Keep up to date with the Community Action Initiative news & updates below.
The Community Action Initiative provides grant and training opportunities for community-based organizations across BC to develop and deliver innovative projects that respond to the needs of individuals and families experiencing mental health and/or substance use challenges.
International Overdose Awareness Day is a global event held on August 31 each year, aiming to spread the message that the tragedy of overdose death is preventable. It also[...]
Written by: Tanis Oldenburger – Peer Project Coordinator I have had many jobs at restaurant and offices where I have felt that I am easily replaceable, just an accessory employee, not[...]
Written by: Janine Stevenson – Director of Strategic Initiatives & Special Projects, Dakota Fayant-McLeod – Communications Coordinator With a focus on Indigenous Harm Reduction methods of support and education we[...]
For many of us, National Indigenous Peoples Day may take a different format than an in-person celebration of First Nations, Métis and Inuit peoples and cultures, but there is still[...]
Today’s Provincial budget announcement of $500M in new funding for expanded mental health and substance use services is critical to the delivery of programs and resources that support the mental[...]
Written by: Prairie Chiu, Project Manager – Overdose Prevention and Education Network (OPEN) OPEN’s grantees have not only been measured by the success of its strategies or projects, but by the[...]
Vancouver Island Counselling Centre for Immigrants and Refugees (VICCIR) was founded in 2015. Driven by the determination to create a safe haven for immigrants and refugees on Vancouver Island, co-founders[...]
Photographing Beyond ‘Needle-in-Puddle’ Jesse Winter, a photojournalist based in Vancouver, published an article in the Tyee exploring the role that photojournalism may play in altering the public’s perception of the[...]
“Ensuring CAT partners use the “nothing about us, without us” philosophy to guide engagement creates an equitable landscape rather than an equal landscape, which helps to potentially form trusting relationships.”[...]
