Emergency Treatment Fund 2024
For the 2025 to 2026 fiscal year, Health Canada will select additional recipients from the first call for proposals in October 2024. This will allow Health Canada to continue to rapidly respond to the high demand for urgent funding needs that municipalities and Indigenous communities have already identified.
Updates regarding additional ETF funding will be made when more information becomes available.
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Call for Proposals 2024
Current status: Closed
Canada is facing a public health crisis that has left no community untouched. This crisis has been driven by a complex set of factors, including a dangerous, illegal synthetic drug supply. The tragic impacts are seen and felt among our friends, our families, and our neighbours.
That is why the Government of Canada is focused on saving lives and connecting people to evidence-based services, including treatment and recovery, as well as other supports like housing.
Building on historic health care investments, including in mental health and substance use, Budget 2024 provided $150 million over 3 years for an Emergency Treatment Fund (ETF) for municipalities and Indigenous communities to help provide rapid responses to emergent, critical needs related to the substance use and overdose crisis.
Through this 2024 national call for proposals, Health Canada's ETF will provide time-limited contribution funding to municipalities and Indigenous communities across Canada.
Application guidelines
Application requirements are explained in detail in the guidelines for applicants.
Active projects
Returning to the land for healing
Recipient: BATTLE RIVER TREATY 6 HEALTH CENTRE INC.
Contribution agreement total: $73,600
Province: Saskatchewan
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.
Beendigen's Community Healing Project
Recipient: BEENDIGEN INCORPORATED
Contribution agreement total: $141,875
Province: Ontario
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.
The Bridge
Recipient: City of Belleville
Contribution agreement total: $3,498,129
Province: Ontario
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.
The City of New Westminster's Crises Response Pilot Project
Recipient: City of New Westminster
Contribution agreement total: $1,466,230
Province: British Columbia
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.
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
Province: Ontario
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
Province: Ontario
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.
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
Province: Ontario
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.
KSCS Mobile Outreach Van
Recipient: Kahnawà:ke Shakotiia'takehnhas Community Services
Contribution agreement total: $232,476
Province: Quebec
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.
Pathways to Resilience: Marten Falls Comprehensive Healing and Treatment Program
Recipient: Marten Falls First Nation
Contribution agreement total: $1,909,367
Province: Ontario
This program will offer immediate intervention through a Mobile Response Unit staffed with trained counselors, providing crisis outreach, counseling, and culturally relevant programming, while 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.
Chatham-Kent (CK)-CORE Project (Community Overdose Response Expansion)
Recipient: Municipality of Chatham-Kent
Contribution agreement total: $574,346
Province: Ontario
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.
Ambulance Supplies and Stretcher
Recipient: Municipality of Pond Inlet
Contribution agreement total: $41,212
Territory: Nunavut
This project will purchase requisite medical supplies to equip the ambulance in the remote Inuit community of Pond Inlet, Nunavut, as well as make training on health hazards of substance use available to residents.
Kii Daanaandwengwan (The Earth is Healing Me)
Recipient: Naandwechige-Gamig Wiikwemkoong Health Centre
Contribution agreement total: $866,099
Province: Ontario
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.
Bolstering Harm Reduction Resources in Peel
Recipient: Regional Municipality of Peel
Contribution agreement total: $695,755
Province: Ontario
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.
Islands of Stability
Recipient: SUNSHINE HOUSE INC.
Contribution agreement total: $685,209
Province: Manitoba
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.
GB Camp Wheelchair-Accessible Vehicle for Community Mobilization
Recipient: Sustainable Indigenous Solutions
Contribution agreement total: $210,995
Province: Ontario
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.
Contact us
If you have any questions or would like more information, please contact the ETF CFP team by email at etf-fut@hc-sc.gc.ca.
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