Community Safety Investment Framework funding allocations

East Calgary Ambassador Program: The program helps vulnerable communities on the streets access service referrals for help and provides real-time, on-the-ground data to improve what we know about these vulnerable communities through building trust and relationship.

Expanding The Alex Street Team for Improved Accessibility, Collaboration and Outreach: The Street Team is an addiction and mental health focused outreach program that reduces barriers to services through proactive street engagement and community collaboration. The Team builds relationships with street-connected individuals, facilitates access to recovery programs and services and increases community capacity to respond to opioid poisonings and crisis.

Alpha House Outreach: The program includes the majority of Alpha House's Outreach programs created to reduce the impact of public intoxication on the broader community while providing trauma-informed and real-time crisis management for individuals vulnerable due to their homelessness, addiction and/or mental health. *Funding of this program is shared with the Calgary Police Service. The indicated funded amount reflects the contribution from The City of Calgary.

Calgary Sexual Violence Crisis Response - Serving and Reaching Out to Diverse Communities: This initiative is the second phase of the program that builds on the results of the surveys from the organization's staff, external partners and individuals who have utilized our services. There will be a strong focus on training internally and externally through more outreach to build relationships with service providers and community groups that are serving or have connections with Indigenous, Black and other Racialized individuals.

Crisis Case Management Support: The program provides culturally sensitive, client centered and trauma informed secondary crisis response for immigrant and refugee women and their children in the immediate aftermath of when a crisis has occurred using a compassionate and holistic approach. Services include crisis intervention, safety planning, counselling, case management support, follow up, legal advocacy and access to emergency housing and psycho-social supports.

Rapid Outreach Program: The program supports women experiencing mental health, addictions and homelessness and facing immediate danger due to escaping domestic violence. Offered immediately and up to one week, we address immediate needs, safety plan, offer temporary accommodation, system navigation and facilitate a warm handoff to long-term supports.

Connect 2 Care: Is a multidisciplinary mobile outreach team that provides transitional case management, advocacy and care coordination for individuals in the immediate aftermath of a crisis who are unhoused or vulnerably housed, low-income and socially vulnerable with high acute care use. The C2C team works to improve coordination of services by bridging gaps between acute care and community health services to reduce unnecessary acute care and improve access to health and social supports.

Enhanced Crisis Supports for Those At-Risk of Suicide: This initiative provides immediate connection to a trained crisis line responder using multi-mode technology, 24/7/365 combined with evidence-based follow-up support to ensure individuals at risk of suicide experience compassionate and non-judgemental human connection while accessing the continuum of crisis and mental health supports.

We Are Together: Through a 24/7 Chinese Emotional Support Hotline, this initiative provides supportive listening in a culturally responsive way and connects callers with community services through 24/7 non-emergency response to crisis.

Imminent Risk Crisis Navigation: This program improves the crisis response for adult individuals and their children who are at imminent risk of serious harm or homicide due to domestic violence and abuse, when there is no capacity in the shelter system. This initiative will provide wrap-around support, including safe accommodation, crisis support and systems navigation.

Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) Coordination and Integrated Case Management: This initiative ensures that children and youth who have experienced abuse and their families receive a timely, integrated response throughout the investigation, judicial and therapeutic journey. It implements an integrated case management, client-centred approach to work with our partners in law enforcement child protection, prosecution, mental health, medical and victim advocacy.

Collaborative Outreach Preventing Exploitation - Community Response Model Triage: The program supports youth aged 12-24 years, who are at risk of, or engaged in sexual exploitation within Calgary and surrounding areas. Through Calgary’s Community Response Model, the program provides a collaborative, coordinated and client centered approach to triage, case management and mental health supports that help youth and their families mitigate the risks associated with sexual exploitation both in the community and online.

SEEDreach Mobile Health Advocacy and Addictions Program: This program provides integrated case management support for people experiencing poverty and homelessness, with a particular focus on the transient and unsheltered population. The program addresses gaps in the mental health system by targeting those not reached by traditional supports, assisting them in achieving greater wellness, stability and quality of life.

Connections to Healing Program: The program is rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing that utilizes both Indigenous traditional teachings and western approaches to healing. It supports families and individuals who have experienced violence, abuse, grief and trauma who seek support and advocacy. The program offers means of connection and inclusion by utilizing the trauma counsellor Elders and staff.

Nisa Homes Remote Casework Program (RCP): This program provides support to vulnerable and Racialized women and children experiencing domestic violence and poverty through integrated case management services and remote casework.

Sahara Rapid Response: This project supports members of the South Asian community who struggle to access conventional support services. Our crisis response team, well-versed in South Asian traditions and collective consciousness, provides onsite immediate resource navigation, crisis counselling and are accessible outside of regular business hours through a rapid response phone line.

EXIT Program Crisis/Triage Initiative: This initiative facilitates and supports immediate safe exit from sexual exploitation for women age 16+ and their children with extremely high risk of violent victimization and who have suffered multiple traumas and victimizations.

AFRICAN CRISIS HELPLINE: The Helpline provides 24/7 access to emergency and non-emergency support and outreach services for immigrants and newcomers in the African community facing family violence, including immediate access to shelter, translation services, a cultural response team and legal aid within the initial 24 hours of reaching out for support. The helpline connects victims with essential resources such as community leaders, police, social services, healthcare providers and other organizations.

The Immigrant Education Society (TIES)

BENCH 2: Building Equitable Newcomer Crisis Help: Newcomers face critical gaps in urgent crisis and mental health support disproportionate to general populations. BENCH is a joint venture to address this gap through culturally informed, collaborative primary and secondary crisis response service delivery. BENCH also engages in capacity-building, information exchange and research activities that increase the cultural responsiveness of services and systems to better accommodate the crisis needs of Calgary’s newcomers.

Action Table Calgary: A new community approach helps Calgarians with multiple risk factors urgently needing help. The partnership between United Way of Calgary and Area, The City of Calgary and the Calgary Police Service (CPS) brings representatives from community agencies together to provide coordinated support services within 24 to 48 hours.

Gendered Safety in Crisis Navigation: This program provides immediate professional support, information and referrals in a safe community environment to women and gender-diverse individuals in crisis and facing imminent crisis. Supports will be provided in a trauma-informed and person-centered manner, increasing the likelihood of de-escalation of behavioural incidents and creating connections to vital community services.

Strengthening Family and Youth Crisis Response: This program offers client-centered, trauma-informed, and culturally-responsive crisis counseling and therapeutic support to all Calgarians. Individuals, youth and families access services via call, text, chat, by-appointment or walk-in, with support available in their preferred language. The program extends in-home crisis support to families.

211/911 Outreach (HELP Team Expansion): Diverting 911 and 211 calls from unnecessary police response towards HELP and Ambassador teams for a more relevant response, citywide. 

HELP Team: To provide a trauma-informed, culturally aware and timely service that reaches individuals struggling with substance use at the street level. *Funding of this program is shared with the City of Calgary. The indicated funded amount reflects the contribution from the Calgary Police Service. 

Calgary Police Service - Child Abuse Unit 

Child Abuse Unit Sexually Exploited Youth Community Navigator: Civilian role that builds relationships with sexually exploited youth, as well as partners with agencies who deal with sexual exploitation. Works in partnership with investigators and external agencies, to provide a proactive approach to sexual exploitation by accessing available social programs, resources and continued engagement to prevent ongoing exploitation 

Calgary Police Service - Community Support Diversity Response Team 

Community Mobilizer Expansion: Expansion of DRT by 2 members. The DRT Civilians address racial and cultural barriers that impact safety and wellbeing by building relationships with marginalized and visible minority populations who historically experience lower levels of trust in police. The DRT Civilians provide a secondary crisis response through proactive community engagement, safety education and access to culturally relevant services. 

Calgary Police Service - Community Support Unit Hate-Crime Prevention Team 

Enhancing CPS Response to Hate Crime Awareness and Trauma-Informed Support for Victims of Hate: Provides ongoing training for Calgary Police Service members to enhance cultural competency, improve investigative effectiveness and ensure trauma-informed approaches when working with victims.  Also includes external education for adults and youth in the community, raising awareness about hate crimes and promoting respectful, inclusive behaviors.  Through tailored workshops, presentations and collaborations with community organizations, the HCPT strives to build understanding and resilience against hate-driven violence. 

Calgary Police Service - Community Support Unit - Indigenous Relations Team 

Indigenous Advisory Circle: Supports to the sustainable, culturally informed and reciprocal relationship between the Calgary Police Service (CPS) and Indigenous communities in Treaty 7 territory by providing honoraria and other basic supports to Indigenous partners. 

Calgary Police Service - Records Processing Unit - Online Report Specialist Team 

Online Reporting Modernization: Prioritizes victims by offering a safe, private and accessible way to report sensitive and underreported crimes. Supports those victims/complainants in various emotional states. Funds seven positions who fill the human resources requirements of the reporting system, Victim Directed Voice Entry (VDVE). VDVE is focused on enhancing empathetic service, crisis recognition and referral and connecting victims with community resources. VDVE requires a CPS person to speak with victims and complainants directly. 

Calgary Police Service - Restorative Justice and Community Crisis Response Unit 

CPS Member Training: Primary Crisis Response: Improves capacity of frontline members to acknowledge, respond to and manage mental health related incidents, as well as increase internal training capacity and offerings. 

Calgary Police Service - Restorative Justice and Community Crisis Response Unit

VAST Court Liaison: Provides critical supports - travel, meal - to volunteers who in turn provide compassionate, trauma-informed support to victims of crime and their families throughout the court process, helping to reduce emotional distress, increase understanding of legal proceedings and foster a sense of safety and empowerment. 

Calgary Police Service - Strategic Partnership Division

CSIF Funding Analyst: Provides administrative leadership and general oversight to the implementation of CSIF. 

Calgary Police Service - Community Policing Analytical Unit 

HSU Intake Coordinator: Streamlines intake, referrals, triage and documentation to increase the capacity of the CERT HSU program to improve public perception of safety, reduce police calls for service, while providing compassionate supports to persons in crisis. Role allows HSU Coordinators to increase capacity to focus on core support and potentially expand by reducing administrative burden. 

211/911 Co-location: To imbed 211 call-takers in the 911 Centre to divert lower-risk mental health crisis calls away from emergency services. 

SORCe Bridge Funding: Providing operational support through accommodation and institution of a Safety Ambassador, a peer-informed position rooted in lived experience that supports safety and conflict de-escalation while fostering trust and belonging for all who access the space.  

CERT Clinicians: Two additional clinicians to provide support citywide, based out of Districts 2 and 3. 

HSU Case Manager: Adds a dedicated case manager to support individuals connected to the High System User officer(s) to focus on rapport building, system/resource navigation and treatment for these unique individuals. Filled by an RN. 

Mobile Response Team (MRT): Providing clinicians to staff the MRT consult line – a resource for frontline police who encounter individuals experiencing mental health crises. 

Police and Crisis Team (PACT): Providing one clinician to a PACT team - a partnership between Recovery Alberta and Calgary Police Service that offers mental health assessment, support and/or consultation in crisis situations and can arrange urgent psychiatry assessments and referrals as needed. 

East Calgary Ambassador Program: The program helps vulnerable communities on the streets access service referrals for help and provides real-time, on-the-ground data to improve what we know about these vulnerable communities through building trust and relationship.

Expanding The Alex Street Team for Improved Accessibility, Collaboration and Outreach: The Street Team is an addiction and mental health focused outreach program that reduces barriers to services through proactive street engagement and community collaboration. The Team builds relationships with street-connected individuals, facilitates access to recovery programs and services and increases community capacity to respond to opioid poisonings and crisis.

Alpha House Outreach: The program includes the majority of Alpha House's Outreach programs created to reduce the impact of public intoxication on the broader community while providing trauma-informed and real-time crisis management for individuals vulnerable due to their homelessness, addiction and/or mental health. *Funding of this program is shared with the Calgary Police Service. The indicated funded amount reflects the contribution from The City of Calgary.

Tapestry Project: A secondary crisis response program that addresses gaps in mental health service access for newcomers by engaging diverse Racialized communities in community outreach, education, system navigation and capacity-building.

Calgary Sexual Violence Crisis Response - Serving and Reaching out to Diverse Communities: This initiative is the second phase of the program that builds on the results of the surveys from the organization's staff, external partners and individuals who have utilized our services. There will be a strong focus on training internally and externally through more outreach to build relationships with service providers and community groups that are serving or have connections with Indigenous, Black and other Racialized individuals.

Mental Health & Addictions Systems Navigation Support Program: This program provides assistance to clients who are struggling with mental health or addictions, helping them navigate Calgary's mental health and additions system, moving them forward in their housing and recovery journeys.

Crisis Case Management Support: The program provides culturally sensitive, client centered and trauma informed secondary crisis response for immigrant and refugee women and their children in the immediate aftermath of when a crisis has occurred using a compassionate and holistic approach. Servives include crisis intervention, safety planning, counselling, case management support, follow up, legal advocacy and access to emergency housing and psycho-social supports.

Calgary Community Court: Is an innovative court diversion program created by Calgary Legal Guidance in partnership with the City of Calgary Municipal Law and Enforcement team and related stakeholders. It connects individuals struggling with trauma, addiction, mental health and/or homelessness whose actions result in bylaw infractions with critical supports.

Rapid Outreach Program: The program supports women experiencing mental health, addictions and homelessness and facing immediate danger due to escaping domestic violence. Offered immediately and up to one week, we address immediate needs, safety plan, offer temporary accommodation, system navigation and facilitate a warm handoff to long-term supports.

Newcomers Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (NTCI) Round 2 Extension: To provide crisis psychotherapy support in first-language within 24 hours for newcomer clients in immediate distress and emergencies.

The Circle of Wisdom Wellness Project: Implementing the Framework which is based on the Medicine Wheel concept in addressing emerging issues that are trauma informed and arising from Residential school Legacy and intergeneration trauma, allowing transformative and people centered healing for the Indigenous seniors.

Connect 2 Care: Is a multidisciplinary mobile outreach team that provides transitional case management, advocacy and care coordination for individuals in the immediate aftermath of a crisis who are unhoused or vulnerably housed, low-income and socially vulnerable with high acute care use. The C2C team works to improve coordination of services by bridging gaps between acute care and community health services to reduce unnecessary acute care and improve access to health and social supports.

Enhanced Crisis Supports for Those At-Risk of Suicide: This initiative provides immediate connection to a trained crisis line responder using multi-mode technology, 24/7/365 combined with evidence-based follow-up support to ensure individuals at risk of suicide experience compassionate and non-judgemental human connection while accessing the continuum of crisis and mental health supports.

We Are Together: Through a 24/7 Chinese Emotional Support Hotline, this initiative provides supportive listening in a culturally responsive way and connects callers with community services through 24/7 non-emergency response to crisis. 

Imminent Risk Crisis Navigation: This program improves the crisis response for adult individuals and their children who are at imminent risk of serious harm or homicide due to domestic violence and abuse, when there is no capacity in the shelter system. This initiative will provide wrap-around support, including safe accommodation, crisis support and systems navigation.

Multi-disciplinary Team (MDT) Coordination and Integrated Case Management: This initiative ensures that children and youth who have experienced abuse and their families receive a timely, integrated response throughout the investigation, judicial and therapeutic journey. It implements an integrated case management, client-centred approach to work with our partners in law enforcement, child protection, prosecution, mental health, medical and victim advocacy.

Collaborative Outreach Preventing Exploitation - Community Response Model Triage: The program supports youth aged 12-24 years, who are at risk of, or engaged in sexual exploitation within Calgary and surrounding areas. Through Calgary’s Community Response Model, the program provides a collaborative, coordinated and client centered approach to triage, case management and mental health supports that help youth and their families mitigate the risks associated with sexual exploitation both in the community and online.

Connections to Healing Program: The program is rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing that utilizes both Indigenous traditional teachings and western approaches to healing. It supports families and individuals who have experienced violence, abuse, grief and trauma who seek support and advocacy. The program offers means of connection and inclusion by utilizing the trauma counsellor Elders and staff.

Nisa Homes Remote Casework Program (RCP): This program provides support to vulnerable and Racialized women and children experiencing domestic violence and poverty through integrated case management services and remote casework.

Sahara Rapid Response: This project supports members of the South Asian community who struggle to access conventional support services. Our crisis response team, well-versed in South Asian traditions and collective consciousness, provides onsite immediate resource navigation, crisis counselling and are accessible outside of regular business hours through a rapid response phone line.

EXIT Program Crisis/Triage Initiative: This initiative facilitates and supports immediate safe exit from sexual exploitation for women age 16+ and their children with extremely high risk of violent victimization and who have suffered multiple traumas and victimizations. 

AFRICAN CRISIS HELPLINE: The Helpline provides 24/7 access to emergency and non-emergency support and outreach services for immigrants and newcomers in the African community facing family violence, including immediate access to shelter, translation services, a cultural response team and legal aid within the initial 24 hours of reaching out for support. The helpline connects victims with essential resources such as community leaders, police, social services, healthcare providers and other organizations.

BENCH 2: Building Equitable Newcomer Crisis Help: Newcomers face critical gaps in urgent crisis and mental health support disproportionate to general populations. BENCH is a joint venture to address this gap through culturally informed, collaborative primary and secondary crisis response service delivery. BENCH also engages in capacity-building, information exchange and research activities that increase the cultural responsiveness of services and systems to better accommodate the crisis needs of Calgary’s newcomers.

SEEDreach Mobile Health Advocacy and Addictions Program: This program provides integrated case management support for people experiencing poverty and homelessness, with a particular focus on the transient and unsheltered population. The program addresses gaps in the mental health system by targeting those not reached by traditional supports, assisting them in achieving greater wellness, stability and quality of life.

Action Table Calgary A new community approach helps Calgarians with multiple risk factors urgently needing help. The partnership between United Way of Calgary and Area, The City of Calgary and the Calgary Police Service (CPS) brings representatives from community agencies together to provide coordinated support services within 24 to 48 hours. 

Gendered Safety in Crisis Navigation: This program provides immediate professional support, information and referrals in a safe community environment to women and gender-diverse individuals in crisis and facing imminent crisis. Supports will be provided in a trauma-informed and person-centered manner, increasing the likelihood of de-escalation of behavioural incidents and creating connections to vital community services.

Strengthening Family and Youth Crisis Response: This program offers client-centered, trauma-informed and culturally-responsive crisis counseling and therapeutic support to all Calgarians. Individuals, youth and families access services via call, text, chat, by-appointment or walk-in with support available in their preferred language. The program extends in-home crisis support to families. 

HELP Team: To provide a trauma-informed, culturally aware and timely service that reaches individuals struggling with substance use at the street level. 

*Funding of this program is shared with The City of Calgary. The indicated funded amount reflects the contribution from the Calgary Police Service.

211/911 Outreach (HELP Expansion): Diverting 911 and 211 calls from unnecessary police response towards HELP and Ambassador teams for a more relevant response, city-wide. 

Calgary Community Court Support: Connecting individuals struggling with trauma, addiction, mental health and/or homelessness whose actions result in bylaw infractions with critical supports. This funding will supplement City support for Community Court by providing a Case Manager to coordinate supports from community partners and participants, and program evaluation support to measure program outcomes and impact. 

Missing Persons Indigenous Navigator: To address and prevent violence against Indigenous women and girls by reducing the number of missing Indigenous people reported and ensuring that the victims and families receive culturally appropriate supports, information and resources. 

CPS Member Training: Primary Crisis Response: Improves capacity of frontline members to acknowledge, respond to and manage mental health related incidents, as well as increase internal training capacity and offerings. 

CSIF Funding Analyst: Provides administrative leadership and general oversight to the implementation of CSIF. 

Older Adult Crisis Stabilization Outreach Team: Providing older adults experiencing homelessness, mental health and addictions challenges and complex needs with the necessary supports that allow them to transition to appropriate housing with wraparound services that create conditions to age well in community. 

Children's Cottage Society of Calgary, An Alberta Society

Heartstrings – Family Mental Health Crisis Support: Ensuring that parents experiencing a mental health crisis are provided with timely support that is designed to meet the needs of not only the individual but also their family members, keeping children safe and preserving the family in the process. 

211/911 Co-location: To imbed 211 call-takers in the 911 Centre to divert lower-risk mental health crisis calls away from emergency services. 

Immigrant Outreach Crisis Response: Providing East African refugees with complex mental health and psychosocial challenges with a trauma-informed and culturally appropriate crisis response that is rooted in community needs, reducing unnecessary engagement with emergency services including law enforcement. 

Community Connect YYC: Providing access to well-needed mental health and counselling supports, including case management, for those experiencing crisis and those providing primary response to those in need. 

Police and Crisis Team (PACT): Providing one clinician to a PACT team – a partnership between Recovery Alberta and Calgary Police Service that offers mental health assessment, support, and/or consultation in crisis situations and can arrange urgent psychiatry assessments and referrals as needed. 

Mobile Response Team (MRT): Providing clinicians to staff the MRT consult line – a resource for frontline police who encounter individuals experiencing mental health crises. 

East Calgary Ambassador Program: To support those most vulnerable in the community to access referrals and to help the communities to be safe and inclusive. 

Outreach and Cultural Reconnection: To ensure urban Indigenous peoples and unhoused community members have access to necessities, mental health support, cultural support and access to vital services after crisis. Ensuring community wellness and promoting access to community supports.

The Alex Street Team: To provide supports to street-involved people experiencing addiction and mental health issues. 

HELP Team: To provide a trauma-informed, culturally aware and timely service that reaches individuals struggling with substance use at the street level. *Funding of this program is shared with the Calgary Police Service. The indicated funded amount reflects the contribution from The City of Calgary. 

Ambassador Program: To increase the availability of non-emergency support and outreach services and to have a friendly presence in the greater downtown area.  

The Tapestry Project: Facilitating access to mental health support amongst members of Calgary’s diverse ethnocultural communities through community outreach, awareness raising, system navigation and capacity-building.  

Calgary Sexual Violence Crisis Response: To enhance sexual violence crisis services for individuals who have experienced a recent sexual assault, by providing information, options and advocacy that empower individual survivors to choose the path to healing that best fits for them in the context of their individual lives and values. 

Dermot Baldwin Way Response: Supporting homeless Calgarians in their journey towards finding stability and permanence in housing. 

Mental Health & Addictions Systems Navigation Support Program: This program provides assistance to clients who are struggling with mental health or addictions, helping them navigate Calgary's mental health and additions system, moving them forward in their housing and recovery journeys.

Sheldon Chumir Urgent Care Social Work Wrap-Around Care: To provide a responsive, expansive service for people in crisis, to address the systemic barriers those most vulnerable are having at accessing services in Calgary. 

Calgary Community Court (CCC): Is an innovative court diversion program created by Calgary Legal Guidance in conjunction with the Municipal Law and Enforcement team. It connects individuals struggling with trauma, addiction, mental health and/or homelessness that result in bylaw infractions with critical supports. 

Newcomers Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (NTCI) R2: To provide therapy support in first-language services for newcomer clients within the first 24 hours of receiving a referral and offer 24/7 support for newcomer youth referrals. 

Circle of Wisdom Wellness Project: Implementing the framework which is based on the Medicine Wheel concept in addressing emerging issues that are trauma informed which arise from residential school legacy and intergeneration trauma. 

Connect 2 Care: To provide timely crisis intervention for vulnerable Calgarians and to improve access to community services through care coordination and systems navigation. 

Enhanced Crisis Supports for Those At-Risk of Suicide: To provide immediate, single point, multiple modality access for Calgarians in suicidal crisis and their families and provide 24/7 wrap-around support to individuals at risk of suicide.

Community Information Exchange and Community Connect YYC Collaboration: A collaborative project to reduce siloed work through effective processes and technological integration. This collaboration aims to create a more integrated and impactful support system for individuals with complex needs. 

We Are Together: To provide supportive listening in a culturally responsive way and connect callers with community services through 24/7 non-emergency response to a crisis. 

EthioCare Crisis Outreach Worker: The Crisis Outreach Worker will meet with individuals/families in the community or at home to offer crisis intervention, information, referral, assistance and case management to address the crisis situation.

Crisis Line Enhancement: To increase accessibility of crisis lines by providing an option of online text-based crisis support. 

HomeFront's Client Engagement Team: Aims to connect with the identified complainant within 72 hours of charges being laid. This team specializes in early engagement and intervention, offering critical services such as safety planning, risk assessment, crisis intervention, community resource referrals, file coordination and support navigating at the pre-court phase. 

Road To Recovery (RTR): To provide culturally and linguistically responsive crisis response for East Africans residing in Calgary. 

Enhancing Unison's Elder Abuse Resource Line (EARL): To ensure that Black and Racialized seniors are appropriately supported when accessing the EARL line and that supports are available to a greater number of Calgarians.   

Prenatal Outreach Support Team (POST): A coordinated, multi-disciplinary approach connects clients to sustainable perinatal services and empowers clients to access supports that reduce risk to themselves, their pregnancy and their newborn(s). 

HERCONNECT: A community centered and community-driven program to address mental health and addiction issues among Black immigrant girls, women and their families.

Multi-disciplinary Team Coordinator and Integrated Case Management: To provide dedicated staffing responsible for integrated case management response to crisis. 

Collaborative Outreach Preventing Exploitation - Community Response Model Triage: To provide a collaborative and coordinated approach to triage and case management supports for youth at risk of or engaged in sexual exploitation in the city of Calgary.  

Nisa Homes - Remote Casework Program (RCP): To provide support to vulnerable and marginalized women experiencing domestic violence and poverty through outreach and remote casework. 

Sahara Rapid Response: To provide quick response to those from the South Asian community in immediate need of mental health and addiction counselling services. 

EXIT Program Crisis/Triage Initiative: To facilitate and support immediate safe exit from sexual exploitation for women age 16+ and their children. 

Clinical Support Associate (Peer Support program): To support the expanded crisis triage and emergency response for clients impacted by domestic violence across Calgary. 

Mental Health and Counselling for East African Communities: To provide comprehensive, culturally-informed crisis supports. 

BENCH: Building Equitable Newcomer Crisis Help: To increase engagement with and uptake of crisis services by providing equitable culturally and linguistically relevant primary crisis services for Black, Racialized and equity-seeking groups that address current barriers 

SEEDreach: To provide more accessible care to individuals experiencing crisis and streamline access to other services. 

Strengthening Family and Youth Crisis Response: To provide immediate and no-cost crisis support to clients from professional crisis counsellors to children, youth and families. 

$117,000

$905,718

Children's Cottage Society of Calgary, An Alberta Society

National Zakat Foundation 

Next Step Ministries Society 

• Distress Centre Calgary
• Calgary 9-1-1

• United Way of Calgary and Area 
• SORCe

• YouthLink
• Calgary Police Interpretive Centre