Community Grants Recipients 2023-24

Round 2 - distributed october 2023

We have approved 87 grant applications for a total of $1,642,698 in this round. 

  1. 7th Step - 7th Step Troubled Youth Outreach

  2. 7th Step - 7th Step Peer Support Workers and Programming for Criminalized Individuals

  3. Acadia University - Red Spruce Mental Health Centre

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

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

  6. Alcare Place - Community Re-Integration Project

  7. Alcare Place - Community Event

  8. Alice House - Rebuilding Lives Program

  9. Archdiocese of Halifax-Yarmouth - Emergency Shelter Project

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

  11. Beacon House Interfaith Society - Beacon House Shelter Mental Health Counsellor

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

  13. Brunswick Street Mission - Feeding Mental Wellbeing

  14. Canadian Blue Wellness Association - Black Mental Health & Wellness Program

  15. Cape Breton Regional Hospital Foundation - Youth Music and Wellness

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

  17. Chebucto Family Centre - Maternal Mental Wellness

  18. CMHA – NS - Women's Empowerment Squad

  19. CMHA – NS - Southwest Nova Newcomer Mental Health Peer Support

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

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

  22. CMHA – NS - Changing Minds Launch in Nova Scotia

  23. Complex Trauma Canada - ASIST T4T Training

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

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

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

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

  28. Esinam Counselling Inc - Domestic Violence Healing Group for Children

  29. Evangeline Recreation Society - Mental Health Education Project (MHEP)

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

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

  32. Gambler Support Society - Gaming Crisis

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

  34. Halifax Lancers - Connecting Communities with The Horses of Halifax

  35. Halifax Search & Rescue - Halifax Search & Rescue ASIST Training

  36. Healthy Minds Cooperative - Queer Mental Health & Comedy

  37. Hepatitis Outreach Society of NS - Wellness Project

  38. Herring Cove Junior High - Lunch Bunch Cooking Club

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

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

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

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

  43. Hope House - Staying Well Loving Those With Addiction

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

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

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

  47. Kids Help Phone - Mapping Mental Health Service Access and Gaps

  48. Kristi Garrido - Haven Community Counselling

  49. Laing House Association - Laing House Youth Mental Health Support Group

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

  51. LOVE NS - LOVE Leadership Retreat Camp

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

  53. Martime Play Therapy - Maritime PTC Student Counselling Program

  54. Mawita'mk - Blanket Exercise Healing Sessions

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

  56. Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Society, Mainline - Wellness Navigator

  57. Millbrook Health Centre - Community Support Breakfast

  58. Neptune Theatre - Neptune Theatre Addicted

  59. New Waterford Giving Hands Society - Community Empowerment through ASIST Training

  60. Northwood Bedford - Music Therapy

  61. Our Health Centre - THRIVE: Mental Health Clinic

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

  63. Pathways to Employment Society - Participant Directed Planning Case Management

  64. QEII Health Sciences Centre Foundation - Text4Support

  65. Reachability - The Wellness Hub

  66. Rusty Tractor Productions - Rescued by Love (Atlantic)

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

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

  69. Schools Plus – HRCE - Light Spectrum: Social Group

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

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

  72. Second Story Women's Centre - Support Counselling Program

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

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

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

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

  77. The John Howard Society - Holistic Responses

  78. The Marguerite Centre - Holistic Healing

  79. The Medicine Shoppe Pharmacy - Medication Delivery Support

  80. The ROC Society - Paint Sessions with a Gallery

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

  82. Truefaux Films Inc - Wicked Bodies (Phase 2)

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

  84. Worth Living Mental Health - Membertou Youth Gathering 2023-24

  85. Worth Living Mental Health - Queer Neurodivergent Peer Support Group

  86. YMCA - Cape Breton-YMCA Safe Sisters

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

Round 1 - distributed April 2023

1    7th Step Society – “Peer Support”

2    7th Step Society – “Troubled Youth”

3    Adsum Association for Women and Children – “PeerWorks Program”

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

5    CMHA NS – “Family Peer Support Group”

6    CMHA NS – “Membertou Community Engagement”

7    CMHA NS – “Spotlight Initiative”

8    CMHA NS – “Women’s Empowerment Squad”

9    CMHA NS – “Workplace Mental Health Lunch and Learn”

10  Common Roots Woodside – “Growing Mental Health 2023”

11  ElevateHER Mental Health Support – “Housing for Hope”

12  Landing Strong Cooperative – “ Resiliency Project – Phase III”

13  LOVE NS – “Weekly Programming & Free Flow Fridays”

14  North End Community Health Centre – “Programming Support”

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

16  YWCA – “CASE Survivor Fund”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

24  LakeCity Works – “Lake City Works Mandt Certification”

25  NS Brotherhood – “Barbershop Talks”

26  The John Howard Society – “Holistic Responses”

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

28  The Tema Foundation – “Recognize and Take Action”

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

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

31  Healthy Minds Cooperative – “Open Minds Recovery Group”

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

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

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

35  Hospice Halifax – “Grief and Bereavement Support Program”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

52  Evangeline Recreation Society – “Belonging and Becoming”

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

54  Dr. David Gardner – “The Sleepwell Coach”

55  YMCA – Cumberland – “Seniors’ Social”

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

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

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

59  Caravan Theatre – “Making A Difference Through Theatre Campaign”

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

61  Searidge Foundation – “Searidge Trauma Informed Therapy”

62  Kristi Garrido – “Haven Community Counselling”

63  Kinship Performing Arts Centre Association – “Dance for Dementia”

64  Construction Safety Nova Scotia – “Construction Industry Peer Support”

65  Critical Incident Stress Management Nova Scotia – “Growing Together”