2024-25 Grants

Community Grants | First Round

We approved 87 grant applications for a total of $1.81M in this round of funding.

  • 7th Step Society of Nova Scotia — Peer-Support Workers and Programming for Criminalized Individuals
  • 7th Step Society of Nova Scotia — 7th Step Troubled Youth Outreach
  • Adsum Association for Women & Children — PeerWorks Program
  • Aidaen Mae Fund — Help Keep Our Youth Alive
  • Aileen McGinty on behalf of Dartmouth Wellness Court — Peer Support – Dartmouth Wellness Court
  • Alcare Place — Food Educational Life Skill Program
  • Alice House — Strengthening and Sustaining Rebuilding Lives
  • ATeam Coaching — Black Girls Pillow Talk
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Halifax — Mental Health First Aid Training
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Pictou County — The Big Connection Program- group programming for youth 14-18
  • Bras d’Or Lakes Day Camps Association — Better Together-Intergenerational Pilot Project
  • Brigadoon Children’s Camp Society — Camp BELIEVE
  • Camp Hope – A grassroots collective of RCMP Members & Community Partners — Camp Hope – A Retreat for Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
  • Canadian Mental Health Association Halifax – Dartmouth Branch — Creative Arts Connects
  • Canadian Mental Health Association, NS Division — Canso Peer to Peer Circle
  • Canadian Mental Health Association, NS Division — South Shore Perinatal Mental Health Peer Support
  • Canadian Mental Health Association, NS Division — Increasing Capacity for Suicide Alertness in Nova Scotia
  • Canadian Mental Health Association, NS Division — Peer Support for caregivers of children and youth experiencing obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD)
  • Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation — The Mental Health and Addictions Patient Care Fund
  • Catherine Cooper – SchoolsPlus – Woodlawn B — Light Spectrum – Skills Development
  • Cecilia Concerts Society — Sensory-Accessible Concerts – Season Four
  • Chebucto Family Centre — Post Partum Doula Program
  • Colchester Sexual Assault Centre — Sexual Violence & Trauma Counselling Therapy Services
  • Couch of Hope (Healing Opportunities for People Everywhere) — Spring 2024-Summer 2024 Couch of Hope In the Community- 3 Satellite Sites- 8 Month Project
  • Couch of Hope (Healing Opportunities for People Everywhere) — Spring April 2024-Summer September 2024 Couch of Hope
  • Coverdale Courtwork Society — Trauma-Informed Justice Support Program
  • Direction 180, Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre — MENding Minds
  • Easter Seals Nova Scotia — Disabilities and Healthy Mindfulness: The Path to Holistic Wellbeing
  • Eating Disorders Nova Scotia — Everyone Deserves Help: Expanding Access to Nutrition Counselling
  • Eating Disorders Nova Scotia — Everyone Deserves Help: Expanding Access to Counselling
  • ElevateHER Mental Health Support Services Canada — Project Magnolia: A Holistic Community Youth Outreach Worker
  • Elizabeth Fry Society of Mainland Nova Scotia — The Abundance Thrift Store
  • Family SOS Association — Family SOS – Healthy Kidz and Teenz and Lunchbox Project 2024-2025
  • Farm To Feast Cafe Association — Feed Your Mind
  • Find Your Voice Music Therapy — Trans-Formative Voices: Transgender and Non-Binary Youth and Adults Voice Therapy Program
  • FireLoch Retreat and Gathering Place — Reducing Burnout for Community Caretakers
  • Flourish 55+ Healthy Activity Society — Senior Support & Health
  • Gender Journeys / Venus Envy — Gender Journeys
  • Halifax Lancers Society — First Responder Healing Through The Horses of Halifax
  • Halifax Sexual Health Centre — Collaborative SGRH Primary Care Social Work Support
  • Halifax Transition House Association — Addictions Support Counsellor
  • Hope Blooms — Youth Social Entrepreneurial Ventures Inc Alumni Youth Support Network
  • Hope for Mental Health — One-to-One Peer Support for individuals with psychotic disorders (Schizophrenia, Schizoaffective disorder, Psychosis) and Bipolar Disorder
  • Hope for Mental Health — One-to-One Peer Support for Families
  • Hospice Halifax — Hospice Halifax Bereavement Program
  • It Takes the Herd / Healing Through Hooves Collaboration — Building Youth Resiliency through Horses – A Tri-County Initiative
  • Kids Help Phone — Feel Out Loud Community Creator Space
  • Kids Help Phone — Peer-to-Peer Community: Playlist of Hope
  • Kids Help Phone — Improving Access to 24/7 Crisis Support
  • Kids Help Phone — Resources Around Me – Improving Supports for Nova Scotians with Disabilities
  • Landing Strong — From Surviving to Thriving – Isolation to Social Inclusion
  • Love: Leave Out Violence Nova Scotia Society — LOVE Weekly Programming & Free Flow Fridays
  • Lunenburg Pride — Pilot Project: Queer Connections
  • Maritime Play Therapy Centre — Budget for Tatamagouche adolescent groups
  • Mawita’mk — Family Reconciliation – Supporting descendants who have been affected by their parents, family and community’s experience at Residential Schools
  • Metroworks Employment Association – Common Roots Urban Farm BiHi Park — Nourishment in the Garden: Food, Connection and Wellness (Phase 2)
  • MetroWorks Employment Association – Common Roots Woodside — Celebrating 10 years of Growing Mental Health!
  • Mi’kmaq Circle of Hope Society — Hearing Our Voices
  • Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Society — Life Promotion & Cultural Revitalization Training Program
  • North End Community Health Centre — Outreach Strategy for Racialized Youth
  • North End Opportunities Fund — North End Opportunities (NEOF)
  • Nova Scotia Brotherhood — BarberShop Talks
  • NOVA SEVEN ARTS COUNCIL — ArtBeat Lounge in Support of Teen Mental Health
  • Old School Community Gathering Place — Moving Beyond Precarity: Mental Health Supports for Insufficiently Housed and Sheltered People
  • PAC Autism Nova Scotia Society — Weekend Recreation & Respite (Weekend Rec & Respite)
  • Pathways to Employment Society — PEER (Peer, engage, explore, reciprocity)
  • Quest-A Society for Adults — Proposal for Greenhouse Project at Quest Society: Enhancing Lives and Building Futures
  • Raising the Villages Cooperative — Hubs for Health
  • Roots of Empathy — Roots of Empathy Expansion in Northern Zone
  • Rusty Tractor Productions — TRANSLATIONS
  • Second Story Women’s Centre — Outreach Support
  • Shoreham Village Senior Citizens Association — Between The Mountains- Music Therapy
  • Stepping Stone Association — Stepping Stone’s Holistic Addictions Program (HAP)
  • Strongest Families Institute — The 20th Decade
  • Survivors of Abuse Recovering (SOAR) — Peer Supporter Training and Train the Trainer for new Peer Support trainees 2025
  • Tatamagouche Centre — Healing Our Sexual Abuse Warriors Through Connecting to the Land, Elders, Culture and Ceremony
  • Tema Foundation — Peer Support Development Initiative
  • 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
  • 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™
  • The John Howard Society Of Nova Scotia — Holistic Responses
  • The Laing House Association — Laing House Peer Support
  • The Marguerite Centre Society Of Nova Scotia — Expressive & Art Based Therapy for Addiction
  • The Nova Scotia Youth Project Society (Cape Breton) — Queerly Invested – Name Change Fund
  • Tri County Women’s Centre — Supporting Women with Mild to Moderate Mental Health Needs
  • Unity Charity — The Source: Inclusion and Connectivity for ANS Youth
  • Worth Living Mental Health — Chronic Pain Peer Support Group
  • YWCA Halifax — Mental Health Hour

Community Grants | Second Round

We approved 71 grant applications for a total of $1.42M in this round of funding.

  • 7th Step Society of NS — Peer-Support Workers and Programming for Criminalized Individuals
  • 7th Step Society of NS — 7th Step Troubled Youth Outreach
  • Alcare Place — Exercise, Healthy Living and Mental Wellness
  • Arisaig Parish Community Centre — Seniors Fall/Winter Yoga Program
  • Beacon House Interfaith Society — Mental Health Counsellor for Beacon House Shelter
  • BGC Cape Breton — Building Resilience: Empowering Youth Mental Health
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Halifax — Project A.C.T.I.V.A.T.E
  • Boys & Girls Club of Preston — Empowering African Nova Scotian Youth: A Mental Health & Wellness Initiative
  • Brunswick Street Mission — Brunswick Street Café
  • Canadian Mental Health Association, NS Division — Co-developing culturally relevant and responsive mental health education with the Muslim community of Nova Scotia
  • Canadian Mental Health Association, NS Division — Peer Support Group Incubation: Newcomer Mental Health
  • Canadian Mental Health Association, NS Division — Peer Support Group Incubation: Women’s Empowerment Squad
  • Couch of Hope — Couch of Hope -Providing Clinical Training to Counselling Therapist Interns
  • Couch of Hope — Couch of Hope -Providing Free Counselling Services
  • Cumberland Homelessness and Housing Support Association — Building Together – Creating best practices for Mental Health and Addiction support in Supportive Housing Organizations
  • Dalhousie Social Work Community Clinic — Creative Conversations
  • Dartmouth Adult Services Centre — Mental Health is for Everyone
  • Direction 180, Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre — ROUTE (Relationships, Opportunities, United Together for Empowerment)
  • Direction 180, Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre — Blooming Minds
  • Dr. Lee-Baggley and Associates Inc. — Building Inclusive Shelters: ACT training for Substance Abuse, Harm Reduction, and Burnout Prevention
  • Eating Disorders Nova Scotia — Everyone Deserves Access: Counselling Program
  • Eating Disorders Nova Scotia — Everyone Deserves Help: Increasing Access to Nutritional Counselling
  • Find Your Voice Music Therapy — Music Therapy for Healthy Aging with Nova Scotia Seniors in Isolation
  • Find Your Voice Music Therapy — Trans-Formative Voices: Transgender and Non-Binary Youth and Adults Voice Therapy Program
  • Fountain of Health — Thrive with Self-Compassion: Sharing the Science of Wellbeing with NS Older Adults
  • Front Street Community Oven — Re-Imagining Community Mental Health
  • Gambling Risk Informed Nova Scotia Society — Transforming the Perception of Gambling in Nova Scotia
  • GEO Nova Scotia — e-Mental Health Pocket Guide: Connecting Nova Scotians to Digital Mental Health Resources
  • Halifax Refugee Clinic — The C.A.R.E Kit Project
  • Headstart Child & Family Therapy — Haven Community Counselling
  • Health Arts Society of Atlantic Canada — Concerts in Care New Spaces – Phase Two
  • Healthy Minds Cooperative — Mental Health Peer Support in the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community
  • Healthy Muslim Families — Empowering Muslim Women’s Mental Health
  • HeART Mental Wellness Art Programming For Youth — hEArT Eats
  • Heat Theatre Society — Heat Theatre’s production of “The Heart of Things”
  • Hepatitis Outreach Society of NS — True Project
  • Hope Blooms Youth Social Entrepreneurial Ventures Inc — Music for Mental Health
  • Hope for Mental Health — Families Matter in Mental Health
  • Hope for Mental Health — Biology and Management of Trauma and Depression
  • Hope Project Addiction Recovery Services Co-operative Limited — HOPE for mind, body and soul
  • Kings County Family Resource Centre — Suicide intervention certification for KCFRC team and surrounding community & participants
  • Landing Strong — Landing Strong First Responder Homelessness Prevention Program – Nova Scotia
  • NCNM 277 INC — IN HOME MEDICATION SUPPORT
  • No Time for That (NTFT) Anti-Bullying Society — Nova Scotia NTFT Tour with DeeDee Austin
  • North End Community Health Centre — Mental Health & Wellness Services for Supported Housing Tenants
  • Northwood Bedford — Northwood Bedford Campus
  • Nova Scotia Health Authority – Valley Mental Health Day Hospital — Rural Recreation
  • Nova Scotia Sisterhood — Nova Scotia Sisterhood Salon Talks
  • Old School Community Gathering Place — Musqui Café After Hours
  • Our Health Centre — Thrive Tuesdays: Mental Health Clinic
  • Out of the Cold Community Association — Counseling and Peer Support at Out of The Cold
  • Pictou County Roots For Youth — Foundation For Success: Youth Programming Space
  • Ray of Hope Retreat — 13th Annual Ray of Hope Retreat
  • Red Spruce Mental Health Centre — Red Spruce Mental Health Centre
  • Sackville High School — SHS Ambassadors for Mental Health
  • Saint Mary’s University — Black and Indigenous Wellness at Saint Mary’s
  • Sexual Health Nova Scotia — The Transformation Closet
  • SIMPLY GOOD FORM INC. — Gender Identity Affirmation Clinics and Barrier-free Name Change Program
  • Smart Recovery Foundation — Smart Recovery for Women
  • South Shore Fieldhouse Society — Recreation and Social Program for Mature Adults
  • Strongest Families Institute — The 20th Decade – Phase 2
  • The John Howard Society Of NS — Holistic Responses
  • The Marguerite Centre — Holistic Healing Treatment Programming
  • The Salvation Army Encounter Community Church — The Salvation Army – Emergency Counselling Support Pilot Project
  • The Youth Project — Club Thirteen: Queering Harm Reduction
  • Ummah Society/AMRC — “In Terms I Understand”- Mental Health Awareness for NS Marginalized Communities
  • Valley Community Learning Association — Mental Wellness in Support of Successful Employment (MWiSE) for Youth and Persons with Disabilities
  • Worth Living Mental Health — Queer & Neurodivergent Peer Support Group
  • Yarmouth County Senior Safety — 55+ Wellness Day
  • YMCA of Cape Breton — Y Mind Program
  • YMCA of Greater Halifax/Dartmouth — Y Mind at the YMCA of Greater Halifax/Dartmouth

Nova Scotia Mental Health & Addictions Program Grants

These grants are awarded to programs within Nova Scotia Health’s Mental Health & Addictions Program (NSH MHAP), in Central Zone. This financial support enhances the care provided to clients by funding projects that typically would not receive funding from capital or operating budgets. Funds distributed in April 2024 will support 71 initiatives occurring in this fiscal year.

ABBIE J. LANE

  • Tuning Into Wellness
  • Breaking Down Barriers
  • Living Leisure, Loving Life
  • Change of Scenery
  • Clothes City Grant
  • Nourishing Needs
  • Art Group
  • Eating Disorder Clinic Leisure for Life
  • Eating Disorder Clinic (Outpatients) Yoga for Life

ADULT NEURODEVELOPMENTAL STABILIZATION UNIT

  • A Breath of Fresh Air
  • Community Engagement
  • Food, Flavors and Friends
  • Special Events – ANSU
  • ANSU Wellness Committee
  • Therapeutic Art

COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTIONS SERVICES

Bayers Rd and Spryfield Community Wellness Project
Bayers Rd and Spryfield Living Well with SPMI Psychoeducation Group
Bedford/Sackville Bedford/Sackville Mental Community Outreach

COMMUNITY TRANSITION PROGRAM

  • Healthy Habits
  • Social Recreation Empowerment
  • Program Movement Matters

CONNECTIONS SERVICES

DARTMOUTH

  • Artworks
  • Bug Be Gone!
  • Care Closet
  • Exploring Beyond Our Horizons
  • Friends Among Friends
  • Growing Stronger Together
  • New Directions
  • Therapeutic Landscapes
  • Walking Group

HALIFAX

  • Art Initiatives
  • Coffee Walk
  • Get Out of Town
  • Health Up!
  • Holiday Cheer
  • Equine Supported Wellness Program
  • Music Book
  • Special Events 2024-25
  • Spice Up Your Life
  • YMCA BOOST Program

SACKVILLE

  • Tune into your Mind
  • Move Your Body & Mind

EAST COAST FORENSIC HOSPITAL

  • Celebrating Culture
  • Learning Through Leisure
  • Smart Art from the Heart
  • More Snacks and More Skills
  • Enhancing Mental Health Recovery Through Therapeutic Cooking

MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTIONS DAY HOSPITAL

  • Play the HRM Way
  • Start Up! Program Supplies
  • Wellness Garden
  • Day Hospital Healthy Eating Program (partial funding)
  • YMCA Community Pass

MOUNT HOPE ACUTE CARE

  • Creative Expressions
  • Functional Fitness
  • Get Up and Go
  • Breaking Down Barriers
  • Follow the Leader

SIMPSON LANDING

  • Building Bridges
  • Community Connections
  • Finding Your Balance
  • Journey to Recovery – Spring/Summer
  • Journey to Recovery – Fall/Winter
  • Mind the Employment Gap
  • Starting Fresh

TRANSITION HALL

  • Wellness & Recovery
  • Strive to Thrive: Leisure Education
  • Celebrate Social
  • Explore the Outdoors

WEST HANTS MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTIONS

  • Connections Project

WITHDRAWAL MANAGEMENT PROGRAM

  • Creative Recovery
  • Beyond Addiction, Yoga for Recovery