Grants and Contributions

Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center located in Toronto, ON is the largest Veterans' care facility in Canada. Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre will use funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund to provide group and individual yoga therapy to Veterans with the goal of supporting independence, increasing mobility, reducing risk of falls, and improving mood and overall quality of life. In addition, it will offer a therapeutic yoga program to family members to address caregiver burnout and to support overall well-being, as well as to staff members, who are reporting greater levels of stress and burnout from being on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Sunnybrook Foundation has the largest Veterans' care facility in Canada offering long-term and complex care to Canadian Veterans. With funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund, Sunnybrook Veterans Centre will design and implement an interprofessional approach to reduce the risk of isolation for Veterans and other seniors when they are required to undergo a period of quarantine for medical reasons. A secondary objective is to support and empower front line staff in their role as caregivers as they engage to build and maintain rapport with quarantined Veterans

Perley Health is a long-term care home and seniors' village with a long and honoured tradition of serving War Service Overseas Veterans. With funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund, this organization will conduct research to better understand the determinants of older Veteran and family health to ensure their needs are better met by the health system, policies, and programs in Canada.

The Veteran Farm Project located in Nova Scotia gives Veterans the opportunity to experience nature through horticulture programs. The funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund will allow the Veteran Farm Project to continue supporting Veterans and especially women Veterans with a safe environment to come together, have new experiences, meet new friends and learn about themselves after service.

The Veterans Association Food Bank is dedicated to supporting and enriching the lives of Veterans and their families by providing services that promote wellbeing, mental health, peer support and food security. The funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund will help develop new programming specifically to support LGBTQ2+ Veterans as well as survivors of Military Sexual Trauma and to implement new peer-led activities in Edmonton and Calgary.

Veteran Emergency Transition Services Canada is a federally registered non-profit charity that works within Canadian communities to identify homeless Veterans, provide them with emergency support, and quickly re-establish the bond that exists between soldiers. VETS Canada will use the funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund to offer their Equal Treatment for All program. This project focuses on Indigenous, women and LGBTQ2+ Veterans and their families who are homeless, at risk of homelessness or otherwise in crisis.

The Veterans Transition Network delivers mental health services specifically for Veterans from coast to coast. With funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund, this organization will deliver and evaluate a promising new mental health and transition program for Veterans suffering from magnified mental health challenges due to the COVID-19 pandemic

Wounded Warriors Canada is a national mental health service provider using clinical best practices and evidence-based care to create an environment of compassion, resiliency and hope for Canada's Veterans, First Responders and their families. Funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being will allow Wounded Warriors to implement the “Warrior Kids Program”, which designed for children exposed to the secondary effects of trauma as a result of a Veteran or First Responder parent struggling with the effects of operational stress injuries such as PTSD.

The key objective of the Sectoral Initiatives Program is to improve the availability and use of sectoral labour market information, national occupational standards, and accreditation and certification regimes among stakeholders; and to support better application and integration into appropriate programs and activities.

The objectives of the Program are to; support the development and utilization of effective approaches to address social issues and challenges;.develop, exchange and apply knowledge, tools and resources that address social needs of individuals, families and communities; foster partnerships and networks to address existing and emerging social issues; recognize and support the ability of not-for-profit organizations to identify and address social development priorities; and, recognize and promote community engagement initiatives (e.g. volunteerism, corporate social responsibility, innovation, partnerships, coalitions) that mobilize community assets and develop capacities and resources for action..