The Honourable John Haggie, Minister of Health and Community Services, today announced 32 recipients for this year’s Community Addictions Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Grants. These grants, which total $140,000, are awarded to individuals, community groups, schools and not-for-profit organizations to support their initiatives related to mental health promotion and prevention of substance use and addictions. The list of recipients is included in the backgrounder below.
Funded by the Provincial Government, the grant program is administered in partnership with the regional health authorities who have dedicated mental health and addictions prevention and promotion consultants to work with the applicants. Applications for this year’s grants align with one or more of the following priority areas of Towards Recovery: The Mental Health and Addictions Action Plan:
- Suicide prevention, including stigma reduction, support for individuals experiencing suicide risk, and training on suicide risk assessment and intervention, mental health literacy and grief and loss support;
- Supporting positive mental health and wellness, including life promotion initiatives that build a sense of community, purpose, hope and belonging among individuals, families and communities and collaborative approaches to promoting positive mental health and resilience; or
- Preventing substance use related risks and harms, including initiatives to increase awareness of low-risk drinking guidelines, training related to prevention and treatment of alcohol related harms, and initiatives that reduce avoidable injuries, illnesses and deaths associated with alcohol use.
More information on the Community Addictions Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Grants Program is available here.
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“Community-led wellness initiatives are powerful tools to support the health and well-being of individuals, families and communities. These grants build upon the strength of community leaders who are working in partnership with regional health authorities and government to improve mental health and wellbeing, and prevent illness and substance use disorders. We value these community-led efforts and are happy to provide grants to assist in their work.”
Honourable John Haggie
Minister of Health and Community Services
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BACKGROUNDER
Community Addictions Prevention and Mental Health Promotion Grant Recipients
| Applicant | Project | Amount |
| Anglican Cathedral | 18-week horticultural therapy program for vulnerable individuals with mental health and addictions issues to promote mental wellness. | $3,600 |
| Lonely Man project | Enhancing men’s mental health. Topics include toxic masculinity, barriers to men seeking help and stigma. | $4,000 |
| Brother Rice School | ASIST training for five staff members and trauma-informed care workshop for 35 educators. | $3,000 |
| Building Bridges Youth Theatre
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Program for community members, especially seniors, to create textiles and crafts such as knitting, sewing and woodworking, exchange household items and interact with others. | $3,500 |
| CNA, HVGB | Stress and anxiety reduction for Indigenous students at CNA. Program includes traditional practices, elder visits, slipper making. | $4,560 |
| CNIB | Peer support for individuals with vision loss to help reconnect clients with the community and provide emotional, social and personal health supports. This would also include introducing volunteer, educational, recreational and leisure activities. | $4,000 |
| CYN Placentia | Stigma reduction, suicide prevention, mental wellness activities. | $3,000 |
| CYN Southern Avalon | Workshops to foster mental wellness. | $3,000 |
| Eastern Door Feather Carriers | Promote Indigenous mental wellness framework using cultural ceremonies and teachings. | $10,000 |
| Eating Disorders Foundation NL | Parents of Hope monthly support group. | $5,000 |
| fasdNL | Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder train the trainer sessions, including new justice module. | $3,000 |
| Forest Park Primary | To purchase Social Emotional Learning materials in French and English for students in Grades 2-3 to link with Towards Recovery SEL work with K-Grade 1. | $5,000 |
| Goose Bay Military Family Resource Centre | ASIST training for 5-Wing Goose Bay. | $8,130 |
| Home Again Furniture Bank | Collaboration among HMP inmates, build tables to distribute to people in need in the community. | $7,250 |
| Jane Collins Academy | ASIST and Safe Talk Prevention training to students. | $2,600 |
| Kittiwake Mental Health Working Group | Safe Talk training for students. | $6,500 |
| Lake Melville School | Building mental health and wellness among students through activities with students, teachers, parents and community members. Activities include establishing clubs for chess and audio visual work, engaging in classroom movement based mental breaks to increase fitness, Gender-Sexuality Alliance and family trivia nights. | $5,100 |
| MUN Iranians | Enhance mental well-being and community connection among Iranian students to reduce social isolation. | $3,000 |
| NLESD Western | Maintain Gay Straight Alliance, hold Free to be Me Gender and Sexuality Alliance conference. | $3,000 |
| NL Stuttering Association | Best practice fluency training for speech language pathologists. | $4,750 |
| Roncalli Central High | Safe Talk Suicide Prevention training for students. | $2,000 |
| Roots of Empathy | Full school year of programming on positive mental health in children. | $6,400 |
| Salvation Army Family Services | Tuesday time-out sessions to enhance mental wellness, reduce social isolation, and renew their Van program so staff can visit individuals in the community to provide information on programs and services. | $1,500 |
| Scouts Canada | St. John Ambulance Mental Health First Aid training. | $4,000 |
| Tanya Joy | Joy Run 50, a run to promote awareness of suicide prevention. | $4,000 |
| Town of Indian Bay | ATV safety and impaired driving among youth. | $3,000 |
| Trinity Historical Assn. | Presentations on alcohol use, suicide prevention and mental health. | $3,000 |
| YMCA Exploits Valley/Battcock Manor | Monthly community presentations to residents of Battcock Manor to decrease social isolation. | $1,610 |
| YMCA of NE Avalon | 10 workshops for youth on suicide prevention, alcohol use and mental health issues. | $4,000 |
| Youth 2000 Centre | 36 Wellness Wednesday sessions over a one-year period. Topics include suicide prevention/mental health promotion. | $2,675 |
| Violence
Prevention Northern Peninsula |
Develop safe spaces for students in four local schools.
Rooms to include resources in a comfortable space. |
$7,000 |
| Woodland Primary | Social Emotional Learning for students in Grades 2-3 which will link with Towards Recovery SEL work with K-Grade 1. Funding to be used for buying programs and resource materials. | $8,825 |
| Total Funding
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$140,000 |