Active projects

This project will create and develop harm reduction and stigma toolkits, which will help raise awareness and capacity of front-line staff and management providing services to people who use drugs in the York Region of Ontario. This project will also allow the organization to deliver a range of in-person services and provide harm reduction supplies such as naloxone and drug checking kits, and will also allow the organization to expand its online chat to a 24/7 service.

Project duration: March 15, 2023 to March 31, 2025

The project will develop and implement an Opioid Overdose Response Training initiative as an enhancement to its existing CPR Program that is offered in high schools across the country and supported by the respective Ministries of Education. It is aimed at students who will take this training into their present and future lives, preparing them for emergencies they may encounter at home and in the community.

Project duration: January 19, 2021 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will provide a mobile outreach service to increase access to harm reduction services and wraparound care supports in the rural areas of Clarenville and Bonavista.

Project duration: June 1, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This project will deliver prevention programming and intervention services for 450 youth aged 10 to 22, their parents and local community service providers in Port Alberni and on the west coast of Vancouver Island, including Tofino and Ucluelet. Services will include social and recreational programming such as resiliency and overdose prevention workshops for youth, schools, service providers, parents, and caregivers.

Project duration: August 24, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will enhance community outreach and eventually establish an accessible peer-led drug checking service with wraparound health supports. All from one mobile site, people who are using drugs will have access to information needed to help reduce their risks of overdose as well as access peer support and traditional clinical supports.

Project duration: August 10, 2022 to January 15, 2024

This project will develop a mentorship program among family physicians and other primary healthcare professionals in Alberta to enhance expertise in treating patients with chronic pain and/or substance use disorder.

Project duration: July 23, 2020 to July 15, 2023

This project will work with partner organizations to enhance and complement existing harm reduction services in 10 communities in Alberta dealing with a growing demand for harm reduction services. Those communities will include Calgary, Medicine Hat, Lethbridge, Edmonton, Fort McMurray, Grande Prairie, Hinton, Edson, Whitecourt, Jasper and Red Deer.

Project duration: February 14, 2023 to February 28, 2025

This project will support and offer Indigenous-based programs to Indigenous youth (12-18 years old) and their families dealing with polysubstance use across northern Alberta. Seventy-five staff will be trained on matters affecting Indigenous families and on Indigenous culture and history.

Project duration: August 10, 2022 to January 31, 2024

This project aims to increase the outreach for people who are experiencing barriers to accessing addiction medicine and wraparound psychosocial supports.

Project duration: April 20, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This project will support a mobile harm reduction van that will operate in five Cape Breton communities to deliver harm reduction resources, safe consumption supplies, and naloxone training, as well as provide access to a public health nurse and housing support worker.

Project duration: June 20, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This project aims to reach under served populations of people who use drugs through harm reduction and overdose prevention education and training videos, including people in rural communities, Indigenous and Métis people, 2SLGBTQIA+ people and youth. The additional funding will extend the project by nine months, increase the availability of peer navigators, and enhance harm reduction, outreach and community coordination services.

Project duration: March 20, 2020 to March 31, 2023

This initiative will develop a curriculum for future physicians in the diagnosis, treatment and management of pain.

Project duration: November 1, 2018 to October 31, 2023

This project will develop a capacity building knowledge translation team that will provide training, written and digital resources, implementation support, and policy development for new and emerging safer supply initiatives in Canada. The SAFER KTE project will offer to support the development, implementation and evaluation of safe supply projects to communities or programs in Canada requesting it.

Project duration: August 15, 2022 to October 31, 2023

This initiative will build on the experiences of the Victoria SAFER Initiative (VSI). VSI is an existing comprehensive and flexible safer supply model with health care provider oversight which provides pharmaceutical alternatives for people at increased risk of overdose.

Project duration: July 6, 2022 to January 1, 2024

This project will develop a community-based safer supply model in rural and regional British Columbia. This model would provide pharmaceutical alternatives to the toxic drug supply and enhance community care and social supports. The initial focus will be on the delivery of a fentanyl patch program to participants at high risk of opioid overdose across Campbell River, the Comox Valley and Port Hardy for whom current harm reduction and treatment interventions are inadequate or inaccessible.

Project duration: August 23, 2022 to January 24, 2024

This project will deliver a community-based, flexible safer supply model with health care provider oversight in order to address the increased risk of overdose posed by the toxic illegal drug supply. The initiative will also help people who have not responded to other types of treatment, as well as those who have been difficult to reach and engage through traditional public health and addiction treatment measures.

Project duration: July 23, 2020 to March 31, 2023

This project will develop the first "National Guideline for the Clinical Management of High-Risk Drinking and Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD)". The guideline will help Canadian health care providers quickly identify and address harmful drinking, and treat and support patients throughout their lifetime.

Project duration: September 1, 2020 to November 30, 2023

This peer-led project will use an existing toolkit to train peer support workers in British Columbia, building their capacity to serve mothers with lived and/or living experience of substance use who are at risk of having their child taken from their care.

Project duration: June 29, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This initiative aims to develop a peer support program using a continuum of care approach beginning with harm reduction and incorporating a supportive treatment program and opportunities in the community allowing individuals to gain skills for employment and sober living.

Project duration: June 15, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will add a nurse as well as a peer harm reduction care team to an existing drop-in program for people who are experiencing homelessness and who use substances which will allow the organization to be able to provide services such as basic medical care, access to harm reduction information and supplies, individual and group peer support, mental health counselling, and system navigation and referral services.

Project duration: February 24, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will conduct qualitative in-depth interviews with health care and social service providers, decision-makers, and people with lived and living experience of substance use; deliver harm reduction training for social service providers and decision-makers; host public education events on substance use; and offer a Street College training program.

Project duration: May 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will support middle and secondary school-based events and build teacher capacity related to substance use. Through this funding, the organization will be able to launch its ''Youth in Action'' campaign including planning and hosting health-related activities.

Project duration: March 8, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative will recruit and give peers the necessary tools to improve communication skills and harm reduction skills.

Project duration: June 21, 2022 to December 20, 2023

The project will develop a training program for Canadian health professionals with information on the assessment and management of ADHD, problematic substance use, social-cultural considerations, pharmacological management, psychosocial treatments, marginalization and discrimination, and motivational interviewing.

Project duration: March 6, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project would develop evidence-based Best Practices for youth and adults with FASD with substance use issues in treatment programs, to decrease the number of drop-outs and ultimately to improve outcomes for this population.

Project duration: August 17, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This project will develop and provide bilingual plain-language products for frontline health and social and harm reduction workers across Canada that will synthesize the latest knowledge and evidence found on harm reduction and substance use.

Project duration: February 16, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative will implement an opioid harm reduction strategy for apprentices working in construction trades in Canada, co-developed with the Canadian Armed Forces, the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety, and Canada's Building Trade Unions.

Project duration: June 9, 2022 to December 15, 2023

This project seeks to build skills of CAPUD members, the broader community of people who use substances, decision makers and health care providers to better engage with one another. This would ensure that the voice of people who use substances is reflected in harm reduction and treatment services and strategies.

Project duration: May 19, 2021 to March 31, 2024

The project would create, implement and evaluate a national tobacco cessation social marketing campaign. The project will reach and encourage quit attempts among the 2.6 million Canadians aged 35-64 who continue to smoke with the long-term goal of driving down tobacco use in pursuit of Canada's goal of less than 5% tobacco prevalence rate by 2035.

Project duration: March 16, 2021 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will implement a community-based, multi-agency recovery Hub where service providers can offer assessments, referrals, peer support, education, harm reduction, clinical services and initiate treatment.

Project duration: April 30, 2020 to July 31, 2023

This initiative will equip peer support workers with training and certification required to assist and train organizations dealing with concerns around substance use in the Waterloo Wellington region.

Project duration: June 10, 2022 to December 10, 2023

This project is proposing to bring together professionals, practitioners and organizations from public health, public safety, and other allied sectors to enhance their knowledge and capacity to implement a public health approach to cannabis, opioids and other substances using stigma reduction and trauma- and violence-informed approach frameworks.

Project duration: January 2, 2020 to December 31, 2023

In partnership with St. John Ambulance (SJA), the project will improve access to naloxone, reduce the barriers to opioid poisoning awareness, and help Canadians in all communities better understand how to help someone suffering from an opioid poisoning, with a specific focus on improving access for populations in rural, remote, isolated and otherwise underserved communities.

Project duration: January 26, 2021 to March 31, 2024

This project will engage with people with lived and living experience (PWLLE) of substance use in Sydney, and the Cape Breton Regional Municipality. Community partners will be offered capacity building training to reduce stigma, and PWLLE of substance use will participate in training programs to acquire the skills needed for employment in the substance use sector as peer support workers.

Project duration: May 16, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will develop and provide peer-led support groups across Canada for individuals who have attention-deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and who use substances or have a substance use disorder (SUD). Delivered in a non-clinical environment, the groups will take place biweekly in five different time zones across the country. They will provide emotional support, mentorship for participants, education about ADHD, as well as strategies to help participants manage some of the main symptoms that have led to substance use.

Project duration: February 27, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project seeks to develop greater understanding of the impacts of vaping on the health of people who smoke cigarettes or use other tobacco products, and people who do not. This information will help address scientific uncertainty related to vaping, and improve communication about the health hazards of vaping – particularly for youth and people who do not smoke – and potential benefits of vaping products for people who smoke.

Project duration: December 23, 2022 to March 31, 2024

This project aims to build primary care capacity to care for patients in a compassionate and effective manner by establishing adaptive mentoring networks in Newfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick and British Columbia.

Project duration: April 13, 2021 to March 31, 2025

This project aims to develop or adapt a tool for the management of chronic non-cancer pain (CNCP) that can be integrated into providers' electronic medical records.

Project duration: April 1, 2022 to March 31, 2025

This project will expand clinical and outreach services at the Centre's existing Urban Health Program for individuals who use the toxic street drug supply in downtown Ottawa. This program will provide primary care, mental health and addictions services, harm reduction, case management, care coordination, system navigation, referrals to wraparound services, coaching, counselling and practical support.

Duration of project: March 13, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project aims to promote harm reduction services and lower the risks of opioid overdose for residents of four homeless shelters located in the Toronto communities of Landsowne, Bloor, Roncesvalle and Rexdale. Specifically, the project will work with both men and women throughout their stay in shelters and help them as they transition into permanent housing in the community.

Project duration: February 27, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative aims to equip Indigenous people with lived or living experience (PWLLE) of substance use and peer navigators with the skills to provide culturally appropriate harm reduction services.

Project duration: July 14, 2022 to January 15, 2024

This project will provide continued care to individuals who have experienced an overdose. A team including a firefighter, a counselor from the health authority, and a peer with lived experience will visit the individual at home to provide them with resources regarding harm reduction, treatment and recovery programs, and offer referrals and linkages to care.

Project duration: July 11, 2022 to December 15, 2023

This low-barrier community-based iOAT pilot will be embedded into an existing opioid agonist treatment (OAT) clinic in downtown Toronto, Ontario called "The Works". This pilot will target individuals whose needs are not currently being met by existing OAT, supervised consumption services, and/or other safer supply interventions currently available in Toronto, and who continue to be at high risk for overdose.

Project duration: April 9, 2021 to March 31, 2023

This initiative will add a peer-led component to existing mobile substance use outreach service for homeless and those at risk of homelessness in the rural communities of the Comox Valley. Through the mobile health care unit, individuals will have access to outreach services such as harm reduction education, mental health supports, crisis stabilization, navigation services, and health assessments.

Project duration: March 15, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will expand a program that provides culturally appropriate pathways to care for people of South Asian descent experiencing mental health and substance use issues. Services will include bridging services, peer support services, and culturally appropriate support services, such as CBT, harm reduction education as well as relapse prevention.

Project duration: February 27, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will expand CUPS' existing Opioid Agonist Therapy (OAT) program with a new, lower barrier mobile service that can provide OAT services and access to peer recovery coaches. The project aims to connect with the hard-to-reach opioid users, who tend to face barriers to recovery.

Project duration: June 29, 2022 to December 15, 2023

This project will provide additional resources to youth, parents, caregivers, healthcare professionals and decision-makers related to safe and effective use of opioids to help manage acute and chronic pain in children and adolescents (15-24 years of age). The project will specifically create a working group, develop knowledge products/resources, and support healthcare professional education related to prescribing and use of opioids for acute and chronic pain in youth.

Project duration: December 2, 2022 to March 31, 2024

This project will allow the organization to hire additional therapists at several hospital emergency departments in Metro Vancouver to provide at-risk youth admitted for self-harm, psychosis, and overdose with trauma-informed care. The program will connect youth to a range of services, including prescribed opioids (safer supply) and Suboxone assisted tapering as warranted. Once stabilized, youth will enter the organization's core counselling program.

Project duration: February 16, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative will apply an existing mobile-optimized web application to engage people working in physically demanding industries in reducing stigma and supporting positive health behaviours related to opioid use. Focusing on individuals living with pain as well as those who work in physically demanding industries, the project will support, in its first stage, men between 25 and 54.

Project duration: March 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025

The project proposes to implement an inter-sectoral, community-based, outreach initiative for concurrent disorders.

Project duration: August 12, 2020 to August 31, 2023

This initiative will allow the organization to expand its Peer Program by hiring a Skills Development and Programming Coordinator and 10 Community Peer Workers in two Downtown Eastside Women's Centre shelter locations. Mainly led by women with lived or living experience, the program will offer services such as outreach to other organizations for supports, access to daily meals, safe services for pregnant women, medical services, as well as harm reduction supplies.

Project duration: March 8, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative aims to build the capacity of frontline health care professionals, Indigenous and non-Indigenous service providers, and community organizations to provide culturally relevant, strengths based, stigma-free harm reduction services for Indigenous people across Canada. This Indigenous-led project will co-create and nationally disseminate knowledge bundles for Indigenous and non-Indigenous harm reduction organizations filling a gap in the provision of culturally sensitive products for Indigenous Peoples.

Project duration: March 9, 2022 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will add a peer support component to an existing Eastern Health mobile harm reduction team pilot in the greater metro area of St. John's, Newfoundland. This will enable the organization to provide services to vulnerable individuals who are precariously housed, and to homeless individuals accessing shelters or sleeping on the streets.

Project duration: March 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative aims to address a gap in suitable supports for women involved in the criminal justice system with addictions by supporting them in adhering to their discharge conditions; continuing and/or enrolling in opioid agonist treatment in a supportive environment; and preparing for clinical addictions treatment.

Project duration: July 15, 2022 to October 15, 2023

This project will interface with people who have overdosed in the emergency room setting so that they are immediately linked with a network of aftercare services.

Project duration: March 20, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This project will build on the organization's existing court programs through the Criminal Court by providing a peer led outreach program for people who use drugs and who are involved with the criminal courts system.

Project duration: May 1, 2022 to July 31, 2023

This project will provide rapid access, long-term addictions care to people who have gained employment through the EMBERS Eastside Works program in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and are now ready to address their addictions in order to maintain their employment and stabilize their overall lives. Eastside Works is a low-barrier income generation hub pilot program that finds suitable work for individuals, most of whom live with substantial substance use and mental health issues. Key activities would include the provision of evidence-based treatment such as opioid agonist treatment, group therapy, and ongoing case management.

Project duration: April 19, 2021 to March 31, 2024

This project will provide wraparound services to people with Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) who use substances and have had prior contact with the Saskatchewan justice system. These services include harm reduction services in a location easy to access. This project will also provide training to workers in health and social services organizations on trauma-informed approaches to better support people with FASD.

Project duration: August 31, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will develop a peer support model that engages the urban Indigenous population with lived and living experience of alcohol and substance use in the St. John's metro region. Working alongside Elders to ensure traditional knowledge, staff members will receive peer support training, information on cultural awareness, mental health first aid, applied suicide intervention skills training, and training on harm reduction approaches.

Project duration: March 9, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative will develop an Indigenous-led in-community treatment program that will leverage intensive case management to provide wraparound support and facilitate multi-level interventions through therapy sessions and teaching by local Elders.

Project duration: June 21, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This project will pilot enhanced mobile community treatment services in rural and remote Indigenous communities near Winnipeg, building local capacity to work with people who use substances. The project will expand on the opioid agonist therapy program (OAT) launched in Red Sucker Lake during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Project duration: July 1, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will expand and standardize the Trauma and Resiliency Informed Practice (TRIP) program, developed by Fraser Health Authority in partnership with the Mental Health Commission of Canada, to reduce stigma and improve care by teaching health and social workers about self-compassion and trauma-informed practice.

Project duration: June 14, 2022 to December 15, 2023

This project will develop a podcast on overdose prevention for men aged 18 to 59 years working in the trades and struggling with substance use. The podcast will engage in healthy conversations led by both peers and experts.

Project duration: February 14, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will develop video case studies that will collect, through interviews, the experiences of people who use drugs and have received emergency room care in hospitals in Ontario. Led by people who use drugs, the conversations will enable the organization to identify existing barriers to health care for people who use drugs in the represented communities of North Cumberland, Peel Region, Brantford/Hamilton, Ottawa, London, Middlesex County/St. Thomas and Northern Ontario. This funding will also allow the organization to carry out interviews with emergency health care professionals.

Project duration: March 7, 2023 to March 31, 2025

Two interventions to address substance use:

1. The Buffalo Riders School Program (BR) which is a strength based indigenous early intervention program developed by the National Native Addictions Partnership Foundation; and 2) A Screening, Brief Interventions and Referral (SBIR) to address problematic alcohol use and mental health concerns in primary health care settings.

Project duration: August 9, 2021 to March 31, 2024

This project aims to provide care to street-involved individuals and improve access to supports for vulnerable individuals with substance use disorders, by providing prevention, harm reduction, and treatment services; and expanding the capacity of services to reach people throughout the Northwest Territories. Through the funding, the organization will be able to expand its street nursing outreach, add peer support workers, and give access to art therapy program for regular participants.

Project duration: January 23, 2023 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will standardize mental wellness psychosocial treatment services for Yukoners in urban, rural and remote settings, by adopting and providing training in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), a mental health wellness service where a mental health clinician helps clients work towards achieving their own goals and living according to their own values.

Project duration: July 19, 2022 to January 1, 2024

This project will hire a social worker who will deliver system navigation services, in an outreach setting, to people who use substances. Other provided services will include intensive case management, cognitive behaviours therapy (CBT) groups for people accessing opioid agonist treatment (OAT), information on available supports, assistance on how to access drug coverage and disability services, financial management, and other psychological supports to enhance wellness.

Project duration: February 2, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will implement a safe supply pilot that will provide assessment, monitoring and prescriptions for daily-dispensed take-home oral hydromorphone to eligible participants. It will also provide participants with wraparound support to prevent overdose deaths and harms.

Project duration: July 26, 2022 to December 31, 2023

Grenfell Ministries, in partnership with the Universities of Calgary and Alberta and BRAVE technology co-op, have created a toll-free National Overdose Response Service for individuals who use drugs alone. The portion of the initiative funded by SUAP will serve to enhance this service by: 1) building on the infrastructure to enable BRAVE to support the project end-to-end, with a custom-designed system, 2) supporting the development of a variety of knowledge products, including guidelines for using technology-based harm reduction services which will be developed in conjunction with the Canadian Research Initiative in Substance Misuse (CRISM) and 3) evaluating the initiative.

Project duration: April 23, 2021 to March 31, 2023

This project will provide substance use and mental health services in Indigenous Health Centres in two remote Ontario First Nation communities (Saugeen First Nation and Neyaashiinigmiing) experiencing high rates of substance use. The services will include providing direct access to primary care providers who can prescribe medication to support opioid and alcohol withdrawal management, offering mobile prescription deliveries and home visits, supporting peer outreach workers, and providing harm reduction services such as overdose prevention, naloxone kits and access to safer drug use supplies, such as clean needles or pipes.

Project duration: August 31, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This initiative will increase the capacity of the current safer supply program and provide wraparound care for participants.

Project duration: April 1, 2021 to March 31, 2023

This initiative will hire an addiction navigator to provide harm reduction and treatment supports to individuals experiencing homelessness in Hamilton, Ontario. Led by a person with lived experience, the program will focus on navigating addiction and mental health services. Taking a collaborative approach, the Navigator will help integrate all crisis response programs within the Crisis Response Branch of the Hamilton Police.

Project duration: March 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative is a new safer opioid supply (SOS) program for people in Hamilton with chronic opioid or stimulant use disorders. The program will also support clients seeking medical services, such as wound care, chronic pain services, opioid agonist therapies, withdrawal clinics, residential treatment centres, nutrition, chiropody, and dental clinics. It will also serve as a pathway to social services such as counseling and housing support.

Project duration: February 13, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will: 1) scan and identify the needs of youths at risk for substance use; and 2) identify activities which reduce the risk of substance use among youth. Through the research, the organization will explore youths' interests in program options and delivery strategies as well as recommendations to help address the risk of harmful substance use among youth in the community.

Project duration: April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024

This project will mobilize long-term, system-level change to reduce barriers to critical supports for people who use substances in Calgary and Southern Alberta. This project will develop the capacity, skills and knowledge of staff, peer workers and leadership professionals to implement policy and practice guidelines.

Project duration: April 30, 2021 to March 31, 2023

This project will launch a substance use education, awareness and prevention campaign for black francophone young women and mothers of African origin located in Toronto's Scarborough neighborhood. This campaign will provide training, workshops, and resources on substance use and mental health to help equip participants with the knowledge and skills needed to prevent substance use, and educate them on different resources about how to seek help as well as address stigma around mental illness and substance use.

Project duration: August 15, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project aims to train and support community-based healthcare providers on methamphetamine-induced psychosis assessments, medication-assisted withdrawal and detoxification, and traditional and land-based healing support for community members.

Project duration: June 1, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This will be the first Toronto-based safer supply project to support individuals who not only rely on opioids, but also stimulants and alcohol. This project will specifically target individuals who are living in shelters, encampments, and other homeless settings by providing them with a flexible drop-in style clinic. Through this safer supply service model, patients will have access to life-saving drugs, peer support and a team of trained physicians, nurses, and support staff.

Project duration: March 10, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This 3-week online program will allow women unable to attend in-person treatment to access workshops, group discussion, one-on-one counselling, and at-home practice and activities. Topics include self-esteem, healthy relationships, managing emotions, effective communication, health and wellness, safe coping skills, parenting, grief and loss, as well as trauma.

Project duration: March 10, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will pilot a harm reduction focused, peer and addictions counsellor-led support group and drop-in program for individuals who use substances. This project will provide a safe space for people who use substances to receive evidence-based and person centered programming focused on harm reduction and safe usage. It will also promote connection with other community services and supports.

Project duration: April 23, 2021 to March 31, 2023

This initiative will create a culturally sensitive program for men from First Nations communities who use drugs and who have been in contact with the law, in the Winnipeg area.

Project duration: April 1, 2020 to June 30, 2023

This initiative will train local people with lived experience to become peer support workers to provide trauma-informed care support rooted in the Blackfoot culture. Programming will be evidence-based and patient-centered with an emphasis on harm reduction, peer and Elder support, and connection to community resources.

Project duration: June 29, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This project will support wellness and culture learning land camps to address trauma and grief that contribute to substance use. The target population will be individuals and families at risk of substance-related overdoses, experiencing domestic violence, and facing poverty or housing insecurity.

Project duration: July 5, 2022 to December 31, 2023

This project will expand existing services at the Urban Indigenous Health and Healing Cooperative health centre in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to include safer supply and Indigenous Elder-led cultural healing programs.

Project duration: July 15, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This project will offer safer supply, embedded within six housing, shelter, and congregate settings, and wraparound care.

Project duration: March 29, 2021 to March 31, 2024

This project will create educational supports for health care providers at St. Joseph's Health Care and London Health Sciences Centre. This includes developing and delivering tailored modules and communications on methamphetamine use, and deploying a nurse educator and a trained lived experience educator.

Project duration: July 19, 2022 to January 1, 2024

This project will expand a harm reduction program for youth who use drugs in the Qathet Regional District, on BC's Northern Sunshine Coast. The project will target 30 youth who will be offered mentorship, connections to local cultural and land-based learning and work experience in a youth-led café setting.

Project duration: March 7, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative will support organizations, primary care teams and private provider delivering Safer Opioid Supply. The CoP will also connect stakeholders across Canada, leveraging resources and facilitating collaboration to build on successes/lessons learned and reduce duplication of work.

Project duration: May 17, 2021 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will help reduce harms related to the toxic illegal drug supply by providing prescribed opioids to patients with opioid use disorder during the pandemic and beyond.

Project duration: March 31, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will implement a 60-day online substance use recovery program for men aged between 19 and 45 who use opioids and other substances, and are lacking housing and employment stability. This project will also provide training for front-line workers in residential treatment programs in the regions of Vancouver and Surrey.

Project duration: March 9, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will provide 24/7 in-person harm reduction and social services, including wraparound services, peer-led outreach, education, drug testing and system navigation services for hard-to-reach marginalized populations. The organization will also provide support to those who inject drugs and are experiencing homelessness, street involved, unstably housed, or otherwise experience a degree of social exclusion and isolation.

Project duration: March 9, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will provide support to women whose use alcohol and other substances and are on the wait list for long-term residential addictions treatment at a residential treatment center.

Project duration: May 4, 2021 to March 31, 2023

This project will update the 2017 Canadian guideline on the use of opioids for non-cancer pain incorporating new evidence and adopting new knowledge synthesis methods, as well as incorporating information from stakeholder feedback. The updated guideline will provide essential guidance to people living with chronic pain, and the physicians, nurse practitioners, and pharmacists involved in their care.

Project duration: June 20, 2022 to December 20, 2023

This initiative will develop and implement a youth-driven cannabis education strategy to be imbedded in the grade 4-12 curriculum in Newfoundland and Labrador. The project will use harm reduction approach to cannabis education that will support youths' social-emotional competence and health literacy.

Project duration: February 21, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative will develop an outreach team that will distribute condoms and harm reduction supplies such as clean needles and pipes and connect with underserved Métis people living in Surrey and Downtown Eastside Vancouver.

Project duration: August 10, 2022 to January 31, 2024

This project aims to help increase the participation of Black youth and community members in promoting conversations about substance use and mental health issues in the North West Toronto Region.

Project duration: June 29, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This initiative will provide education and training for community-based peer navigators from the Halifax Substance User Network so they can make referrals to health and social services, treatment, and follow-up care.

Project duration: June 29, 2022 to September 19, 2023

This project will help respond to the needs of underserved, marginalized, diverse youth and young adults (ages 15-35) using or at risk of using substances, living in the rural and suburban communities of Nova Scotia. The program will use a 'Train-the-Trainer' model, by providing access to life skills training and recreational opportunities to youth.

Project duration: March 1, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will implement a culturally-informed harm reduction model at the Native Child and Family Services of Toronto's (NCFST) transitional housing sites and Youth Services Drop-In Centre in Downtown Toronto. The project will develop and deliver culturally appropriate harm reduction training to 45 NCFST staff members. This funding will also allow the hiring of people with lived experiences to build NCFST's capacity to deliver wraparound harm reduction and mental health supports in a stigma-free and culturally supportive environment.

Project duration: September 27, 2022 to March 31, 2024

This project will deliver individualized and group treatment recovery plans that are land-based, with culturally sensitive activities, to support off-reserve Indigenous people who use drugs in PEI.

Project duration: August 19, 2020 to August 6, 2023

This initiative will develop and disseminate culturally appropriate cannabis public education and awareness resources and programming to Wikwemikong communities in Northern Ontario.

Project duration: April 1, 2019 to September 30, 2023

This pilot project will support Indigenous people living with HIV or at risk of contracting HIV, who are also living with an addiction and struggling with their mental health. The project will help address an existing gap between the time an individual identifies the need for treatment and the time the individual receives support. Housing services and support will be available to ensure the transition from a care facility does not result in individuals having to experience homelessness.

Project duration: August 10, 2022 to February 29, 2024

This initiative aims to improve access to and quality of care within primary care and social services, such as access to housing and health services, for people who use methamphetamine and other drugs. Over three years, the project aims to reach approximately 1,200 people who use drugs in Winnipeg's downtown and Point Douglas neighborhoods.

Project duration: July 1, 2020 to September 30, 2023

This project will provide individuals and their families with community outreach, peer support and access to services that promote safety, self-sufficiency and wellbeing to participants and their families. This program will support people experiencing mental illness, addiction, abuse, housing insecurity, homelessness, economic insecurity, people on probation or parole, as well as those living with a concurrent illness.

Project duration: September 23, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will provide wraparound services (transportation, mental health counseling, and crisis intervention) to young Indigenous women. This project will also help connect Nisga'a community members with Indigenous cultural and family supports and harm reduction strategies.

Project duration: August 5, 2022 to January 29, 2024

This project will provide integrated health, housing, and supportive services to Calgary's vulnerable South Asian families, including recovery coaching for people who use drugs.

Project duration: July 4, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This initiative will create a team of peer system navigators to provide wraparound harm reduction services for and by people with lived and living experience. The Northern Network of Peers for Equality will engage with hard-to-reach minority populations including BIPOC, LGBTG2S+, people experiencing homelessness, and people who use substances to provide guidance in a range of social and health-related services.

Project duration: May 18, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will provide opioid agonist treatment services and related supports for the residents of Grande Prairie's "Coordinated Care Campus" supportive housing and wraparound support centre. The intent of the campus is to provide place-based housing with additional supports to address resident's physical, mental and psychological health, as well as addressing addictions through a harm reduction and recovery focused lens.

Project duration: February 21, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will implement a pilot safer supply program. The program's prescribers will provide assessment, monitoring, and prescriptions for daily-dispensed, take-home oral hydromorphone to eligible clients. Clients will have access to a range of health and psychosocial supports and wraparound services that address the social determinants of health.

Project duration: July 5, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will enhance care, treatment, and overall health for individuals with substance use and/or concurrent disorders in Cape Breton, Guysborough, and Antigonish. The Nova Scotia Health Authority and the Ally Centre (a harm reduction organization) will collaborate to improve client access for approximately 1,500 vulnerable individuals, many of whom are also experiencing homelessness and/or working in the sex trade.

Project duration: March 14, 2023 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will enhance and improve access to peer support for people with a substance use-concurrent disorder dealing with withdrawal management symptoms. The funding will specifically enable the organization to add two new peer support workers in two Recovery Support Centres supporting individuals living with withdrawal management and recovery issues.

Project duration: January 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024

This project will enhance trauma and stigma-informed substance use and mental health training for emergency department staff across Nova Scotia by building on a previous pilot that took place in 2018-2020, where 220 emergency staff participated in educational sessions on substance use and co-occurring mental health disorders.

Project duration: February 15, 2023 to March 31, 2024

The projet aims to create a safe gathering space, guided by the Inuit culture, for Inuit people in Labrador at increased risks of substance use harms. Participants will have access to food, clothing, harm reduction supplies, health care professionals, counselors or peer support workers. Inuit people with lived experience of substance use, trauma and addiction will lead the project.

Project duration: September 29, 2022 to December 31, 2023

This initiative will implement and adapt for the Canadian context, Project Lazarus, a community-based overdose prevention program developed in North Carolina, USA. Project Lazarus works with community coalitions to support central coordination and local action to reduce overdose deaths.

Project duration: July 9, 2019 to March 31, 2024

This project will engage youth 14 to 19 years of age in the development of an interactive online and mobile friendly program to include self-directed cessation strategies, peer and professional support and resources for youth who want to quit (tobacco smoking and nicotine vaping).

Project duration: September 9, 2019 to September 30, 2023

This initiative will provide youth experiencing homelessness with individualized support by increasing efforts to prevent the harms associated with substance use through peer-led street outreach. This project will address the current gaps in the city of Ottawa, which were caused by the closure of street outreach programs due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Project duration: July 26, 2022 to January 22, 2024

This project will deliver a home-based detoxification service, specifically focussing on services for South Asian men. A family physician will provide the initial intake assessment and develop a treatment plan including prescription medication such as Opioid Agonist Therapy. A care team, comprised of a Licensed Practical Nurse, Clinical Counsellor, and Peer Support Worker, will administer relevant medication, liaise with physicians daily and provide patients with counselling and education relating to side effects and withdrawal symptoms.

Project duration: January 27, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project aims to reach an additional 60,000 people per year in five P/Ts (NB, NL, ON, QC and NU) by creating regional hubs to support implementation of the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation (OMSC) program that provides evidence-based, clinical nicotine addiction support from healthcare providers.

Project duration: August 20, 2020 to March 31, 2025

This project will implement a digital portal which provides Canadians with rapid access to stepped care resources for the management of pain, mental health and substance use. This project will also provide free evidenced-based virtual resources to help youth and adults manage their pain.

Project duration: November 10, 2022 to March 31, 2024

This project will offer a pre-treatment program for individuals on the waitlist for residential treatment services from the Pacifica Treatment Centre. This program will help mitigate the potential for harms, enhance readiness for those on the waitlist and reduce the high waitlist drop-out rate.

Project duration: March 7, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will help improve access to care and services for people in British Columbia's 2SLGBTQIA+ as well as Chinese, Punjabi and Arabic speaking communities who are living with chronic pain.

Project duration: August 10, 2022 to February 29, 2024

This project will provide pharmaceutical-grade medication to people experiencing severe opioid use disorder and connect patients with important health and social services, including treatment.

Project duration: July 10, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This project will expand upon existing Ottawa community-based services to prescribe pharmaceutical opioids for those at greatest risk of overdose and death.

Project duration: July 2, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This project will pilot a peer support and navigation service for people with mental illness and substance use challenges at the Orillia Soldiers Memorial Hospital Emergency Department. This program will provide one-to-one peer and family support to approximately 650 patients and their families. Mental health crisis workers and the inpatient addictions counsellor will support patients through the program.

Project duration: March 15, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will pilot a peer-led harm reduction outreach model for individuals who use illegal substances in rural and small-town settings in Prince Edward Island. The model will help people navigate the health and social services systems. The project also includes the recruitment, hiring, training and ongoing support of a peer team coordinator and peer leaders.

Project duration: August 5, 2022 to January 29, 2024

This initiative will offer harm reduction and therapeutic communication training to individuals with lived or living experience of substance and that have experience in sex work. They will be offered a supported work experience through which they will facilitate harm reduction workshops aimed at people who use substances. With this gained experience, the project would further support the trainees in finding paid or volunteer work in the field of harm reduction.

Project duration: May 27, 2021 to March 31, 2023

This project explores enablers and barriers to building capacity within primary care teams for the prescription of safer supply to people with opioid use living in smaller urban or rural settings.

Project duration: April 1, 2021 to June 30, 2024

This project will provide PARN the opportunity to formally mobilize existing peers into supported service delivery positions.

Project duration: May 16, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This initiative will use the Lifeguard app to monitor the status of people who use illegal drugs living in PHS supportive housing in Vancouver, home to a wide demographic of marginalized groups using opiate and polydrug and regularly using substances alone.

Project duration: July 4, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will deliver a 16-week intensive outpatient addiction treatment program for indigenous women with substance use disorders that are completing prison sentences and beginning to reintegrate into society. In collaboration with the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan, this program will develop individual case plans for the women to help prevent relapses in both criminal behaviour and/or substance use.

Project duration: February 22, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will support a national Opioid Crisis Support Community of Practice connecting service delivery workers, organizations, agencies, and people with lived and living experiences to enable them to share and discuss ideas, challenges, and knowledge of current trends and practices in a safe space.

Project duration: May 4, 2022 to October 31, 2023

This project aims to reduce stigma and discrimination through training based on the BC/Yukon Council's Opioid Overdose Response and Opioid Awareness program.

Project duration: January 25, 2021 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will develop an evidence-based intervention to screen, treat and provide long-term support for youth with substance use problems, particularly opioids, cannabis and alcohol, and study the impact of this intervention on youth living in diverse communities in BC and Ontario.

Project duration: June 27, 2019 to March 31, 2024

This project will establish a safer supply program in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver for people at risk of overdose and death due to the increasingly toxic illegal drug supply during the outbreak. In partnership with the B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS, the project will offer a personalized, low-barrier approach, with a variety of opioid medications available and extended operating hours. It will also help connect patients to primary care, peer support workers and social workers.

Project duration: July 20, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will implement and evaluate the centre's contingency management (CM) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) programs in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver. CM involves awarding gift cards or vouchers of escalating value for meeting a range of recovery goals. CBT helps participants reorder the way they think about their substance use and helps them develop strategies to avoid triggers and manage cravings. This program supports people struggling with stimulant use who are seeking help to reduce or stop using stimulant drugs, like methamphetamine or cocaine.

Project duration: July 20, 2022 to August 31, 2023

This project will expand an existing peer support program for sex workers who use substances in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. The project will hire peer support workers to provide outreach services to partner organizations including social housing; distribute harm reduction supplies and educational materials; and build trusting relationships with hard-to-reach members of the sex work and drug use community.

Project duration: March 15, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will implement a treatment program at the Prince George Regional Correction Centre for people who experience problematic use of crystal methamphetamine. Additionally, the project uses a peer-led program in transitional housing to help people reintegrate and to continue their treatment.

Project duration: June 16, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will expand and evaluate the new virtual British Columbia Provincial Mental Health and Substance Use (MHSU) Network and support key network activities to build the MHSU workforce capacity to address the needs of people in BC with both mental health and substance use disorders.

Project duration: June 23, 2022 to September 30, 2023

New Healthy Heart Work

Chee Shoó-kǔm Tuḿ-tum Mamuk

This initiative will implement a program in two Indigenous communities. By using a "train-the-trainer" model, this project will enable the sharing of knowledge, skills development and tools to support mental wellness and reduce substance use. Community members are leading the development of programs and resources based on current priorities, using intervention approaches that are mindful of Indigenous cultures.

Project duration: August 27, 2020 to July 31, 2025

This initiative will expand upon the current peer-to-peer project which conducts outreach and responds to overdoses in the community. This expansion will focus on extending the reach of harm reduction services to rural, remote and marginalized communities in Chatham-Kent through the development and evaluation of ten peer-led, informal, residential harm reduction satellite sites.

Project duration: February 9, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will develop and implement a new harm reduction, treatment, and wraparound care service for 30 to 40 people living with moderate to severe stimulant use disorder (primarily methamphetamine). Care plans will include services such as contingency management, participation in community programs, Opioid Agonist Therapy as well as employment training.

Project duration: February 6, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will provide a mobile delivery model of pharmaceutical alternatives to the toxic drug supply and wraparound care serving vulnerable populations across the Niagara region in partnership with regional health and service organizations. The project will support individuals experiencing homelessness or housing insecurity; marginalized groups such as Indigenous, racialized and 2SLGBTQIA+ communities; those experiencing poverty or economic insecurity; people actively using toxic street drugs; and those engaged in sex work.

Project duration: November 10, 2022 to October 31, 2023

This project will increase access to services for people who use drugs while reducing stigma through connecting with new and existing programs. Peers will be trained as community workers and work alongside staff to create culturally safe and stigma-free spaces for community members, which will help remove barriers to accessing care.

Project duration: August 31, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This initiative offers a pharmaceutical alternative to toxic, illegal methamphetamine and opioids. The project offers individualized care plans, flexible medical appointments, oral and injectable opioid agonist therapy, a pharmaceutical alternative to stimulants and other social and health services.

Project duration: March 20, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This project aims to advance policies and practices to help service providers, including health, social, and harm reduction professionals work together effectively in order to provide tools to reduce harms related to substance use and mental health within the gay/bisexual/men community.

Project duration: June 21, 2022 to December 15, 2023

This project will employ peer support specialists and health care professionals who will deliver prevention, addiction, and mental health treatment and support; primary health care; and outreach using trauma-informed principles and a harm reduction approach.

Project duration: June 23, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This project aims to create a person-centred, community led, and multi-disciplinary harm reduction program in New England, Saskatchewan for community members experiencing substance use related harms in the Nipawin area.

Project duration: July 1, 2020 to August 30, 2023

This initiative will provide a drug checking service at the existing Consumption and Treatment Services site in Kitchener, to allow people who use drugs to make more informed decisions on what they are consuming. Peer support workers will build relationships with people who use drugs and encourage use of the drug checking service.

Project duration: October 3, 2022 to March 31, 2024

This project will create an Indigenous-focused urban healing program aimed at helping participants transition through a harm reduction continuum from outreach to detox, and then to treatment and recovery services. The program will hire an Indigenous-led care team, and will include land-based cultural knowledge, Elder support, healing circles, ceremonies and use of traditional medicine. This project supports Indigenous people living in the urban core area of Saskatoon who experience homelessness, are at risk of homelessness, and/or who are living with mental health issues and substance use harms.

Project duration: August 5, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This project aims to raise awareness and support uptake of existing tools and resources related to cannabis and youth mental health. Specific outputs of the project will include: an enhanced website, social media, certificate courses on cannabis and mental health geared toward youth ages 19-25, cannabis and mental health toolkit for facilitators, webinars for service provider and educator networks, and a community of practice.

Project duration: February 21, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative aims to improve support for youth struggling with their mental health and substance use in the Squamish region. This program will focus on streamlining care and establishing single-point access to various wraparound services, prioritizing relationship-based approaches, and committing to empowering youth to seek care and make decisions for themselves.

Project duration: June 29, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This project will: develop an "Each 1 Teach 1" program for people with lived and living experience to share their experiences, provide traditional knowledge and links to mental health and substance use counseling services, deliver healing camps on wellness and traditional healing practices, and deliver professional development to health and social services workers.

Project duration: February 24, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will conduct outreach skills training and organize kitchen table talks, which involve informal peer discussions and the distribution of peer-informed kits containing harm reduction and safer sex supplies, resources, and season-specific essential needs (e.g., food, hygiene products, and Personal Protective Equipment).

Project duration: May 1, 2022 to October 31, 2023

This initiative will improve patient access to addiction medicine by establishing a Rapid Access to Addictions Medicine (RAAM) walk-in clinic at the three locations in Manitoba (in Brandon with a mobile unit visiting Swan River, Virden, and Russell).

Project duration: September 29, 2022 to October 31, 2023

This project will deliver safer supply services for 2SLGBTQIA+ people who use drugs and face barriers to safe services in Toronto. This project aims to address a gap in access to culturally specific harm reduction and health services for queer people including harm reduction, acute primary care, and other health and social services. The project includes wrap-around care centered on providing pharmaceutical drugs of known potency and consistency in response to the toxic and unpredictable street supply.

Project duration: February 21, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project aims to evaluate the quality, accessibility, culturally appropriateness and safety of services for women living with Opioid Use Disorder (OUD) and their children in British Columbia. This project will strengthen the clinical evidence-base for the treatment of perinatal OUD as well as the association between the health of mothers with OUD and the long-term health outcomes of their children.

Project duration: July 26, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This initiative will develop a comprehensive, rigorously defined set of health system performance measures for People With Opioid Use Disorders.

Project duration: June 6, 2018 to March 31, 2023

This initiative will develop and evaluate a national evidence-based training module to enable primary health care providers to develop competencies in treating opioid use disorder, building on the existing, accredited, multi-modal Safer Opioid Prescribing program.

Project duration: July 25, 2019 to June 30, 2023

This initiative will deliver an overdose prevention and harm reduction program that will provide harm reduction education, supplies, and outreach services in a culturally safe and relevant manner to service providers, individuals who use substances, and community members of Six Nations of the Grand River.

Project duration: November 10, 2022 to March 31, 2024

This project will develop a set of high-level clinical best practice recommendations for healthcare professionals that provide services for women who are using substances, including methamphetamines, during pregnancy, breastfeeding and in the post-partum period. Educational resources will be developed and disseminated electronically and on social media platforms in order to reach audiences at the national, provincial/territorial and community levels.

Project duration: January 25, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will train harm reduction peer workers who will provide proactive outreach in non-traditional environments to identify, engage and build capacity for safer practices with the most isolated members of the substance using community who use alone and in unsafe conditions.

Project duration: June 6, 2019 to March 31, 2023

This project will expand the existing rural chronic pain and opioid care program for clients with stimulant and opioid use disorders living in Ontario's Bruce–Grey region. This funding will enable the organization to expand the number of patients being served, and to improve access to treatment services and provide referrals to wraparound supports and clinical training for primary care practitioners.

Project duration: March 8, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will deliver fixed and mobile community-based harm reduction and supply distribution services for women experiencing or at risk of experiencing violence and abuse, who are also at a heightened risk of substance-related overdose.

Project duration: February 22, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative will dispatch outreach teams of trained peer workers to seven Manitoba First Nation communities to provide substance use awareness resources, overdose training, first aid certification and take-home naloxone kits.

Project duration: November 2, 2022 to February 29, 2024

This project will help people with opioid use disorder who are at a greater risk of overdose and other harms related to the toxic illegal drug supply.

Project duration: June 25, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will implement a 16-week paid training and mentorship on-the-job program for future harm reduction/overdose response workers. People with lived or living experience of substance use, Black people, Indigenous people, other racialized people and 2SLGBTQIA+ persons will be trained on how to work in a trauma-informed, gender-transformative, and anti-oppressive manner.

Project duration: September 6, 2022 to February 29, 2024

This project will provide wraparound supports and individualized care planning to individuals who are at a heightened risk of substance-related overdoses and who face multiple barriers to accessing care in the Winnipeg area.

Project duration: June 8, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This initiative will provide mobile, on-the-spot peer support, harm reduction supply, primary care services, and counselling for people struggling with substance use and mental health issues.

Project duration: April 27, 2021 to March 31, 2023

This project will develop a revised curriculum for the substance use workforce that delivers harm reduction and treatment services to Indigenous people at higher risk of opioid overdose and to those facing barriers to care due to racism in the healthcare system. The new online learning platforms will be created in consultation with the BC FNHA's Indigenous-led Integrated Addictions Care Partnership. The curriculum will be embedded within the BCCSU Nursing program, Addictions Care and Treatment Online program, and Provincial Opioid Agonist Treatment Support programs.

Project duration: July 19, 2022 to December 31, 2023

This initiative will support seven interdisciplinary learners identified by BC's First Nations Health Authority (FNHA) and the Indigenous Physician's Association of Canada (IPAC) to participate in and complete the BC Centre on Substance Use's (BCCSU) Interdisciplinary Addiction Medicine Fellowship program. Once their training is complete, clinicians will provide care to more than 1000 people and provide recommendations on policy changes to promote culturally safe services and learning environments.

Project duration: October 1, 2022 to March 31, 2024

The purpose of the project is to develop a National Guideline for the Clinical Management of High-Risk Drinking and Alcohol Use Disorder, and related knowledge tool and supports, which would assist health professionals to effectively identify and address high-risk drinking and Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD) and support patients across the lifespan to address alcohol related health conditions.

Project duration: September 1, 2020 to November 30, 2023

This initiative aims to implement the Peer 2 Peer Overdose Response Program, which will provide peer-led, low barrier urgent response to drug poisonings in Guelph and Wellington County. Support and education will be provided to the individual's family and friends, and the medical staff responding to the drug poisoning.

Project duration: June 9, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This initiative will support a mobile crisis response team trained to attend to emergencies in Bearspaw First Nation on the Eden Valley reserve. The team will conduct non-crisis interventions, respond to overdoses, teach harm reduction techniques and aftercare to those who have experienced the trauma of an overdose and to the crisis response team.

Project duration: July 14, 2022 to September 30, 2023

This project will train students to provide mental health and substance use services using trauma-informed and land-based methods. This project will support approximately 110 students through a variety of programs and workshops through accredited institutions.

Project duration: March 15, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative put together a team of 32 youth leaders to help address the overdose crisis. This team will be trained in intervention and referral to treatment. Over the course of the project this team will advise and support at least 12 adult-led consortiums in how to initiate and sustain youth engagement in opioid/substance use initiatives including social media campaigns and events.

Project duration: March 17, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This initiative will operate a recreation motor vehicle to deliver peer-led outreach services five to six nights a week to people who use drugs in Winnipeg's Central, West End, North End, and Point Douglas communities.

Project duration: June 21, 2022 to October 31, 2023

This project will provide people who use drugs with a pharmaceutical-grade medication as an alternative to the toxic illegal drug supply, and wraparound supports such as employment opportunities and access to harm reduction programming.

Project duration: June 29, 2022 to December 31, 2023

This project will disseminate culturally relevant and appropriate resources, such as the use and integration of healing circles and Elders, to support First Nations communities in addressing the harms of methamphetamine use. The resources will also include community toolkits on the impacts of stimulants, including methamphetamine, on First Nations people.

Project duration: May 5, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will develop a culturally appropriate harm reduction approach to drug and alcohol use for men at risk of serious health issues and overdose in isolated communities in the Northwest Territories. A harm reduction guide will be developed and provided to families of individuals struggling with substance use.

Project duration: September 29, 2022 to December 31, 2023

This project will increase the capacity and the quality of support at the Integrated Care Hub. This program will implement a holistic approach to care that recognizes the complex circumstances of those accessing services by addressing substance use, mental health, lack of housing, and developing specific skills for employment.

Project duration: July 4, 2022 to December 31, 2023

This project aims to finalize and pilot-test an emerging drug checking technology device called DoseCheck, with the goal of expanding access to overdose prevention technology in underserved settings and among structurally vulnerable populations.

Project duration: March 29, 2022 to March 31, 2023

This project will further educate community-based primary health care providers in underserved and remote regions of Canada in the treatment of pain.

Project duration: January 1, 2021 to December 31, 2023

This project will explore the national expansion of an existing successful pain management program implemented in five Ontario hospitals.

Project duration: November 1, 2020 to October 31, 2023

This project will expand the roll-out of a digital overdose prevention app for people who use drugs alone and are residents of supportive housing and shelters in Toronto. Building on a 30-day pilot project that handed out 32 refurbished mobile phones to individuals, the new app will expand its reach to include 12 high-risk buildings representing up to 400 individuals in Toronto.

Project duration: January 23, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will develop and implement a comprehensive online approach to screening university students for substance use and mental health issues, with a focus on opioid, alcohol, and cannabis use. It will also provide coached e-interventions to manage stress, anxiety, depression, risk, and relapse.

Project duration: July 23, 2019 to May 31, 2023

This project will evaluate the impact of prescribed safer supply on people recently released from incarceration - a population that faces a disproportionate burden of overdose risk and mortality as well as significant barriers to care.

Project duration: July 12, 2022 to December 31, 2023

This project proposes to promote, expand and evaluate the uptake of injectable opioid agonist treatment (iOAT) carry doses (iCarries) with a person-centred care approach. Results from this program will inform the expansion of iOAT services in BC and across Canada.

Project duration: March 25, 2022 to March 31, 2023

This project proposes to bring together professionals providing oral opioid agonist therapy services in primary care, substance use, mental health, withdrawal management, and outreach settings to develop, implement, measure, and share best practices in oral opioid agonist therapy.

Project duration: April 1, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This initiative supports treating severely addicted and mentally ill individuals. Studies will analyze severe concurrent disorders to gain knowledge about critical subgroups (e.g., women, LGBTQ2S, people from rural and remote areas, homeless and Indigenous people) and monitor the transitions from inpatient treatment to community living.

Project duration: March 22, 2019 to January 31, 2024

This initiative will offer UBC's current e-intervention application Minder to secondary students across British Columbia. The app, originally developed for university students, provides tools that combine screening with cognitive-behavioral therapy in order to reduce harm from substance use and to provide tools for managing co-occurring conditions such as anxiety and depression.

Project duration: March 25, 2022 to March 31, 2023

This project aims to use provincial health-related data to increase knowledge of methamphetamine use in the province. The project will also develop strategies to support people who use methamphetamine and reduce related harms, especially among Indigenous communities.

Project duration: April 23, 2020 to March 31, 2024

The project aims to develop, pilot, evaluate and scale-up interventions for youth and young adults vaping cessation. The intervention will be based primarily on an existing smoking cessation app with additional interventions.

Project duration: September 1, 2019 to March 31, 2024

This initiative will develop a stakeholder-informed provincial network of people to generate and report timely and actionable evidence on substance use, related harms, costs, structural vulnerability and community responses to reduce substance-related harms. The network will include people who use substances and their families, community service providers, regional health authorities, and the provincial government.

Project duration: June 24, 2019 to March 31, 2025

This project will update and expand the previously SUAP-funded Canadian Alcohol Policy Evaluation (CAPE 2.0) project, which characterizes and systematically evaluates the degree of implementation of provincial, territorial, and federal alcohol policies across 11 evidence-based alcohol policy domains.

Project duration: March 24, 2022 to March 31, 2023

The overall objective of the current proposal is to examine the impact of cannabis legalization on short and longer-term public health outcomes, and to inform cannabis policy in the Canadian Territories.

Project duration: September 1, 2020 to August 31, 2024

This project will enable a drug checking laboratory at Western University and deploy a novel drug checking system to 8-10 supervised consumption sites. The project will support people who use drugs and people who inject drugs, as well as support workers. Drug checking data that will be made publicly available.

Project duration: January 20, 2023 to March 31, 2024

The project will deliver a safer supply program that will prescribe pharmaceutical-grade opioids to people most at risk of overdose. The initiative will focus on those who have been diagnosed with an opioid use disorder and who have not been helped by traditional substance use services and treatments. The long-term project will also assist in connecting patients to primary care, mental health and addiction services, and social supports, including housing/income stabilization, education and employment. In addition, the project will contribute valuable evidence to support the development of best practices for safer supply programs in Canada.

Project duration: July 23, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This project will deliver a comprehensive lndigenous cultural support program at Sheway, which provides health and social services to people who are either pregnant or parenting and use (or have used) substances. Services will include access to Elder support and lndigenous-specific cultural activities and workshops in order to improve cultural and spiritual wellness and reduce harm associated with substance use.

Project duration: March 13, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This innovative project will provide pharmaceutical-grade medication as an alternative to the toxic illegal drug supply for people in Cowichan Valley who have not responded to other forms of treatment for opioid use disorder.

Project duration: June 29, 2020 to March 31, 2024

This project will deliver culturally informed psycho-educational therapy and prevention education for the Tamil population in the Greater Toronto Area. The project will engage people and provide services that will help address fear, stigma and language barriers around trauma, mental health and substance use and inform how and where to get help.

Project duration: February 22, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will implement a Black-led, Black-centric, trauma-informed model of care to ensure Black youth and their families in Regent Park and surrounding communities in Toronto are engaged and supported by stigma-free and culturally relevant mental health, trauma and substance use programming.

Project duration: February 27, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will create a peer-informed harm reduction outreach service consisting of three main initiatives: 1) outreach to adults who use drugs and are experiencing homelessness /housing insecurity; 2) community organizing to build harm reduction capacity in Winnipeg's West Broadway neighbourhood; and 3) coordination of community responses to issues in the neighbourhood.

Project duration: February 2, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will provide outreach services in the Eastman Region of Manitoba by connecting individuals at risk of experiencing substance-related harms with early prevention, addictions management, and mental health services. The project will also offer peer support groups, and refer individuals to social and support services.

Project duration: June 29, 2022 to December 31, 2023

This project aims to increase harm reduction capacity of the VAWN—a network of 14 Ontario Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services-funded shelters in the Greater Toronto Area. This funding would help coordinate harm reduction capacity needs assessments and each participating shelter will receive an individualized report with recommendations and operational improvements to deliver harm reduction services.

Project duration: March 17, 2023 to March 31, 2025

This project will work with local stakeholders to explore customization and uptake of the Global Spine Care Initiative Model of Care and treatment approach for the conservative management of spine problems in Pimicikamak (Cross Lake First Nation), northern Manitoba. The goal of this project is to help reduce opioid prescribing to treat low back pain and spinal issues. The project will study the impact of the use of opioids for spinal disorders in the community, work with local stakeholders to identify the barriers and engage with facilitators to implement a culturally modified Model of Care.

Project duration: September 29, 2022 to March 31, 2024

This project will implement and expand the Concurrent Specialized Youth Hub, which provides youth access to multiple supports in the City of Guelph and in the Wellington and Dufferin Counties. Services will include housing, education, financial support and, low-barrier wraparound health care and support for youth, including those with co-occurring disorders.

Project duration: June 29, 2022 to November 30, 2023

This project aims to implement a youth awareness program in Toronto centered around the Icelandic Prevention Model that will increase knowledge of opioid use, address stigma and promote healthy lifestyles through physical activity. This project would educate, protect, connect and support youth aged 15 to 24 to help them better understand and make educated choices about opioids.

Project duration: September 26, 2022 to January 31, 2024