Emergency Treatment Fund 2024

The City of New Westminster's Crises Response Pilot Project

Recipient: Corporation of the City of New Westminster

Contribution agreement total: $1,466,230

This project will address the interconnected crises of substance use, homelessness, and mental health by providing stable shelter, wrap-around supports, and expanded harm-reduction outreach teams and services. It will tackle community issues like stigma and discarded drug paraphernalia while fostering collaboration between service providers and supportive housing.

Islands of Stability

Recipient: SUNSHINE HOUSE INC.

Contribution agreement total: $685,209

This project will expand access to harm reduction supplies through enhanced outreach and program services. It will also provide cultural supports, including a seasonal cultural camp to improve self-perception and connection to culture for individuals affected by substance use. Additionally, the project will support 2SLGBTQIA+ individuals in accessing withdrawal management and treatment, with a full-time systems navigator dedicated to facilitating referrals.

Overnight Outreach

Recipient: City of Fredericton

Contribution agreement total: $578,100

This project aims to expand outreach efforts in Fredericton, New Brunswick, by adding overnight services to support vulnerable populations, particularly those affected by age, gender, or individual capacity. It will involve acquiring a Sprinter van to deliver supplies, provide transport to critical services, distribute naloxone, and offer overdose support and weather warnings year-round. The initiative seeks to alleviate pressure on emergency services while addressing the growing opioid crisis.

From Emergency to Empowerment: Urgent Wraparound Care Solutions

Recipient: City of Miramichi

Contribution agreement total: $1,530,810

This project will develop an urgent wraparound treatment center as an extension of the new Out of the Cold shelter in Miramichi to address the ongoing crisis. This trauma-informed, culturally appropriate facility will provide immediate access to critical care and services, strengthening local capacity to respond to the overdose crisis. The Center will create a more seamless and effective service delivery model for vulnerable populations in rural Miramichi.

Walking the Lands for Recovery - An Indigenous Peer Support Circle

Recipient: First Light St. John's Friendship Centre Inc

Contribution agreement total: $366,323

This initiative will create an Indigenous Peer Support Circle in an urban setting, providing culturally grounded pathways to healing for Indigenous community members facing substance use challenges, trauma, and mental health issues. This project incorporates land-based healing activities, harm reduction services, cultural healing practices, and peer support to create a safe and empowering space that aligns with Indigenous ways of knowing and healing.

Town of Amherst Mobile Outreach Program

Recipient: Town of Amherst

Contribution agreement total: $364,837

This Mobile Outreach Program will be staffed and equipped to facilitate timely, accessible connections to critical recovery resources in the town of Amherst including: staffing; mobile response vehicle and service delivery. This project will remove barriers for citizens in the rural community who struggle to access essential recovery services due to logistical and systemic barriers, by connecting them to support services and crisis interventions.

The Bridge

Recipient: City of Belleville

Contribution agreement total: $3,498,129

This project aims to retrofit a building in Belleville into an integrated care hub, "The Bridge," for individuals at risk of opioid-related drug poisoning and homelessness. The hub will provide improved access to a range of services, foster greater integration among service providers, and enhance safety for clients and staff.

Urgent Connections: Collaborative Outreach and Connections to Safe Spaces to Combat Ottawa's Toxic Drug Crisis

Recipient: City of Ottawa

Contribution agreement total: $3,988,338

This initiative will deliver a collaborative outreach effort targeting Ottawa neighborhoods most affected by the toxic drug crisis and the seasonal increase in outdoor drug use. It will strengthen support by expanding the roles of peer and harm reduction outreach workers, addiction counselors, and system navigators while enhancing the capacity to provide urgent health and social services and respond effectively to emergencies. The project will deliver immediate, life-saving harm reduction services, overdose prevention and response, direct connections to essential support systems and direct pathways into safe spaces, and will enhance individuals access to basic needs, housing assistance, employment and social services and connections into substance use health treatment.

Pathways to Health: Mobile Harm Reduction Outreach for Safer Communities in Thunder Bay

Recipient: The Corporation of the City of Thunder Bay

Contribution agreement total: $237,960

This initiative will address the pressing health and housing needs of individuals experiencing unsheltered homelessness and the toxic drug crisis in Thunder Bay, ON. The project will provide harm reduction services through mobile outreach, offering naloxone distribution, and support for those in encampments and the Temporary Village Initiative. It will also enhance encampment response efforts by providing resources for sanitation, relationship-building, and connecting individuals to health service and other community supports.

Chatham-Kent (CK)-CORE Project (Community Overdose Response Expansion)

Recipient: Municipality of Chatham-Kent

Contribution agreement total: $574,346

This project will provide peer-led harm reduction outreach services, peer-led harm reduction training including local referral and treatment options, anti-stigma education to organizations and community members, and low-barrier community support spaces for people experiencing houselessness and people who use substances.

Bolstering Harm Reduction Resources in Peel

Recipient: Regional Municipality of Peel

Contribution agreement total: $695,755

This project will enhance current outreach efforts of the Peel Works Harm Reduction program by purchasing 2 vans and enhancing the availability and distribution of harm reduction supplies such as wound care kits, and educational materials.

Kii Daanaandwengwan (The Earth is Healing Me)

Recipient: Naandwechige-Gamig Wiikwemkoong Health Centre

Contribution agreement total: $866,099

This project aims to hire a land-based healing program coordinator to lead the development and implementation of a healing program focused on connecting community members to culture and the land, helping them overcome substance use. The initiative will include hiring an addictions case manager, purchasing necessary equipment for the program, and creating culturally relevant resources like case management models and naloxone training videos.

KSCS Mobile Outreach Van

Recipient: Kahnawà:ke Shakotiia'takehnhas Community Services

Contribution agreement total: $232,476

This project will support a mobile outreach service. This service will provide harm reduction materials, naloxone distribution, health assessments, referrals, and social work support, particularly for individuals experiencing houselessness and substance use issues. By directly engaging with at-risk community members, the initiative aims to prevent overdoses and connect people to essential services, addressing a critical gap in the community's response to the crisis.

Peer Support Workers and Outreach Wellness Van for Overdose Crisis Response

Recipient: Beaver Lake Cree Nation

Contribution agreement total: $322,276

This project will urgently address the rising overdose crisis in Beaver Lake Cree Nation by expanding access to culturally appropriate, trauma-informed care. Peer support workers, an outreach wellness van, and expanded harm reduction programs provide critical overdose prevention and evidence-based response services to community members.

Urgently Reducing Drug Related Harms in Edmonton

Recipient: City of Edmonton

Contribution agreement total: $1,101,944

This project aims to urgently provide supplies and support to reduce harm for vulnerable populations in Edmonton, addressing rising drug poisoning deaths. Funding will enhance outreach, provide access to safe spaces, and distribute harm reduction supplies, including nasal naloxone, to meet increasing demand.

Sunchild First Nation Mobile Response Team Medic Unit

Recipient: Sunchild Health Services

Contribution agreement total: $245,000

This project supports The Mobile Response Team Medic Unit stationed at the Sunchild First Nation Health Center. The project will significantly enhance emergency medical response in the community, reducing average response times, thereby improving healthcare access and outcomes for substance-related emergencies and ensuring timely critical care for community members.

Líl̓wat Nation On-the-Land Healing

Recipient: Lil'wat Health and Healing

Contribution agreement total: $195,860

This project will enhance emergency treatment by purchasing a vehicle to reach isolated community members struggling with substance use and by providing cultural healing through a Knowledge-Keeper’s on-the-land practices. It will also support first responders and others through Sharing Circles, fostering trauma-informed, culturally centered care within the community.

Procure wheelchair accessible bus for Sa’qw’thut Culture-Based Addictions Recovery Program

Recipient: Cowichan Tribes

Contribution agreement total: $196,000

This project will acquire a wheelchair-accessible 16–18-person bus for the Ts'ewulhtun Health Centre's Sa’qw’thut Culture-Based Addictions Recovery Program. The bus will ensure accessible transportation, removing barriers for Indigenous community members to participate in this vital culture-based recovery program.

Strong Medicine - We Will Teach Each Other - Mobile

Recipient: Tla'min Nation

Contribution agreement total: $329,550

This project aims to expand Tla’min Nation’s harm reduction program to address the toxic drug crisis impacting Indigenous communities in the qathet Regional District of British Columbia. Specifically, this project will fund a mobile outreach van to provide Indigenous-led harm reduction services, extending outreach across the Regional District.

Garden Hill and Four Arrows RHA joint proposal to reduce Opiate Overdose addiction and deaths

Recipient: Four Arrows Regional Health Authority Inc.

Contribution agreement total: $285,000

This project will expand operational capacity and improve security of Garden Hill First Nation’s Detox/Crisis Stabilization Unit trailer by adding a Modular trailer and renovating an existing trailer, as well as purchasing side-by-side vehicles to transport clients to land-based substance use prevention activities. Additionally, with ETF funding, the First Nation will distribute harm reduction supplies and support engagement with the community's high-risk population.

Four Arrows RHA Wasagamack Joint Project for Crisis Stablization Unit/Detox and Overdose prevention

Recipient: Four Arrows Regional Health Authority Inc.

Contribution agreement total: $280,000

This project will enhance Wasagamack Anisininew Nation Detox/Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU) by relocating it to a more accessible and secure site, upgrading its facilities, and adding a modular office trailer for additional privacy and services. The project will also expand harm reduction outreach and land-based substance use prevention activities, supported by new transportation resources. Other activities will include training delivery, and program support.

Overdose Prevention in Moncton

Recipient: City of Moncton

Contribution agreement total: $150,000

This project will distribute naloxone to improve overdose outcomes for unhoused individuals accessing wrap-around services in Moncton. The goal of this project is to urgently reduce harms among unhoused individuals who use opioids, in response to an increase in overdose rates within the City of Moncton.

Healing Camp Retrofit Upgrades

Recipient: Délı̨nę Got'ı̨nę Government

Contribution agreement total: $631,000

This project will enhance the Whiskey Jack on-the-land healing camp to better support the Délı̨nę Got’ı̨nę people with recovery from addiction and overdose. By upgrading the camp's infrastructure, the project will offer individuals a safe, culturally rooted environment to reconnect with their heritage and heal, as well as support from a dedicated healing coordinator.

Ambulance Supplies and Stretcher

Recipient: Municipality of Pond Inlet

Contribution agreement total: $106,212

This project will purchase an ambulance and requisite medical supplies to equip it in the remote Inuit community of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, as well as make training on health hazards of substance use available to residents.

Beendigen's Community Healing Project

Recipient: BEENDIGEN INCORPORATED

Contribution agreement total: $141,875

This initiative will provide outreach through the purchasing of a community mobile unit through hiring workers to provide harm reduction services delivered within a wrap-around, trauma-informed and culturally-safe circle of care.

Peer Outreach Support Team Van

Recipient: Nipissing First Nation

Contribution agreement total: $192,995

The initiative will purchase an Outreach Van to provide harm reduction support, including by distributing safe consumption supplies, cold weather gear, food, as well as developing safety, harm reduction, or Wellness Recovery Action Plans (WRAP) and engaging in on-site or in-office peer support.

Accelerating Community Mobilization to Drug Poisoning Crisis: Detection, Mobile Outreach, and Trauma-Informed Care

Recipient: Corporation of the County of Lambton

Contribution agreement total: $816,500

This project will purchase 2 purpose-built Community Outreach/Clinical Vans to support the expansion of Mobile Outreach services to Indigenous communities, and provide funding for the provision of 3 trauma-informed care education sessions with the capacity to train up to 222 direct service providers.

Pathways to Resilience: Marten Falls Comprehensive Healing and Treatment Program

Recipient: Marten Falls First Nation

Contribution agreement total: $1,909,367

This program will offer immediate intervention through a Mobile Response Unit staffed with trained counselors, providing crisis outreach, counseling, and culturally relevant programming, and also connecting individuals to treatment options. This initiative aims to foster long-term recovery, resilience, and community health, bridging the gap created by the community's isolation and extended wait times for external healthcare services.

Kii Daanaandwengwan (The Earth is Healing Me)

Recipient: Naandwechige-Gamig Wiikwemkoong Health Centre

Contribution agreement total: $866,099

This project aims to hire a land-based healing program coordinator to lead the development and implementation of a healing program focused on connecting community members to culture and the land, helping them overcome substance use. The initiative will include hiring an addictions case manager, purchasing necessary equipment for the program, and create culturally relevant resources like case management models and naloxone training videos.

GB Camp Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicle for Community Mobilization

Recipient: Sustainable Indigenous Solutions

Contribution agreement total: $210,995

This project will address accessibility issues by acquiring a wheelchair-accessible vehicle, enabling clients with mobility challenges to access holistic healing programs for substance use.

Returning to the land for healing

Recipient: BATTLE RIVER TREATY 6 HEALTH CENTRE INC.

Contribution agreement total: $73,600

This project seeks to enhance cultural awareness and healing for individuals and families in addiction recovery by offering a land-based healing program. Participants from Sweetgrass, Luck Man, Little Pine, and Poundmaker First Nations will have the opportunity to reconnect with the land and reclaim traditional wellness practices during a 3-month pilot program.

Knowledge Keepers and Harm Reduction in Rural Remote Yukon First Nations: Mobilizing Strengths Grounded in Culture and Community

Recipient: Vuntut Gwitchin First Nation

Contribution agreement total: $65,245

This initiative will engage Knowledge Keepers as mentors to mobilize and support community members in harm reduction and overdose prevention support activities, as well as identify ways for formal systems of care and support networks to work together more fluently.