Meet the organizations that received funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund in 2022-2023.
| Organization name | Project title | Funding amount | Project summary |
|---|---|---|---|
| Homelessness | |||
| Ottawa Innercity Ministries | The Innercity Veterans Operation Open Doors Project | $100,000 | The project will target underserved Veterans seeking community with other Veterans, including women, gender diverse, LGBTQ+, Indigenous, racialized, equity seeking groups to decrease isolation through peer support and regular social events. |
| Mission Old Brewery | Projet ACTION SENTINELLES | $45,000 | The project will improve current services offered by expanding support to Veterans in precarious situations. The objective is the creation of three support services (employability, contingency and social life) to assist participants in their residential journey. |
| Fredericton Homeless Shelters Inc. | Veteran Homelessness Project | $100,000 | The project will assist Veterans living through the crisis of homelessness and the associated challenges. |
| Veterans’ House Canada | Veterans’ House: The Andy Carswell Building Next Phase | $200,000 | The project will enhance services provided to Veteran tenants in a 40-unit facility in Ottawa. This includes providing fully funded programs and hiring a facilitator to work with formerly homeless Veterans. |
| Veterans Emergency Transition Services (VETS) Canada | Ground Support for Veterans | $500,000 | The project will provide immediate support to Veterans who are homeless, at risk of becoming homeless or otherwise in crisis. The intention is to alleviate or even eliminate any barriers to Veterans leading a safe and stable life in the civilian world. |
| Indigenous | |||
| Southern Chiefs’ Organization | Supporting the Well-Being of First Nations Veterans in Manitoba | $500,000 | The project will engage First Nations Veterans to inform the development of culturally relevant programming and services in southern Manitoba. First Nations Veterans are an underserved group who will benefit from community building, increased access to social supports and systems navigation. |
| Employment/Retraining | |||
| Team Rubicon Canada | The Incident Command System for Veterans in Emergency Management (ICS for Vets in EM) |
$500,000 | The project will provide free emergency management education to transitioning Veterans through instruction on the Incident Command System. This includes planning, coordination, and implementation of Incident Command system training across Canada virtually, with more advanced training in on-site locations, enhancing participants’ employability in emergency management. |
| True Patriot Love | Veteran Volunteerism Initiative | $500,000 | The project harnesses Veterans' propensity to serve and addresses the loss of purpose and connection that can occur after leaving the military. The project will design a National Action Plan on Veteran Volunteerism that will support determinants of well-being. |
| Helmets to Hardhats | The Skills Outreach Project | $300,000 | The project will raise awareness and facilitate opportunities in the skilled trades for Indigenous CAF Veterans, serving Reservists, including the Canadian Rangers, and members of their immediate families. |
| Mental Health | |||
| Théâtre des Petites Lanternes | Projet Monarques | $75,000 | The project will involve Veterans in the production of a show (e.g,. writing, acting, crew). On stage, the actors condense the voices of hundreds of Veterans, military personnel and their loved ones. The goal is to testify to the daily life of those affected by operational stress injuries. |
| Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of British Columbia | Crisis Care Continuum for Veterans | $60,000 | The project will provide suicide prevention training to community members and organizations that work with Veterans. Veterans will also have access to 24/7 crisis services and community education. |
| Veteran’s Memorial Medical Centre Society | Veteran Engagement, Outreach, and Crisis-Intervention | $200,000 | The project will expand program delivery, peer support, navigator services, and crisis-intervention through the use of digital engagement technology. This will result in more Veteran’s being served and improvements to Veteran health determinants. |
| Moving Forward Family Services | Veteran Wellness and Community Support Program | $200,000 | The project will offer counselling for Veterans with mental health problems, isolation, and everyday challenges integrating back to life after service, using a proven model of over 200 supervised interns to support those otherwise unable to afford or qualify for counselling. |
| Veterans Transition Network | VTN’s National Para Support Team (NPST) | $200,000 | The project will train hundreds of Veterans to provide high-level peer support and paraprofessional counseling to support mental health, social integration, and self-care for other Veterans. |
| Trilogy Wellness Centre (formerly Beacon House) | Trilogy Wellness Centre (formerly Beacon House) | $500,000 | The project will provide walk-in urgent mental health services for all Veterans and families in PEI and serve as an outreach centre for transition support, education, and referral programs. |
| Legion Veterans Village | Legion Veterans Village | $500,000 | Legion Veterans Village, the $312 M first of its kind integrated centre of excellence, offers a personalized therapeutics program. The project will use multi-disciplinary services to accelerate effects of multi-modal therapeutics on symptoms of Brain Fog and Long-COVID. |
| Families | |||
| Wounded Warriors Canada | Couples Overcoming PTSD Everyday (COPE) | $500,000 | The project will provide Veterans suffering from PTSD a five-day counselling, psychoeducation, structured reflection, life review method, group discussion facilitated by two clinicians, Life Experience Peer Couple, and six months of Life Coaching. |
| Research | |||
| Sunnybrook Foundation | Improving Mental Health and PTSD Outcomes for Veterans through Neuromodulation | $500,000 | Sunnybrook’s Harquail Centre for Neuromodulation’s clinical work enables us to build awareness of neuromodulation therapies and advocate for their use. This three-year project aims to expand neuromodulation interventions to a broader network of patients with PTSD, anxiety, addiction and depression. |
| Governors of the University of Alberta | Canadian Military, Veteran and Family Connected Campus Consortium (CMVF3C) | $200,000 | The Canadian Military, Veteran and Family Connected Campus Consortium (CMVF3C) aims to support the academic and employment success of Veteran students and their families. This project will (1) develop a Knowledge Mobilization Hub and (2) advance the CMVF3C through a Symposium. |
| Women | |||
| The Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC) | Mental Health Determinants and Help-Seeking Needs of Canadian Veteran Women Over the Life Course | $250,000 | Using a gender lens, a nation-wide study with Veteran women will identify factors associated with mental health outcomes, help-seeking needs and preferences across life stages. The findings will guide gender-sensitive initiatives to better meet the unique challenges and needs of Veteran women. |
| Canadian Women’s Wellness Initiative | Continuing Outreach to Veterans and Families with an Innovative Approach to Well-being | $70,000 | The Project offers stress reduction training in the field-tested Transcendental Meditation program to both male and female Veterans and their family members experiencing elevated levels of stress, OSI, or PTSD. This program significantly reduces stress, develops resiliency, and improves well-being. |