2023-2024 Community Grants

Community Grants Recipients 2023-24

ROUND 2 - DISTRIBUTED OCTOBER 2023

87 grant applications were approved in Round 2 for a total of $1,642,698.

7th Step - 7th Step Troubled Youth Outreach

7th Step - 7th Step Peer Support Workers and Programming for Criminalized Individuals

Acadia University - Red Spruce Mental Health Centre

Ahead of the Game - Providing Mental Health Resources for Under Resourced Groups

Alcare Place - Art/Music/Alterative Therapeutic Sessions at Alcare

Alcare Place - Community Re-Integration Project

Alcare Place - Community Event

Alice House - Rebuilding Lives Program

Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth - Emergency Shelter Project

Arrow Counselling Association - Healing with Hope: Post Disaster Counselling Support

Beacon House Interfaith Society - Beacon House Shelter Mental Health Counsellor

Bereaved Families of Cape Breton - Roots of Hope Traumatic Loss Program Nova Scotia

Brunswick Street Mission - Feeding Mental Wellbeing

Canadian Blue Wellness Association - Mulgrave Park Mental Health Wellness Program

Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation - Youth Music and Wellness

Carole Rankin - Connecting Threads: A Community Quilt for Perinatal Mental Health

Chebucto Family Centre - Maternal Mental Wellness

CMHA – NS - Women's Empowerment Squad

CMHA – NS - Southwest Nova Newcomer Mental Health Peer Support

CMHA – NS - Building community capacity in Metro: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

CMHA – NS - Building community capacity in rural NS: Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST)

CMHA – NS - Changing Minds Launch in Nova Scotia

Complex Trauma Canada - ASIST T4T Training

Concerts in Care (Health Arts Society Atlantic) - Concerts in Care - New Spaces

Early Psychosis Intervention Program - Online Psychoeducation Videos for Families in Early Psychosis

ElevateHER Mental Health - PAVE (Peers Against Violence & Exploitation)

Empowerment for Hope - Empowerment for Hope: Sex Trafficking Survivor Support Counselling

Esinam Counselling Inc - Domestic Violence Healing Group for Children

Evangeline Recreation Society - Mental Health Education Project (MHEP)

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

Fountain of Health - Promoting the Fountain of Health’s THRIVE © Approach to Wellbeing to NS Seniors

Gambler Support Society - Gaming Crisis

Global Health Alliance - Earth-Connected Wisdom for the Digital Age

Halifax Lancers - Connecting Communities with The Horses of Halifax

Halifax Search & Rescue - Halifax Search & Rescue ASIST Training

Healthy Minds Cooperative - Queer Mental Health & Comedy

Hepatitis Outreach Society of NS - Wellness Project

Herring Cove Junior High - Lunch Bunch Cooking Club

HOPE (Healing Opportunities for People Everywhere) - Couch of Hope Counselling Services Phase 4

Hope Blooms - Love Grows here: Wellness and Food Community Hub

Hope for Mental Health - Families Matter in Mental Health

Hope for Mental Health - Biology and Management of Depression and Trauma Education Program

Hope House - Staying Well Loving Those With Addiction

In the Works Social Enterprise Network - In the Works - Peer Led Support Group

Kids Help Phone - Counsellor in the Classroom - Improving Mental Health Awareness for Nova Scotia Students

Kids Help Phone - Peer-to-Peer Community - Youth Co-Creation Project

Kids Help Phone - Mapping Mental Health Service Access and Gaps

Kristi Garrido - Haven Community Counselling

Laing House Association - Laing House Youth Mental Health Support Group

Let Your Light Shine Jevon Link Society - Community Resilience and Suicide Prevention Training Project

LOVE NS - LOVE Leadership Retreat Camp

LungNSPEI - Nicotine Replacement Therapy & Resources for Nova Scotians in Non-Profit Addictions Treatment

Martime Play Therapy - Maritime PTC Student Counselling Program

Mawita'mk - Blanket Exercise Healing Sessions

Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Society, Direction 180 - Blooming Minds

Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Society, Mainline - Wellness Navigator

Millbrook Health Centre - Community Support Breakfast

Neptune Theatre - Neptune Theatre Addicted

New Waterford Giving Hands Society - Community Empowerment through ASIST Training

Northwood Bedford - Music Therapy

Our Health Centre - THRIVE: Mental Health Clinic

Paqtnkek Mi'kmaw Nation - Paqtnkek Healthy Grieving Project 23-24

Pathways to Employment Society - Participant Directed Planning Case Management

QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation - Text4Support

Reachability - The Wellness Hub

Rusty Tractor Productions - Rescued by Love (Atlantic)

Saint George’s YouthNet - Saint George’s YouthNet Teen Program

Sam Madore, Let Me Overthink About It Podcast - Let Me Overthink About It, editing support/ partnership

Schools Plus – HRCE - Light Spectrum: Social Group

SchoolsPlus – HRCE - Reset Spaces for Elementary & Junior High Students

SchoolsPlus – SSRCE - Connecting Families: Concurrent Interventions for Intergenerational Trauma

Second Story Women's Centre - Support Counselling Program

Sexual Health Centre for Cumberland County - Safer Spaces in Cumberland County

SOAR (Survivors of Abuse Recovering) - SOAR Peer Supporter Training

Strongest Families - Deaf, Hard of Hearing: Blind, Low Vision, Deafblind

The Halifax Experience Foundation - Creative Hub Mental Health Support Initiative for New Immigrants

The John Howard Society - Holistic Responses

The Marguerite Centre - Holistic Healing

The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy - Medication Delivery Support

The ROC Society - Paint Sessions with a Gallery

TREY - TREY Trauma Recovery for Exploited Youth Continuing Care Program and Facilitator

Truefaux Films Inc - Wicked Bodies (Phase 2)

Worth Living Mental Health - Chronic Pain Peer Support Group

Worth Living Mental Health - Membertou Youth Gathering 2023-24

Worth Living Mental Health - Queer Neurodivergent Peer Support Group

YMCA - Cape Breton-YMCA Safe Sisters

The Youth Project - Queered Sanctuary: Exploring 2SLGBTQIA+ Relationships to Spirituality

ROUND 1 - DISTRIBUTED APRIL 2023

7th Step Society – “Peer Support”

7th Step Society – “Troubled Youth”

Adsum Association for Women and Children – “PeerWorks Program”

CMHA Halifax-Dartmouth – “A Safe Place to Heal: Reducing Stigma in Black Africian NS Communities”

CMHA NS – “Family Peer Support Group”

CMHA NS – “Membertou Community Engagement”

CMHA NS – “Spotlight Initiative”

CMHA NS – “Women’s Empowerment Squad”

CMHA NS – “Workplace Mental Health Lunch and Learn”

Common Roots Woodside – “Growing Mental Health 2023”

ElevateHER Mental Health Support – “Housing for Hope”

Landing Strong Cooperative – “ Resiliency Project – Phase III”

LOVE NS – “Weekly Programming & Free Flow Fridays”

North End Community Health Centre – “Programming Support”

Strongest Families Institute – “Programming access for deaf & hard of hearing”

YWCA – “CASE Survivor Fund”

Aidaen’s Palce Youth Wellness Centre – “Keeping Our Youth Alive”

Autism NS – “Healthy Relationships, Sexuality & Autism: Online Resource Bank”

Direction 180, the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre – “Inside Out”

Direction 180, the Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre – “Self Care: For Us, By Us”

Family SOS – “Healthy Kidz and Healthy Teenz Program Enrichment”

Halifax Lancers – “Health and Healing with the Horses of Halifax”

Common Roots BiHi – “Nourishment in the Garden: Food, Connection and Wellness”

LakeCity Works – “Lake City Works Mandt Certification”

NS Brotherhood – “Barbershop Talks”

The John Howard Society – “Holistic Responses”

The Marguerite Centre – “Gender-based, practical communication skills program for women healing from addictions”

The Tema Foundation – “Recognize and Take Action”

The Youth Project – “Beyond Survival: Queered Culturally Relevant Community Health”

Survivors of Abuse Recovering (SOAR) – “S.O.A.R Trauma-Informed Educational Workshop”

Healthy Minds Cooperative – “Open Minds Recovery Group”

Salvation Army Halifax Centre of Hope – “Anchorage Recovery Yoga Instruction”

Club Inclusion – “Music & Movement: Hearts in Harmony”

Stepping Stone Association – “Stepping Stone’s Holistic Addictions Program (HAP)”

Hospice Halifax – “Grief and Bereavement Support Program”

Clayton Park Jr. High – “Clayton Park Jr. High Wellness Space”

Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation – “The Mental Health and Addictions Patient Care Fund”

Colchester Sexual Assault Centre – “Sexual Violence & Trauma Counselling Therapy Services”

Healing Opportunities for People Everywhere – “Open Minds Recovery Group”

After Trauma Empowerment Network – “Living With Trauma: Creating Trauma Informed Communities”

Tri County women’s Centre - “Supporting Women with Mild to Moderate Mental Health needs - Phase 2”

Women of First Light – “Quilting to Help Ease Intergenerational Trauma”

Riverside Community Hall Association (Portapique Community Hall) – “Keeping Each Other Safe”

Cecilia Concerts Series – “Sensory-Accessible Concerts – Season Three”

Unity Charity – “The Source: Inclusion and Connectivity for ANS Youth”

African Nova Scotia Justice Institute (ANSJI) – “Black Mental Health Workshop Series”

South Shore Sexual Health – “Building Capacity in Caring for Gender Diverse Children”

Mi’kmaw Circle of Hope – “Mi'kmaw Rites of Passage: Empowering our Mi'kmaw Young Girls”

Old School Community Gathering Place – “Shorefooted: Increasing Community Access to Wellbeing”

Gambling Risk Informed NS – “Retrospective on Effects of Gambling in Nova Scotia”

Ahead of the Game Youth Mentoring – “Access and Outreach in Rural Nova Scotia”

Evangeline Recreation Society – “Belonging and Becoming”

Windsor SchoolsPlus – “Opportunities for Play Take Stress Away (OPTSA)”

Dr. David Gardner – “The Sleepwell Coach”

YMCA – Cumberland – “Seniors’ Social”

Nova Scotia Sisterhood Initiative – “Mental Health Talks (Salon Talks)”

Shelburne County Youth Health & Support Association – “Rest And Relax Retreat”

AIDS Coalition – “HIV & 2SLGBTQIA+ Mental Health Support”

Caravan Theatre – “Making A Difference Through Theatre Campaign”

Shoreham Village Senior Citizen Association – “Between The Mountains Music Therapy”

Searidge Foundation – “Searidge Trauma Informed Therapy”

Kristi Garrido – “Haven Community Counselling”

Kinship Performing Arts Centre Association – “Dance for Dementia”

Construction Safety Nova Scotia – “Construction Industry Peer Support”

Critical Incident Stress Management Nova Scotia – “Growing Together”