Community Prevention Project Grants

AHS-AADAC recognizes the importance of communities in developing projects that educate, prevent and/or reduce the harms related to alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and gambling problems. Community organizations and groups can identify issues, clarify needs and deliver projects relevant to their particular community.

While the overall focus of the grant funding continues to support prevention initiatives that are driven by priorities defined within the community, we also encourage agencies and communities to consider developing projects that could create local synergy with the current national and provincial focus on reducing alcohol-related harm.

While the grant funding continues to support prevention initiatives that are driven by needs defined within the community, priority will be given to projects that focus on:

• Supporting the implementation of the Kids and Drugs program. Funding could be used for marketing and advertising, facility and hosting expenses, travel to send facilitators for training, etc.
  
  
• Universal prevention/mental wellness strategies like positive youth development through promotion of protective factors and assets, adoption of youth engagement strategies, peer leadership/ education / support, adult mentoring, etc. Funding could be used for sending facilitators to training, developing social marketing materials, buying resources, implementing programs, etc.
  
  
• Reducing regular, heavy drinking among young Albertans, aged 15-29 years (could target key risk/protective factors in the school, community, family or workplace).
  
  
• Developing or sustaining Community Tobacco Reduction or Drug Coalitions.
  

  To encourage community-based responses and to share the responsibility for community response to identified issues, AHS-AADAC consults with eligible non-profit agencies and provides grant funding (up to $5,000). Eligibility is based on your agency’s capability and capacity to complete a project that educates people in your community about the harms related to alcohol, tobacco, other drugs and gambling, and prevents/reduces those harms.

  Call for Applications

  Application deadline is Friday, February 13, 2009 at 4:30 p.m.

  NOTE: Applicants are required to consult with their local AHS-AADAC office about their project idea prior to completing this application, to ensure the proposed project reflects best practices in prevention and is not a duplication of service, and to discuss local AHS-AADAC role (if any) in project implementation. For Coalition Funding, you are required to register your coalition and AHS-AADAC or AHS-AADAC Funded Agency representation on the coalition is a prerequisite.

  • Community Prevention Project Grant - Application Form