This funding cycle focused on projects for families with dependent children, where one or more family members is impacted by mental illness, problematic substance use, and/or unhealed trauma.
Funds were awarded in 2014 to sixteen (16) projects that demonstrated the potential to improve the social and emotional wellbeing of family members, by developing connections in one of two funding streams – Stream 1: Culture and Spirituality, or Stream 2: Community and Neighbourhood.
Grant Recipients
Project Connect Freedom Quest Regional Youth Services
The Hasadeendee Program - Lakes District Family Enhancement Society
Together We Can - MIKI’SIW Métis Association
Positive Acceptance, Trust and Healing - Nenan Dane zaa Deh Zona Family Services Society
Helping Each Other - Tsawwassen First Nation
Circles of Belonging - Vancouver Aboriginal Community Policing Centre Society
Vancouver Indigenous Elders Partnership - Vancouver Native Health Society
Caring for the Caregivers - CMHA Kelowna and District
Strengthening Families, First Nations Edition - BC Schizophrenia Society
KinPark Urban Farm for Families - Cowichan Green Community Society
Youth Powered, Lens on Life - DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society
Therapeutic Horticulture Program - DRS Earthwise Society
Farm Friends Mental Illness Family Support Centre
The Place Nanaimo Women’s Resources Society
Refugee Mental Health Access Richmond Family Place Society
Resilient Communities Upper Skeena Development Centre Society
