Calgary’s Mental Health and Addiction Funding Allocations
Calgary’s Mental Health and Addiction funding enhances support for existing evidence-based mental health and addiction programs, services and innovative ideas that bring change at the individual, family, community, policy or system levels.
The funding process is implemented through three streams, each with its own eligibility criteria.
Programs and Services: enhancements to existing evidence-based community programs and services that respond to the mental health and addictions related issues affecting Calgarians.
2025 - 2026 Connect the Dots! – Programs and Services
| Organization | Project name and description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Organization : Alexandra Community Health Centre |
Project name and description :
Youth Mental Health & Addiction Support Through Integrated and Enhanced Service Delivery: To provide individual and group mental health therapy within an Integrated Youth Services model to highly vulnerable youth aged 16-24. |
Funding amount : $356,165 |
| Organization : Autism Calgary Association |
Project name and description :
Telling Their Stories: Mental Health Recovery and Prevention for individuals and families living with ASD: To bridge the gap between peer support & professional counselling by providing supportive "Talk Support" and "Peer Mentorship" sessions to facilitate mental health for adults with Autism. |
Funding amount : $80,002 |
| Organization : Calgary Catholic Immigration Society |
Project name and description :
Family Focused Therapy Program: To provide culturally sensitive therapeutic counselling, support services and holistic referrals to newcomer children, youth and adults who have experienced trauma. |
Funding amount : $330,000 |
| Organization : Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association |
Project name and description :
Supports for Immigrants and Refugees with Mental Health and Addiction Issues: A Culturally Sensitive Approach: To strengthen supports for immigrants dealing with mental health and addictions issues through increased customized culturally sensitive counselling and mental health awareness campaigns. |
Funding amount : $124,540 |
| Organization : Calgary Public Library Foundation |
Project name and description :
Wellness Desk: To deliver mental health support via onsite social workers and service providers for vulnerable Calgarians confronting mental health and addictions challenges. |
Funding amount : $150,000 |
| Organization : Canadian Mental Health Association – Calgary Region |
Project name and description :
Recovery College Enhancement: To utilize Peer Support as an engagement and support mechanism for the delivery of Recovery-oriented mental health education (‘Recovery College’) to individuals and families in need. |
Funding amount : $250,000 |
| Organization : CanLearn Society for Persons with Learning Difficulties |
Project name and description :
Enhanced Multi-Level Social-Emotional Support for Our Community: To provide a multi-tiered support program that improves clients' ability to cope with stress and connects them to natural supports and resources within their community. |
Funding amount : $210,000 |
| Organization : Centre for Mental Health Equity (CMHE) |
Project name and description :
Community Helpers Program for Immigrants’ Resilience: To build community capacity and train “community helpers” within the Farsi-speaking communities who can support the resilience of other Calgarians in distress. |
Funding amount : $146,500 |
| Organization : Centre for Sexuality Society |
Project name and description :
2SLGBTQ+ Counselling and Natural Supports Program: To support 2S/LGBTQ+ mental health and wellbeing and enhance individual and community inclusion and resiliency. |
Funding amount : $85,000 |
| Organization : Circle of Wisdom Elder Senior Society |
Project name and description :
Keeping the Circle Strong: To support Calgary and area Indigenous Elders and seniors with traditional teachings and ceremonies, language advocacy, basic need referrals, interpersonal relationships and kinship development to decrease isolation, encourage community engagement and adopt positive change for the well-being of the family circle. |
Funding amount : $241,400 |
| Organization : Fear is Not Love Society |
Project name and description :
Enhancing Counselling Services for Individuals Experiencing and Perpetrating Domestic Violence and Abuse: To serve victims and perpetrators of domestic violence and abuse through Men's Counselling Service and Community Services Counselling Program. |
Funding amount : $144,625 |
| Organization : Hull Services |
Project name and description :
Bridging the Gap: To provide support, education and systems navigation to 16-24 year-olds who struggle with mental health concerns (self-identified or diagnosed). |
Funding amount : $211,975 |
| Organization : Hull Services |
Project name and description :
Mental Health and Addiction Systems Navigator: To help parents and caregivers of children and youth who are struggling with mental health and addictions concerns more effectively navigate the resources and supports available to them in their community. |
Funding amount : $115,805 |
| Organization : Immigrant Education Society (TIES), The |
Project name and description :
TIES Healthy Minds: Multi-Cultural Mental Health & Wellness Support: To provide multi-cultural mental health intervention that meets the psychological needs of newcomers and other vulnerable Calgarians through strategies that address service gaps and barriers. |
Funding amount : $200,000 |
| Organization : Immigrant Education Society (TIES), The |
Project name and description :
Tackling Newcomer Mental Health Needs by Linking All Cultures Equitably (LACE): To address persistent issues that impede newcomers from addressing their mental health and wellness needs by improving access to mental health resources, addressing service gaps, targeting high priority needs and creating systems change. |
Funding amount : $218,326 |
| Organization : Inn From the Cold Society |
Project name and description :
Mental Health Clinician: To enhance and expand health and wellness services for families experiencing homelessness through the provision of mental health support and recovery. |
Funding amount : $118,600 |
| Organization : Jewish Family Service (Calgary) |
Project name and description :
Coordinated Older Adult Mental Health and Addictions Response: To provide targeted wrap around support to address mental health, addictions, social impacts and physical health of older adults. |
Funding amount : $220,000 |
| Organization : Kindred Connections Society |
Project name and description :
Community Connect YYC- Enhancing Our Approach: To make access to timely, affordable mental health supports easy for Calgarians by providing a wide variety of affordable counselling services available via an easy-to-navigate website platform and empowering clients to choose the service that is right for them. |
Funding amount : $250,000 |
| Organization : McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association |
Project name and description :
Journey's - Addiction Support for Women: To provide services aimed at reducing risk factors and facilitating successful transitions through recovery by delivering intentional pre/post treatment and wraparound supports. |
Funding amount : $285,218 |
| Organization : Miskanawah Community Services Association |
Project name and description :
Nanatawiho Kamik (Cree for 'Healing Lodge'): To provide comprehensive mental health supports and services through a holistic, Indigenous lens for Indigenous peoples living in the city of Calgary. |
Funding amount : $300,000 |
| Organization : MPC Foundation |
Project name and description :
Enhanced From Night to Light Program: To empower seniors and older adults with knowledge, skills, tools and resources that promote strong mental health and resiliency. |
Funding amount : $48,752 |
| Organization : Northeast Addiction and Mental Health Centre for Holistic Recovery |
Project name and description :
Intensive Family Support Program: To implement a virtual Intensive Family Support Program (IFSP) to improve health outcomes for both mental health and addiction patients and their families. |
Funding amount : $122,200 |
| Organization : Pregnancy, Infant & Child Loss Support Centre |
Project name and description :
Journey through Grief: To provide mental health and grief recovery support to individuals experiencing long term trauma caused by miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death. |
Funding amount : $150,000 |
| Organization : RESET Society of Calgary |
Project name and description :
EXploitation Intervention & Transition (EXIT) Program: To provide immediate rapid-exit programming including housing, intensive case management and comprehensive wrap-around support to women and girls 16+ exiting sexual exploitation. |
Funding amount : $131,290 |
| Organization : Skipping Stone Scholarship Foundation |
Project name and description :
Mental Health and Peer Support: To deliver mental health and peer support programs that support trans and gender diverse individuals and their families. |
Funding amount : $205,000 |
| Organization : Trellis Society for Community Impact |
Project name and description :
Harm Reduction family Therapist: To provide therapeutic supports for families to increase mental wellness and adaptive skills and create environments for optimal individual and family development. |
Funding amount : $114,600 |
| Organization : Wood’s Homes |
Project name and description :
Inglewood Opportunity Hub Recovery Team: To provide one to one harm reduction support to individuals experiencing addictions concerns between the ages of 15-29. The specialist also facilitates psycho-social groups. |
Funding amount : $189,960 |
2024 - 2025 Connect the Dots! – Programs and Services
| Organization | Project name and description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Organization: Alexandra Community Health Centre |
Project name and description:
Youth Mental Health & Addiction Support Through Integrated and Enhanced Service Delivery: To provide individual and group mental health therapy within an Integrated Youth Services model to highly vulnerable youth aged 16-24. |
Funding amount: $356,165 |
| Organization: Autism Calgary Association |
Project name and description:
Telling Their Stories: Mental Health Recovery and Prevention for individuals and families living with ASD: To bridge the gap between peer support & professional counselling by providing supportive "Talk Support" and "Peer Mentorship" sessions to facilitate mental health for adults with Autism. |
Funding amount: $80,002 |
| Organization: Calgary Catholic Immigration Society |
Project name and description:
Family Focused Therapy Program: To provide culturally sensitive therapeutic counselling, support services and holistic referrals to newcomer children, youth and adults who have experienced trauma. |
Funding amount: $330,000 |
| Organization: Calgary Immigrant Women's Association |
Project name and description:
Supports for Immigrants and Refugees with Mental Health and Addiction Issues: A Culturally Sensitive Approach: To strengthen supports for immigrants dealing with mental health and addictions issues through increased customized culturally sensitive counselling and mental health awareness campaigns. |
Funding amount: $124,540 |
| Organization: Calgary Public Library Foundation |
Project name and description:
Wellness Desk: To deliver mental health support via onsite social workers and service providers for vulnerable Calgarians confronting mental health and addictions challenges. |
Funding amount: $150,000 |
| Organization: Canadian Mental Health Association - Calgary Region |
Project name and description:
Recovery College Enhancement: To utilize Peer Support as an engagement and support mechanism for the delivery of Recovery- oriented mental health education (‘Recovery College’) to individuals and families in need. |
Funding amount: $250,000 |
| Organization: Centre for Mental Health Equity (CMHE) |
Project name and description:
Community Helpers Program for Immigrants’ Resilience: To build community capacity and train “community helpers” within the Farsi-speaking communities who can support the resilience of other Calgarians in distress. |
Funding amount: $146,500 |
| Organization: Centre for Sexuality Society |
Project name and description:
2SLGBTQ+ Counselling and Natural Supports Program: To support 2S/LGBTQ+ mental health and wellbeing and enhance individual and community inclusion and resiliency. |
Funding amount: $85,000 |
| Organization: Circle of Wisdom Elder Senior Society |
Project name and description:
Keeping the Circle Strong: To support Calgary and area Indigenous Elders & seniors with traditional teachings and ceremonies, language advocacy, basic need referrals, interpersonal relationships and kinship development to decrease isolation, encourage community engagement and adopt positive change for the wellbeing of the family circle. |
Funding amount: $241,400 |
| Organization: Fear Is Not Love Society |
Project name and description:
Enhancing Counselling Services for Individuals Experiencing and Perpetrating Domestic Violence and Abuse: To serve victims and perpetrators of domestic violence and abuse through Men's Counselling Service and Community Services Counselling Program. |
Funding amount: $144,625 |
| Organization: Hull Services |
Project name and description:
Bridging the Gap: To provide support, education and systems navigation to 16-24 year-olds who struggle with mental health concerns (self-identified or diagnosed). |
Funding amount: $211,975 |
| Organization: Hull Services |
Project name and description:
Mental Health and Addiction Systems Navigator: To help parents and caregivers of children and youth who are struggling with mental health and addictions concerns more effectively navigate the resources and supports available to them in their community. |
Funding amount: $115,805 |
| Organization: Inn From the Cold Society |
Project name and description:
Mental Health Clinician: To enhance and expand health and wellness services for families experiencing homelessness through the provision of mental health support and recovery. |
Funding amount: $118,600 |
| Organization: Jewish Family Service (Calgary) |
Project name and description:
Coordinated Older Adult Mental Health and Addictions Response: To provide targeted wrap around support to address mental health, addictions, social impacts and physical health of older adults. |
Funding amount: $220,000 |
| Organization: Kindred Connections Society |
Project name and description:
Community Connect YYC- Enhancing Our Approach: To make access to timely, affordable mental health supports easy for Calgarians by providing a wide variety of affordable counselling services available via an easy-to-navigate website platform and empowering clients to choose the service that is right for them. |
Funding amount: $250,000 |
| Organization: McMan Youth, Family and Community Services Association |
Project name and description:
Journey's - Addiction Support for Women: To provide services aimed at reducing risk factors and facilitating successful transitions through recovery by delivering intentional pre/post treatment and wraparound supports. |
Funding amount: $285,218 |
| Organization: Miskanawah Community Services Association |
Project name and description:
Nanatawiho Kamik (Cree for 'Healing Lodge'): To provide comprehensive mental health supports and services through a holistic, Indigenous lens for Indigenous peoples living in the city of Calgary. |
Funding amount: $300,000 |
| Organization: MPC Foundation |
Project name and description:
Enhanced From Night to Light Program: To empower seniors and older adults with knowledge, skills, tools and resources that promote strong mental health and resiliency. |
Funding amount: $48,752 |
| Organization: Northeast Addiction and Mental Health Centre for Holistic Recovery |
Project name and description:
IFSP Enhancement - Scaling Peer Support and Evaluation: To implement a virtual Intensive Family Support Program (IFSP) to improve health outcomes for both mental health and addiction patients and their families. |
Funding amount: $122,200 |
| Organization: Pregnancy, Infant & Child Loss Support Centre |
Project name and description:
Journey through Grief: To provide mental health and grief recovery support to individuals experiencing long term trauma caused by miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death. |
Funding amount: $150,000 |
| Organization: RESET Society of Calgary |
Project name and description:
EXploitation Intervention & Transition (EXIT) Program: To provide immediate rapid-exit programming including housing, intensive case management and comprehensive wrap-around support to women and girls 16+ exiting sexual exploitation. |
Funding amount: $131,290 |
| Organization: Skipping Stone Scholarship Foundation |
Project name and description:
Mental Health and Peer Support: To deliver mental health and peer support programs that support trans and gender diverse individuals and their families. |
Funding amount: $205,000 |
| Organization: The Canlearn Society for Persons with Learning Difficulties |
Project name and description:
Enhanced Multi-Level Social-Emotional Support for Our Community: To provide a multi-tiered support program that improves clients' ability to cope with stress and connects them to natural supports and resources within their community. |
Funding amount: $210,000 |
| Organization: The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) |
Project name and description:
TIES Healthy Minds: Multi-Cultural Mental Health & Wellness Support: To provide multi-cultural mental health intervention that meets the psychological needs of newcomers and other vulnerable Calgarians through strategies that address service gaps and barriers. |
Funding amount: $200,000 |
| Organization: The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) |
Project name and description:
Tackling Newcomer Mental Health Needs by Linking All Cultures Equitably (LACE 3): To address persistent issues that impede newcomers from addressing their mental health and wellness needs by improving access to mental health resources, addressing service gaps, targeting high priority needs and creating systems change. |
Funding amount: $218,326 |
| Organization: Trellis Society for Community Impact |
Project name and description:
Harm Reduction family Therapist: To provide therapeutic supports for families to increase mental wellness and adaptive skills and create environments for optimal individual and family development. |
Funding amount: $114,600 |
| Organization: Wood's Homes |
Project name and description:
Inglewood Opportunity Hub Recovery Team: To provide one to one harm reduction support to individuals experiencing addictions concerns between the ages of 15-29. The specialist also facilitates psycho-social groups. |
Funding amount: $189,960 |
2022 - 2023 Connect the Dots! – Programs and Services
| Organization | Project name and description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Organization: Alberta Caregivers Association |
Project name and description:
Living Loss and Grief - A Journey to Awareness and Acceptance: To support caregivers to cope with loneliness, isolation and burnout. |
Funding amount: $117,000 |
| Organization: Alexandra Community Health Centre |
Project name and description:
Youth Mental Health and Addiction Integration: To provide individual and group mental health therapy within an Integrated Youth Service model to highly vulnerable youth aged 16-24. |
Funding amount: $342,000 |
| Organization: Antyx Community Arts Society |
Project name and description:
Natural Support Through Youth Community Art: To provide natural support programing through art/ hip hop projects that inspires youth to identify mental health supports in their community. |
Funding amount: $94,000 |
| Organization: Autism Calgary |
Project name and description:
Telling Their Stories: Pandemic Mental Health recovery and Prevention for individuals and families living with ASD: To bridge the gap between peer support & professional counselling by providing supportive "Talk Support" and "Peer Mentorship" sessions to facilitate mental health for adults with Autism. |
Funding amount: $80,002 |
| Organization: Big Brothers Big Sisters Society of Calgary and Area |
Project name and description:
Mental Health and Mentoring - Serving our Diverse Community: To build the capacity of staff, mentors and families in mental health resiliency to support children and youth from diverse communities, specifically racialized, Indigenous and sexually and gender diverse. |
Funding amount: $93,897 |
| Organization: Calgary Catholic Immigration Society |
Project name and description:
Centre for Refugee Resilience - Family Focused Therapy: To provide culturally sensitive therapeutic counseling, support services and holistic referrals to newcomer children, youth and adults who have experienced trauma. |
Funding amount: $299,435 |
| Organization: Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Society |
Project name and description:
Mental Health & Addictions Systems Navigation Support Program: To improve access to substance use disorder and mental health treatments for clients of the of Health Service program. |
Funding amount: $110,066 |
| Organization: Calgary Immigrant Women's Association |
Project name and description:
Supports for Immigrants and Refugees with Mental Health and Addictions Issues: To strengthen supports for immigrants dealing with mental health and addictions issues through increased customized culturally sensitive counselling and mental health awareness campaigns. |
Funding amount: $124,940 |
| Organization: Calgary Public Library Foundation |
Project name and description:
Wellness Desk: To deliver mental health support via onsite social workers and service providers for vulnerable Calgarians confronting mental health and addictions challenges. |
Funding amount: $130,000 |
| Organization: Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter Association |
Project name and description:
Strengthening Existing Crisis Support: To increase capacity of the Community Services Counselling Program to provide gender inclusive, response based and client-centered safety planning, case planning, wrap-around support, counselling and navigation of community resources. |
Funding amount: $144,625 |
| Organization: Canadian Mental Health Association - Calgary Region |
Project name and description:
Increasing Social Connections: To utilize Peer Support as an engagement and support mechanism for the delivery of Recovery-oriented mental health education (‘Recovery College’) to individuals and families in need. |
Funding amount: $250,000 |
| Organization: Centre for Sexuality Society |
Project name and description:
2S/LGBTQ+ Counselling and Support: To support 2S/LGBTQ+ mental health and wellbeing and enhance individual and community inclusion and resiliency. |
Funding amount: $85,000 |
| Organization: CUPS Calgary Society |
Project name and description:
Mental Health Support Groups: To provide grief & loss and Opioid Agonist Treatment-themed support groups for low- income and unstably housed Calgarians. |
Funding amount: $50,600 |
| Organization: Enviros Wilderness School Association |
Project name and description:
Respite Care Connection: To provide wellness and relief for parents caring for children with mental health and social challenges, while at the same time building social skills and friendships for the children. |
Funding amount: $150,000 |
| Organization: Hull Services |
Project name and description:
Bridging The Gap: to provide support, education and systems navigation to 16-24 year-olds who struggle with mental health concerns (self-identified or diagnosed). |
Funding amount: $211,975 |
| Organization: Jewish Family Service (Calgary) |
Project name and description:
Coordinated Older Adult Mental Health Response: To provide targeted wrap around support to address mental health, addictions, social impacts and physical health of older adults. |
Funding amount: $200,000 |
| Organization: McMann Youth, Family and Community Services Association |
Project name and description:
Journey's - Addiction Support for Women: to provide services aimed at reducing risk factors and facilitating successful transitions through recovery by delivering intentional pre/post treatment and wraparound supports. |
Funding amount: $285,218 |
| Organization: Miskanawah Community Services Association |
Project name and description:
Miskanawah Healing Lodge: To provide comprehensive mental health supports and services through a holistic, Indigenous lens for Indigenous peoples living in the city of Calgary. |
Funding amount: $300,000 |
| Organization: Northeast Addiction and Mental Health Centre for Holistic Recovery |
Project name and description:
Intensive Family Support Program: To implement a virtual Intensive Family Support Program (IFSP) to improve health outcomes for both mental health and addiction patients and their families. |
Funding amount: $90,200 |
| Organization: Pregnancy, Infant & Child Loss Support Centre |
Project name and description:
Journey through Grief: To provide mental health and grief recovery support to individuals experiencing long term trauma caused by miscarriage, stillbirth and infant death. |
Funding amount: $150,000 |
| Organization: Punjabi Community Health Services Calgary Society |
Project name and description:
Mental Health and Addiction Prevention Outreach Program: To provide community awareness, education and information to the South Asian community surrounding mental health, addiction and counselling services. |
Funding amount: $102,000 |
| Organization: RESET Society of Calgary |
Project name and description:
EXploitation Intervention & Transition (EXIT) Program: To provide immediate rapid-exit programming including housing, intensive case management and comprehensive wrap-around support to women and girls 16+ exiting sexual exploitation. |
Funding amount: $131,290 |
| Organization: Sagesse Domestic Violence Prevention Society |
Project name and description:
Peer Support Group & Individual Support Program: To provide group and individual support to vulnerable Calgarians impacted by domestic violence. |
Funding amount: $46,205 |
| Organization: Skipping Stone |
Project name and description:
Mental Health and Peer Support: To deliver mental health and peer support programs that support trans and gender diverse individuals and their families. |
Funding amount: $200,000 |
| Organization: Societe de la petite enfance et de la famille du sud de l'Alberta |
Project name and description:
Supporting Mental Health: to provide programs and workshops designed to provide a holistic approach to support Francophone families with their mental health and wellbeing. |
Funding amount: $52,000 |
| Organization: The Canlearn Society for Persons with Learning Difficulties |
Project name and description:
Multi-Level Social-Emotional Supporty: To provide a multi- tiered support program that improves clients' ability to cope with stress and connects them to natural supports and resources within their community. |
Funding amount: $190,000 |
| Organization: The Catholic Family Service of Calgary |
Project name and description:
Community Connect YYC Phase 3: To make access to affordable, timely mental health supports easier than ever at CommunityConnectYYC.ca, where clients can book a variety of counselling services 24/7 for diverse needs. |
Funding amount: $204,132 |
| Organization: The Immigrant Education Society (TIES) |
Project name and description:
Healthy Minds: Multi-Cultural Mental Health & Wellness Support: To provide multi-cultural mental health intervention that meets the psychological needs of newcomers and other vulnerable Calgarians through strategies that address service gaps and barriers. |
Funding amount: $200,000 |
| Organization: Trellis Society for Community Impact |
Project name and description:
Youth and Family Therapist: To provide therapeutic supports for families to increase mental wellness and adaptive skills and create environments for optimal individual and family development. |
Funding amount: $122,000 |
| Organization: Vecova Centre for Disability Services and Research |
Project name and description:
Vecova's Pan-Disability Mental Health Supports: To increase help for persons with disabilities in Calgary experiencing worsening mental health and difficulty accessing the services they need. |
Funding amount: $87,500 |
| Organization: Wood's Homes |
Project name and description:
Inglewood Opportunity Hub Addictions Specialist (Formerly Exit Youth Hub and Outreach Addictions Specialist): To provide one to one harm reduction support to individuals experiencing addictions concerns between the ages of 15-29. The specialist also facilitates psycho-social groups. |
Funding amount: $189,960 |
Fast Pilot Initiatives: innovative ideas that bring change at the individual, family, community and policy or system levels funded in partnership with the Community Investment Table.
2025 - 2026 Change Can't Wait! - Pilot Projects
| Organization | Project name and description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Organization : Calgary Immigrant Women’s Association |
Project name and description :
Mental Health Together: This pilot project will strengthen newcomer families’ mental health by increasing access to culturally responsive supports. |
Funding amount : $249,950 |
| Organization : Canadian Mental Health Association – Calgary Region |
Project name and description :
Community of Care: Survivors of Suicide Support Group: A peer-led mental health initiative for individuals impacted by suicide - through loss or personal experience. The project provides weekly, trauma-informed sessions focused on connection, healing and resilience. |
Funding amount : $139,781 |
| Organization : CanLearn Society for Persons with Learning Difficulties, The |
Project name and description :
Facing your Fears: A Pilot Intervention for Families with Anxious Kids: Youth receive psychoeducation related to anxiety and engage in cognitive-behavioural strategies to reduce anxiety symptoms and increase quality of life for them and their families. |
Funding amount : $36,000 |
| Organization : Niitoiyis Family Support Society |
Project name and description :
Circle of Support: A culturally rooted family initiative aimed at improving access to mental health and addiction support, as well as conducting research from an Indigenous lens. |
Funding amount : $94,200 |
| Organization : Skipping Stone Scholarship Foundation |
Project name and description :
Trans Resilience Circles: Access to specialized group therapy for Two-Spirit, trans and gender diverse community members who face disproportionate barriers to affirming mental health care. |
Funding amount : $70,000 |
| Organization : Starlings Community INC |
Project name and description :
Youth Can’t Wait: Peer Support & Mentorship for Youth Impacted by Parental Substance Use Loss: This project will pilot peer support group with built in mentorship for youth aged 14-24 who are experiencing grief related to parental substance use challenges, including the loss of a relationship due to substance use challenges and/or death of a parent. |
Funding amount : $59,234 |
| Organization : Umoja Community Mosaic |
Project name and description :
Building Resilience: Mental Wellness & Mentorship for Newcomer & Marginalized Children & Youth: Mental health workshops for newcomer and racialized youth, train coaches and volunteers to share mental health information and create a peer mentorship model where senior youth leaders support younger youth. |
Funding amount : $28,000 |
2023 - 2024 Change Can't Wait! - Pilot Projects
| Organization | Collaborative partners | Project name and description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Organization: Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Kitsii Gome Traditional Wellness / Healing Pilot Project: To offer holistic and traditional approaches to health and wellness paralleling western health and wellness approaches typically offered to the Indigenous population. |
Funding amount: $109,760 |
| Organization: Action Dignity Society |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Weave: Community Innovation: To enhance sector collaboration among ethnocultural communities and immigrant serving organizations by strengthening linkages, to maximize combined potential to drive collective impact and foster change in the mental health system of care. |
Funding amount: $175,000 |
| Organization: ANSWERS |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Sex Workers Effective & Efficient Together: To collaboratively identify gaps in service options and address the distinct barriers experienced by sex workers in Calgary in accessing services for mental health and social wellbeing. |
Funding amount: $243,365 |
| Organization: Calgary Silver Linings Foundation |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Advanced Eating Disorder Community Training Program: To create an interactive web based advanced eating disorder training program for multidisciplinary primary care and community providers in the Calgary area. |
Funding amount: $123,500 |
| Organization: Carya Society of Calgary |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Positive Fathering and Mental Health Integration: To offer mental health therapies to and support substance abuse treatment as required by fathers identified through Families Matters programs and complete a quasi-experimental evaluation to identify the extent to which improved paternal mental health and/or substance abuse management affect the risk of child maltreatment, fathers’ child custody and access arrangements and family court involvement. |
Funding amount: $293,815 |
| Organization: Converge Mental Health Coalition Inc. |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Development of a Universal Framework for Standardized Support Services for Children and Youth: To identify the skills, knowledge and competencies required to support adolescent mental health (ages 12-18) through the education system, resulting in a preparatory standardized program for student services and improved navigation of the mental health and wellness system for students and families. |
Funding amount: $145,331 |
| Organization: Lionheart Foundation |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Improving Mental Health Treatment for Black and Racialized Youth: To improve clinical practices of Lionheart network therapists and those within AHS when it comes to serving the needs of Black and Racialized youth facing mental health issues. |
Funding amount: $75,000 |
| Organization: North of McKnight Communities Society |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Building Mental Health Resiliency in Visible Minority Seniors & Women: To address the mental health needs of visible minority seniors and women living in the North of McKnight Blvd area through socializing activities, peer support, counselling and referral services for participants and educational training workshops and awareness events for natural supporters and the community at large. |
Funding amount: $143,435 |
| Organization: Recovery Acres |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Innovative Paths to Independence: Empowering Recovery, Promoting Agency and Revolutionizing Employment Solutions: To improve addiction recovery outcomes by empowering individuals with barriers to meaningful employment by leveraging community and employer involvement to break down stigma while promoting a more compassionate and supportive community. |
Funding amount: $120,000 |
| Organization: Skipping Stone Scholarship Foundation |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Trans Music and Voice: To foster resiliency through building community, connection and confidence in trans and gender diverse children, youth and adults through various forms of musical expression. |
Funding amount: $75,000 |
| Organization: Innovate Calgary |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
The Whole Entrepreneur: Incorporating Mental Wellness into Programming for Entrepreneurs Solving Social Problems: To provide mental health support through clinical services, knowledge sharing, stigma reduction and capacity building for social innovators as well as the social innovation support ecosystem. |
Funding amount: $103,966 |
| Organization: Vecova Centre for Disability Services and Research |
Collaborative partners:
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Project name and description:
Trauma Counseling Collaboration: To address the need for longer term, barrier free trauma counselling services in the Calgary Community. |
Funding amount: $204,700 |
| Organization: | Collaborative partners: |
Project name and description:
Total 2023 Change Can't Wait! Mental Health and Addiction Investment Framework Allocations |
Funding amount: $1,812,872 |
Targeted Projects: initiatives designed in partnership with city administration and strategy groups to address system-level gaps to support a specific action of Calgary’s Mental Health and Addiction Strategy.
2026 - Targeted Investment
| Organization | Project name and description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Organization : Calgary Construction Association |
Project name and description :
The Tailgate Toolkit: This program offers on-site resources to reduce substance misuse in construction, including supervisor training and support materials for safer workplaces. |
Funding amount : $288,803 |
| Organization : Calgary Counselling Centre |
Project name and description :
Workplace Mental Health Navigator: This program serves as a resource to employers who have employees in need of mental health and/or addiction services. It will allow for faster and better matched access to mental health care, improving quality of life and wellbeing. |
Funding amount : $134,150 |
| Organization : Carya Society of Calgary |
Project name and description :
Calgary Community Development Learning Initiative: Building the capacity of Calgary's community development sector by providing training and learning opportunities for both residents and sector workers. |
Funding amount : $50,000 |
2025 - Targeted Investment
| Organization | Project name and description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Organization : ADVANIS |
Project name and description :
Mental Health of Calgarians Survey |
Funding amount : $90,000 |
| Organization : Calgary Counselling Centre |
Project name and description :
Workplace Mental Health Navigator: This program serves as a resource to employers who have employees in need of mental health and/or addiction services. It will allow for faster and better matched access to mental health care, improving quality of life and wellbeing. |
Funding amount : $130,450 |
| Organization : Carya Society of Calgary |
Project name and description :
Calgary Community Development Learning Initiative: Building the capacity of Calgary's community development sector by providing training and learning opportunities for both residents and sector workers. |
Funding amount : $50,000 |
| Organization : United Way of Calgary and Area |
Project name and description :
Connections First Natural Supports Summit: A one-day summit hosted by the Natural Supports Leadership Table focused on the importance of natural supports and the critical role we all play in building naturally supportive communities. |
Funding amount : $10,000 |
2024 – Targeted Investment
| Organization | Project name and description | 2024 |
|---|---|---|
| Organization : Action Dignity Society |
Project name and description
:
Youth Weave: To increase the knowledge of children, youth, and their families about mental health, mental illness and when to seek help and to improve grassroots support through peer/natural supports towards positive mental health and access to trauma-informed care and supports. |
2024 : $200,000 |
| Organization : Calgary Construction Association |
Project name and description
:
The Tailgate Toolkit: This program offers on-site resources to reduce substance misuse in construction, including supervisor training and support materials for safer workplaces. |
2024 : $282,613 |
| Organization : Calgary Counselling Centre |
Project name and description
:
Workplace Mental Health Navigator: This program serves as a resource to employers who have employees in need of mental health and/or addiction services. It will allow for faster and better matched access to mental health care, improving quality of life and wellbeing. |
2024 : $130,450 |
2023 – Targeted Investment
| Organization | Project name and description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Organization : Action Dignity Society |
Project name and description
:
Youth Weave: To increase the knowledge of children, youth, and their families about mental health, mental illness, and when to seek help and to improve grassroots support through peer/natural supports towards positive mental health and access to trauma-informed care and supports. |
Funding amount: $200,000 |
| Organization : Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Society |
Project name and description
:
Mental Health & Addictions Systems Navigation Support Program: This program provides compassionate and knowledgeable assistance to clients, helping them navigate Calgary’s mental health & addictions system, which allows them to carry out their addiction/mental health care treatment plan and move them forward in their housing and recovery journeys. |
Funding amount: $440,063 |
| Organization : Distress Centre Calgary |
Project name and description
:
Enhanced Connections between Health and Community: Closed Loop Referral Pilot: Connecting Primary Care Network patients to resources that may improve their social determinants of health through a closed loop referral process with 211. |
Funding amount: $94,881 |
| Organization : The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education |
Project name and description
:
Optimizing School-based Mental Health Interventions for Calgary students: A three-year project to develop and implement school-based mental health assessments and interventions for adolescents in Calgary with emergent emotional and behavioural issues. |
Funding amount: $225,000 |
2022 – Targeted Investment
| Organization | Project name and description | Funding amount |
|---|---|---|
| Organization: Distress Centre Calgary, 211, Calgary Foothills Primary Care Network and Alberta Health Services. |
Project name and description:
Enhanced Connections between Health and Community: Closed Loop Referral Pilot: Connecting Primary Care Network patients to resources that may improve their social determinants of health through a closed loop referral process with 211. |
Funding amount: $94,881 |
| Organization: University of Calgary –The Mathison Centre for Mental Health Research & Education & Calgary Board of Education. |
Project name and description:
Optimizing School-based Mental Health Interventions for Calgary students: A three-year project to develop and implement school-based mental health assessments and interventions for adolescents in Calgary with emergent emotional and behavioural issues. |
Funding amount: $471,525 |