Mental Health and Addictions Patient Care Fund
Cecilia Concerts Society - Sensory Accessible Concerts - Season 5
Chebucto Family Centre - Empowering Mothers through Wellness and Support
Chester Municipal Heritage Society - If I Knew Then
CNIB - CNIB’s Life After Vision Loss
Common Roots BiHi Park - Gather & Grow: “Sharing Experiences in Gardens and Life”
Common Roots Woodside - Growing Mental Health 2025
Coverdale Justice Society - Trauma Informed Justice Support Program
Cumberland Public Libraries - Staff Training to Serve our Most Vulnerable Populations
Direction 180, Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Society - MENding Minds
Diverse Roots Therapy - Gender - Affirming Care Clinic for Gender Marker & Name Changes
Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia - The Abundance Thrift Store
Esinam Counselling Inc. - Three-part series of group counselling
Evangeline Recreation Society - Berwick Community Mental Wellness Hub Initiative
Family SOS Association - Healthy Kidz and Healthy Teenz Afterschool Programs, Lunchbox Project
Find Your Voice Music Therapy - Trans-Formative Voices: Transgender and Non - Binary Youth and Adults Voice Therapy Program
Flourish 55+ Healthy Activity Society - Let's Talk Senior Suicide
Forging Forward Counselling Services - Forging Forward Brief Solution Focused (BSF) Counselling Program
Fountain of Health - The Art and Science of Aging Well for NS Seniors
Friends United - HEART (Healing Education Around Reconciling Together) to Heart Talk
Good Neighbour Builders Society - Yarmouth Good Neighbour Project
Halifax Sexual Health Centre - Collaborative SGRH Primary Care Social Work Support
Halifax Theatre for Young People - HTYP Youth Acts! Program for Queer & Trans Youth
Hope Blooms - Hope Blooms: Growing Together for Better Mental Health
Hope for Mental Health - One to One Peer Support for Individuals living with Psychotic Disorders
Hope for Mental Health - Anchored Families: Hope's One-to-One Peer Support for Families
Hope Project Addiction Recovery Services - "A Healing Reconnection with Arts, Animals, and Nature"
Hospice Halifax - Sustaining Grief and Bereavement Support through Individualized Counselling
Kids Help Phone - Increasing Mental Health Awareness in Service Deserts
Landing Strong Cooperative - Landing Strong - Community Connections - Phase 2
Landing Strong Cooperative - Landing Strong - Catching Those Who Fall: Equine Assisted Therapy
LOVE Nova Scotia - LOVE Weekly Programming & Free Flow Fridays
MacPhee Centre for Creative Learning Society - Portapique Arts & Wellness: A Sustainable Creative Path for Youth
Northwood Support Services: Seeds of Success Mental Health & Wellness Program - Roots of Resilience
Nova Scotia Brotherhood - Barbershop Talks and Reignite the Run/Walk
Prescott Group - Caregiver Community Connect
Rainbow Refugee Association of Nova Scotia - Rainbow Art Connections for 2SLGBTQIA+ Newcomers
Regional Independent Students Association - Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds
Riverview Home Volunteer Association - Activity Therapy to Improve Mental Health
Roots of Empathy - Breaking Intergenerational Cycles of Violence by Building Empathy
SchoolsPlus Windsor - "C₃”: Creating Community with Caregivers
Shoreham Village - Between The Mountains - Music Therapy
Société Mi - Carême - Entre, c'est débarré
Spencer House Seniors Centre - Art & Soul: Finding Mental Wellness by Creating Art Together
SSRCE - SchoolsPlus - Connecting Families: Concurrent Interventions for Intergenerational Trauma
Stepping Stone Association - Stepping Stone’s Holistic Addictions Program (HAP)
Strongest Families Institute - Parents Empowering Kids: Bilingual Support for Families
The African Nova Scotian (ANS) Hope Within Society - Renew and Thrive
The East Preston Day Care and Family Resource Centre - Empowering African Nova Scotian Adults: A Mental Health & Wellness Initiative
The Marguerite Centre - Beyond Trauma: Connecting mental health and healing
The Tema Foundation - Bridging Strength: Virtual Wellness for the Frontline
TREY - Trauma Recovery for Exploited Youth - Outreach Support Program
Unity Charity - The Source: Inclusion & Connectivity for ANS Youth
Venus Envy - Gender Journeys - Gender Journeys: Out and About
YWCA-Halifax - Mental Health Hour