Deadline: 28-May-25
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) is inviting eligible organizations to submit applications for funding for projects that prevent and address child maltreatment.
Child maltreatment is a serious and prevalent public health issue, with both immediate and long-term health and social impacts that affect children, families, and communities across Canada. Child maltreatment is also a risk factor for violence in relationships later in life. Preventing child maltreatment and its health impacts is a crucial measure to enable physical, mental, social and spiritual wellbeing throughout the life course.
The Public Health Agency of Canada (PHAC) supports health promotion interventions to prevent and address child maltreatment and its impacts. These can include, for example, interventions that:
- build skills and knowledge for safe and healthy relationships
- identify and address factors that put families and children at risk of child maltreatment
- address community and societal-level factors to prevent child maltreatment
- equip service providers with evidence-based training and resources to help prevent child maltreatment and its health impacts
Objectives
- The overall objectives of this call for proposals are to:
- prevent and address child maltreatment by delivering and testing health promotion interventions to support children, families and caregivers
- build and share evidence of effective approaches to prevent and address child maltreatment
- build the capacity of service providers to prevent and address child maltreatment
- Applicants are invited to apply for funding for a project that addresses at least one of the following two key action areas:
- Deliver a health promotion intervention that prevents or addresses child maltreatment
- Equip service providers to prevent, recognize and respond safely to child maltreatment, through training, resources and or other supports and mechanisms
Funding Information
- Applicants can apply for up to $1,500,000 in total per project.
Duration
- Projects can last for a minimum of 3 years and a maximum of 5 years.
- Applicants outside of Quebec should plan a start date of April 1, 2026.
- Organizations from the province of Quebec that are subject to the Act Respecting the Ministère du Conseil exécutif (Act M-30) should plan a start date of July 1, 2026.
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible applicants include:
- Canadian not-for-profit organizations
- Canadian organizations and institutions supported primarily by provincial and territorial governments (regional health authorities, schools, post-secondary institutions, etc.)
- Canadian research organizations or academic institutions
- Indigenous governments and Indigenous not-for-profit organizations
- Applicants and collaborators must have the necessary experience and knowledge to deliver the project. Together, applicants must demonstrate the following:
- Expertise in intervention research
- Experience working on child maltreatment issues and
- Organizational and operational capacity to manage the proposed project activities and budget
For more information, visit Government of Canada.