The Government of Alberta recently announced funding “for community organizations supporting youth mental health and suicide prevention”. This program will provide a total of $3 million with $40,000 to $150,000 per fiscal year per project, however organizations can apply for two years of funding at a time. Grant program information can be found here while application guidelines can be found here. Applications for the youth suicide grant program will be accepted until April 8.
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CCVO Capacity Building webinars offer participants further learnings through a follow-up blog post from the webinar speaker. In the following post, speaker Brandy Payne answers a question regarding sick time coverage plans.
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On June 12, the Calgary City Council SPC on Community and Protective Services met to discuss funding and support for a Mental Health and Addiction Strategic Framework, approval of a Gender Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, and review of the Multilingual Communications and Engagement Policy Report. This blog post discusses the outcomes of these discussions and what Calgarians can expect moving forward.
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