2024-2025 Community Grants

We approved 71 grant applications for a total of $1,420,522 in Round 2 (awarded in October 2024)

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

2.       7th Step Society of NS - 7th Step Troubled Youth Outreach

3.       Alcare Place - Exercise, Healthy Living and Mental Wellness

4.       Arisaig Parish Community Centre - Seniors Fall/Winter Yoga Program

5.       Beacon House Interfaith Society - Mental Health Counsellor for Beacon House Shelter

6.       BGC Cape Breton - Building Resilience: Empowering Youth Mental Health

7.       Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Halifax - Project A.C.T.I.V.A.T.E

8.       Boys & Girls Club of Preston - Empowering African Nova Scotian Youth: A Mental Health & Wellness Initiative

9.       Brunswick Street Mission - Brunswick Street Café

10.    Canadian Mental Health Association, NS Division  - Co-developing culturally relevant and responsive mental health education with the Muslim community of Nova Scotia

11.    Canadian Mental Health Association, NS Division  - Peer Support Group Incubation: Newcomer Mental Health

12.    Canadian Mental Health Association, NS Division  - Peer Support Group Incubation: Women's Empowerment Squad

13.    Couch of Hope - Providing Clinical Training to Counselling Therapist Interns

14.    Couch of Hope - Providing Free Counselling Services

15.    Cumberland Homelessness and Housing Support Association - Building Together - Creating best practices for Mental Health and Addiction support in Supportive Housing Organizations

16.    Dalhousie Social Work Community Clinic - Creative Conversations

17.    Dartmouth Adult Services Centre - Mental Health is for Everyone

18.    Direction 180, Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre - ROUTE (Relationships, Opportunities, United Together for Empowerment)

19.    Direction 180, Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre - Blooming Minds

20.    Dr. Lee-Baggley and Associates Inc. - Building Inclusive Shelters: ACT training for Substance Abuse, Harm Reduction, and Burnout Prevention

21.    Eating Disorders Nova Scotia - Everyone Deserves Access: Counselling Program

22.    Eating Disorders Nova Scotia - Everyone Deserves Help: Increasing Access to Nutritional Counselling

23.    Find Your Voice Music Therapy - Music Therapy for Healthy Aging with Nova Scotia Seniors in Isolation

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

25.    Fountain of Health - Thrive with Self-Compassion: Sharing the Science of Wellbeing with NS Older Adults

26.    Front Street Community Oven - Re-Imagining Community Mental Health

27.    Gambling Risk Informed Nova Scotia Society - Transforming the Perception of Gambling in Nova Scotia

28.    GEO Nova Scotia - e-Mental Health Pocket Guide: Connecting Nova Scotians to Digital Mental Health Resources

29.    Halifax Refugee Clinic - The C.A.R.E Kit Project

30.    Headstart Child & Family Therapy - Haven Community Counselling

31.    Health Arts Society of Atlantic Canada - Concerts in Care New Spaces – Phase Two

32.    Healthy Minds Cooperative - Mental Health Peer Support in the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community

33.    Healthy Muslim Families - Empowering Muslim Women's Mental Health

34.    HeART Mental Wellness Art Programming For Youth - heART Eats

35.    Heat Theatre Society - Heat Theatre's production of "The Heart of Things"

36.    Hepatitis Outreach Society of NS - True Project

37.    Hope Blooms Youth Social Entrepreneurial Ventures Inc - Music for Mental Health

38.    Hope for Mental Health - Families Matter in Mental Health

39.    Hope for Mental Health - Biology and Management of Trauma and Depression

40.    Hope Project Addiction Recovery Services Co-operative Limited - HOPE for mind, body and soul

41.    Kings County Family Resource Centre - Suicide intervention certification for KCFRC team and surrounding community & participants

42.    Landing Strong - Landing Strong First Responder Homelessness Prevention Program - Nova Scotia

43.    NCNM 277 INC – In-home Medication Support

44.    No Time for That (NTFT) Anti-Bullying Society - Nova Scotia NTFT Tour with DeeDee Austin

45.    North End Community Health Centre - Mental Health & Wellness Services for Supported Housing Tenants

46.    Northwood Bedford - Northwood Bedford Campus

47.    Nova Scotia Health Authority, Valley Mental Health Day Hospital - Rural Recreation

48.    Nova Scotia Sisterhood - Nova Scotia Sisterhood Salon Talks

49.    Old School Community Gathering Place - Musqui Café After Hours

50.    Our Health Centre - Thrive Tuesdays: Mental Health Clinic

51.    Out of the Cold Community Association - Counseling and Peer Support at Out of The Cold

52.    Pictou County Roots For Youth - Foundation For Success: Youth Programming Space

53.    Ray of Hope Retreat - 13th Annual Ray of Hope Retreat

54.    Red Spruce Mental Health Centre - Red Spruce Mental Health Centre

55.    Sackville High School - SHS Ambassadors for Mental Health

56.    Saint Mary's University - Black and Indigenous Wellness at Saint Mary's

57.    Sexual Health Nova Scotia - The Transformation Closet

58.    SIMPLY GOOD FORM INC. -  Gender Identity Affirmation Clinics and Barrier-free Name Change Program

59.    Smart Recovery Foundation - Smart Recovery for Women

60.    South Shore Fieldhouse Society - Recreation and Social Program for Mature Adults

61.    Strongest Families Institute - The 20th Decade - Phase 2

62.    The John Howard Society of NS - Holistic Responses

63.    The Marguerite Centre - Holistic Healing Treatment Programming

64.    The Salvation Army Encounter Community Church - The Salvation Army - Emergency Counselling Support Pilot Project

65.    The Youth Project - Club Thirteen: Queering Harm Reduction

66.    Ummah Society/AMRC - In Terms I Understand: Mental Health Awareness for NS Marginalized Communities

67.    Valley Community Learning Association - Mental Wellness in Support of Successful Employment (MWiSE) for Youth and Persons with Disabilities

68.    Worth Living Mental Health - Queer & Neurodivergent Peer Support Group

69.    Yarmouth County Senior Safety - 55+ Wellness Day

70.    YMCA of Cape Breton - Y Mind Program

71.    YMCA of Greater Halifax/Dartmouth - Y Mind at the YMCA of Greater Halifax/Dartmouth

We approved 87 grant applications for a total of $1,818,851 in Round 1 (awarded in April 2024)

  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