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”