Grants and Contributions

Annual host country grant to the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

This project will enhance the life-saving capabilities of Nanaimo's Community Safety Officers by outfitting 3 responder vehicles with medical and harm reduction supplies. It will improve overdose response times, allow officers to spend more time in the community, and provide critical support to the city's unsheltered population using substances.

To strengthen responses to drug and substance use issues in Canada.

This project will address health care related to overdose events, and basic needs among people who use substances and are experiencing homelessness. It will provide wraparound support to address the effects of the health and homelessness crisis on individuals experiencing homelessness in a supportive environment. Specifically, it will provide integrated health care planning, such as harm reduction education, overdose prevention support, access to harm reduction supplies, and access to overdose reversal medications such as naloxone. In addition, individuals will be provided with access to connections to wrap around substance use services and health and wellness services.

This project supports individuals in crisis by offering a collaborative model with social service and health agencies, providing assessment, intervention, referrals, and outreach. It includes a culturally responsive approach, particularly for Indigenous communities, focused on building positive relationships and incorporating Indigenous healing practices. The initiative also aims to enhance outreach efforts in Kelowna to address the opioid crisis, by purchasing 2 vans and creating peer-assisted teams to deliver support

To strengthen responses to drug and substance use issues in Canada.

This project will establish a rapid response Opioid Outreach Team in Durham Region to enhance access to therapeutic intervention and harm reduction services for individuals affected by the opioid crisis. The team, staffed by two registered social workers, will provide on-the-spot therapy and support for addiction and withdrawal management. Operating out of a fully equipped outreach vehicle, the team will work for one year to address urgent opioid-related needs.

This Mobile Outreach Program will be staffed and equipped to facilitate timely, accessible connections to critical recovery resources in the town of Amherst including: staffing; mobile response vehicle and service delivery.

To support the federal government’s commitment to maintain a strong and effective publicly funded health care system through investments in emerging and demonstrated innovations in priority areas, such as palliative and end-of-life care, home and community care, mental health care and other federal, provincial-territorial and emerging priorities.

To support the federal government’s commitment to maintain a strong and effective publicly funded health care system through investments in emerging and demonstrated innovations in priority areas, such as palliative and end-of-life care, home and community care, mental health care and other federal, provincial-territorial and emerging priorities.