Deadline: 8-Nov-24
The Health Canada is accepting submissions for the Emergency Treatment Fund to provide urgent, targeted funding to municipalities and Indigenous communities to support rapid responses to the overdose crisis.
Funding will address urgent and immediate needs, as defined by the communities, to bolster local capacity and provide access to culturally appropriate, trauma-informed and evidence-based programs and services.
Priorities
- For the ETF CFP 2024, the primary priority will be “urgency,” defined as the need for swift action in relation to the overdose crisis, as applied to an individual community’s context. In their assessments, decisions makers will consider the reach and impact of activities proposed by applicants to address this urgency. Projects must demonstrate that they are responding to urgent needs in order to be considered for funding.
Funding Information
- The maximum funding allowed per recipient is $2 million per fiscal year.
Eligible Activities
- Eligible activities under the ETF must address urgent needs related to the overdose crisis and aim to reduce pressures on communities. Activity descriptions must also clearly demonstrate how they can be achieved within proposed project timelines. These activities may include, but are not limited to:
- Activities related to capital expenditures with a strong rationale and plan for ongoing use, such as:
- Mobile outreach activities involving a vehicle purchase or retrofit
- Retrofit or repurposing of existing structures, which may include Supervised Consumption Sites, Urgent Public Health Need, or Overdose Prevention Sites to increase the number of people accessing these sites
- Drug checking services (with existing Section 56 exemptions in place) involving drug checking equipment
- Recovery support, including cultural and community programming (for example, on-the-land healing)
- Harm reduction and overdose prevention support, including access to harm reduction supplies or overdose reversal medication such as naloxone
Eligibility Criteria
- The following types of municipalities, communities and organizations are eligible for ETF funding:
- Canadian municipalities outside of Quebec (representative of the political or administrative division defined as a municipality by the laws in its respective province and territory (PT))
- Indigenous entities, including:
- First Nations
- Inuit communities
- Métis governing bodies
- Modern Treaty Holders and Self-Governing Nations
- National and regional Indigenous organizations that are legally registered or incorporated not-for-profits
- Not-for-profit Indigenous associations, organizations, and health authorities
- Note: Indigenous entities (that is, Indigenous governments and organizations) in Quebec are eligible to apply to the ETF.
Ineligibility Criteria
- Ineligible activities
- The ETF does not fund direct treatment service delivery (for example, opioid agonist therapy, establishing and maintaining treatment beds), ongoing expenditures associated with projects already receiving funding, or expenses associated with medically necessary insured health care services. It is an expectation under the ETF that eligible applicants will partner with or leverage existing programs, service providers and health professionals in their surge responses.
For more information, visit Health Canada.