Healthy Choices Fund
The Healthy Choices Fund helps eligible organizations and community governments maximize the impact of health promotion and prevention activities that support individuals, families, and communities in making positive lifestyle choices.
2019-2020 Funding Recipients
|
Organization |
Project |
Funding |
|---|---|---|
|
Aurora College |
Healthy Campuses Build Student Success |
$75,000.00 ( Multi-year Funding for 3 years-2018-2021 $25,000.00 per year from 2018 - 2021) |
|
Children First Society |
Reaching Out – Young Children and their Families |
$25,624.00 |
|
Deline Got’ine Government |
Edenats’edi: Reconnecting with Ourselves by the Sahuot’ine Nats’eju Initiative | $75,000.00 |
| Foster Family Coalition of the NWT |
Camp Connections Programming |
$10,000.00 |
|
Inuvik Native Band |
Youth Governance Enhancement |
$30,000.00 |
| Inuvik Youth Centre | IYC Nutrition Club | $15,855.00 |
| Ka’sho Got’ine Housing Society | Learning and Eating Together |
$75,000 (Multi Year Funding for 3 years – 2019 - 2023) $25,000.00 for 2019-2020 FY $25,000.00 for 2020-2021 FY $25,000.00 for 2021 – 2022 FY |
|
Liidlii Kue First Nation |
Elders Community Kitchen | $31,374.00 |
| Northern Farm Training Institute |
From the Land Food Program |
$19,950.00 |
| NWT Literacy Council |
Community Connections Health And Wellness for Newcomers |
$28,145.00 |
| Northwest Territories Health and Social Services Authority (Stanton Territorial Hospital) |
T.A.S.T.E – Time Honored Action For Sustaining Traditional Eating |
$136,027.50 Multi-Year funding for 2 years $74,052.00 for 2019 - 2020 FY $ 61,976.25 for 2020 - 2021 FY |
| Tides Canada Initiatives Society | Land to Life-Northern Youth Wellness Initiative |
$40,000.00 |
| TOTAL | $400,000.00 | |
2018-2019 Funding Recipients
|
Organization |
Project |
Funding |
|---|---|---|
|
Aurora College |
Healthy Campuses Build Student Success |
$75,000.00 (Multi-year at $25,000.00 per year from 2018 – 2021) |
|
Children First Society |
Reaching Out – Young Children and their Families |
$24,935.86 |
|
Ecology North |
#loveNWTwater for Healthy Communities |
$23,625.00 |
|
FOXY |
FOXY Sexual Health Workshop |
$60,000.00 |
|
Gwich’in Tribal Council |
Community Prevention, Prevention & Awareness Program |
$74,970.00 |
|
Inuvik Native Band |
Emergency Warming Shelter Assistant |
$50,400.00 |
|
Liidlii Kue First Nation |
Lights on Cooking Classes |
$19,293.75 |
|
Moms, Boobs & Babies |
Breastfeeding and Parent Support & Normalization Campaign |
$20,000.00 |
|
NTHSSA-Sahtu |
Parenting in the Sahtu – TRIPLE P PARENTING PROGRAM |
$30,996.74 |
|
Tetlit Gwich’in Council |
Tetlit Gwichin Men’s Initiative Project |
$ 30,778.65 |
|
Tides Canada Intiatives |
North Youth Leadership on the Land Programs |
$40,000.00 |
| TOTAL | $400,000.00 | |
Interested in applying for the Healthy Choices Fund?
For ideas and information on what others are doing, please email hcif@gov.nt.ca.