Community Counselling Grants

The Community Action Initiative (CAI), in partnership with the Ministry of Mental Health and Addictions and Overdose Emergency Response Center (OERC), has funding available for Community Wellness & Harm Reduction Grants. Harm reduction aims to keep people and communities safe and to empower people with lived or living experience (PWLLE) of substance use to join service providers in determining the best interventions to reduce harms and increase individual and community wellness. The evidence shows that harm reduction promotes health, improves social outcomes, and has other benefits for PWLLE, their families and our broader communities.

• The purpose of the Community Wellness & Harm Reduction Grants is to support municipalities in developing partnerships to provide focused, action-oriented harm reduction projects or initiatives, tailored to local needs, that address substance-related harms and increase community wellness. Harm Reduction services are an essential health service and a foundational component of British Columbia's comprehensive substance use continuum of care, particularly in the context of the current overdose emergency.

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