2024-2025 First Round Community Grants

We approved 87 grant applications for a total of $1,818,851 in this round. 

1. 7th Step Society of Nova Scotia  - Peer-Support Workers and Programming for Criminalized Individuals

2. 7th Step Society of Nova Scotia - 7th Step Troubled Youth Outreach

3. Adsum Association for Women & Children - PeerWorks Program

4. Aidaen Mae Fund - Help Keep Our Youth Alive

5. Alcare Place - Food Educational Life Skill Program

6. Alice House - Strengthening and Sustaining Rebuilding Lives

7. ATeam Coaching - Black Girls Pillow Talk

8. Autism Nova Scotia - Weekend Recreation & Respite

9. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Halifax - Mental Health First Aid Training

10. Big Brothers Big Sisters of Pictou County - The Big Connection Program- group programming for youth

11. Bras d'Or Lakes Day Camps Association - Better Together-Intergenerational Pilot Project

12. Brigadoon Children's Camp Society - Camp BELIEVE

13. Camp Hope - A grassroots collective of RCMP Members & Community Partners - Camp Hope – A Retreat for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse

14. CMHA Halifax - Dartmouth Branch - Creative Arts Connects

15. CMHA, NS Division - Canso Peer to Peer Circle

16. CMHA, NS Division - South Shore Perinatal Mental Health Peer Support

17. CMHA, NS Division - Increasing Capacity for Suicide Alertness in Nova Scotia

18. CMHA, NS Division - Peer Support for caregivers of children and youth experiencing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)

19. Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation - The Mental Health and Addictions Patient Care Fund

20. Catherine Cooper - SchoolsPlus - Woodlawn B - Light Spectrum - Skills Development

21. Cecilia Concerts Society - Sensory-Accessible Concerts – Season Four

22. Chebucto Family Centre - Post Partum Doula Program

23. Colchester Sexual Assault Centre - Sexual Violence & Trauma Counselling Therapy Services

24. Couch of HOPE (Healing Opportunities for People Everywhere) - Couch of Hope In the Community- 3 Satellite Sites- 8 Month Project

25. Couch of HOPE (Healing Opportunities for People Everywhere) - Spring-Summer 2024 Couch of Hope

26. Coverdale Courtwork Society - Trauma-Informed Justice Support Program

27. Dartmouth Wellness Court (Aileen McGinty) - Peer Support - Dartmouth Wellness Court

28. Direction 180, Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre - MENding Minds

29. Easter Seals Nova Scotia - Disabilities and Healthy Mindfulness:  The Path to Holistic Wellbeing

30. Eating Disorders Nova Scotia - Everyone Deserves Help: Expanding Access to Nutrition Counselling

31. Eating Disorders Nova Scotia - Everyone Deserves Help: Expanding Access to Counselling

32. ElevateHER Mental Health Support Services Canada - Project Magnolia: A Holistic Community Youth Outreach Worker

33. Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia - The Abundance Thrift Store

34. Family SOS Association  Family SOS - Healthy Kidz and Teenz and Lunchbox Project 2024-2025

35. Farm To Feast Cafe Association - Feed Your Mind

36. Find Your Voice Music Therapy - Trans-Formative Voices: Transgender and Non-Binary Youth and Adults Voice Therapy Program

37. FireLoch Retreat and Gathering Place - Reducing Burnout for Community Caretakers

38. Flourish 55+ Healthy Activity Society - Senior Support & Health

39. Gender Journeys / Venus Envy - Gender Journeys

40. Halifax Lancers Society - First Responder Healing Through The Horses of Halifax

41. Halifax Sexual Health Centre - Collaborative SGRH Primary Care Social Work Support

42. Halifax Transition House Association - Addictions Support Counsellor

43. Hope Blooms - Alumni Youth Support Network

44. Hope for Mental Health - One-to-One Peer Support for individuals with psychotic disorders (Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective disorder, Psychosis) and Bipolar Disorder

45. Hope for Mental Health - One-to-One Peer Support for Families

46. Hospice Halifax Hospice - Halifax Bereavement Program

47. It Takes the Herd / Healing Through Horses Collaboration - Building Youth Resiliency through Horses - A Tri-County Initiative

48. Kids Help Phone - Feel Out Loud Community Creator Space

49. Kids Help Phone - Peer-to-Peer Community:  Playlist of Hope

50. Kids Help Phone - Improving Access to 24/7 Crisis Support

51. Kids Help Phone - Resources Around Me – Improving Supports for Nova Scotians with Disabilities

52. Landing Strong - From Surviving to Thriving – Isolation to Social Inclusion

53. Love: Leave Out Violence Nova Scotia Society - LOVE Weekly Programming & Free Flow Fridays

54. Lunenburg Pride - Pilot Project: Queer Connections

55. Maritime Play Therapy Centre - Tatamagouche Adolescent Groups

56. Mawita'mk - Family Reconciliation - Supporting descendants who have been affected by their parents, family and community’s experience at Residential Schools

57. Metroworks Employment Association - Common Roots Urban Farm BiHi Park - Nourishment in the Garden: Food, Connection and Wellness (Phase 2)

58. MetroWorks Employment Association - Common Roots Woodside - Celebrating 10 years of Growing Mental Health!

59. Mi'kmaq Circle of Hope Society - Hearing Our Voices

60. Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Society - Life Promotion & Cultural Revitalization Training Program

61. North End Community Health Centre - Outreach Strategy for Racialized Youth

62. North End Opportunities Fund - North End Opportunities (NEOF)

63. Nova Scotia Brotherhood - BarberShop Talks

64. NOVA SEVEN ARTS COUNCIL - ArtBeat Lounge in Support of Teen Mental Health

65. Old School Community Gathering Place - Moving Beyond Precarity: Mental Health Supports for Insufficiently Housed and Sheltered People

66. Pathways to Employment Society - PEER (Peer, engage, explore, reciprocity)

67. Quest-A Society for Adults - Proposal for Greenhouse Project at Quest Society: Enhancing Lives and Building Futures

68. Raising the Villages Cooperative - Hubs for Health

69. Roots of Empathy - Roots of Empathy Expansion in Northern Zone

70. Rusty Tractor Productions - TRANSLATIONS

71. Second Story Women's Centre - Outreach Support

72. Shoreham Village Senior Citizens Association - Between The Mountains- Music Therapy

73. Stepping Stone Association - Stepping Stone’s Holistic Addictions Program (HAP)

74. Strongest Families Institute - The 20th Decade

75. Survivors of Abuse Recovering (SOAR) - Peer Supporter Training and Train the Trainer for new Peer Support trainees 2025

76. Tatamagouche Centre - Healing Our Sexual Abuse Warriors Through Connecting to the Land, Elders, Culture and Ceremony

77. Tema Foundation - Peer Support Development Initiative

78. The Global Alliance for Brain & Heart Health - Care for the Caregivers: A Self-Care Wellness Program to Support Nurses and Mental Health Workers in NS

79. The Global Alliance for Brain & Heart Health - Spirit Strong Together – Youth Mental Health in this Age of Climate Anxiety, Diversity and Digital Addiction with Less Screen, More Green and the Mindful Tech Plan™

80. The John Howard Society Of Nova Scotia - Holistic Responses

81. The Laing House Association - Laing House Peer Support

82. The Marguerite Centre Society Of Nova Scotia - Expressive & Art Based Therapy for Addiction

83. The Nova Scotia Youth Project Society (Cape Breton) - Queerly Invested - Name Change Fund

84. Tri County Women’s Centre - Supporting Women with Mild to Moderate Mental Health Needs

85. Unity Charity - The Source: Inclusion and Connectivity for ANS Youth

86. Worth Living Mental Health - Chronic Pain Peer Support Group

87. YWCA Halifax - Mental Health Hour