Community Safety Investment Framework funding allocations

East Calgary Ambassador Program: to support those most vulnerable in the community to access referrals and to help the communities to be safe and inclusive.

$275,994

Outreach and Cultural Reconnection: to ensure urban Indigenous peoples and unhoused community members have access to necessities, mental health support, cultural support and access to vital services after crisis. Ensuring community wellness and promoting accessing community supports.

$113,000

Circle of Wisdom Elders Senior Wellness Project: to support Circle of Wisdom with in-home support, one to one support, risk assessment prior to Indigenous seniors accessing crisis services. 

$120,336

Mental Health and Addictions Outreach Initiative (MAOI) Expansion: to provide supports to street-involved people experiencing addiction and mental health issues.

$309,913

Ambassador Program: to increase the availability of non-emergency support and outreach services and to have a friendly presence in the greater downtown area. 

$467,867

Downtown Outreach Addictions Partnership (DOAP): to provide a trauma-informed, culturally aware, and timely service that reaches individuals struggling with substance use at the street level.

*Funding of this program is shared with the Calgary Police Service. The indicated funded amount reflects the contribution from the City of Calgary.

$1,086,134

Calgary Catholic Immigration Society

The Tapestry Project: To facilitate access to mental health support amongst members of Calgary’s diverse ethnocultural communities through community outreach, awareness raising, system navigation, and capacity building.

$238,699

Calgary Sexual Violence Crisis Response: to enhance sexual violence crisis services for individuals who have experienced a recent sexual assault, by providing information, options, and advocacy that empower individual survivors to choose the path to healing that best fits for them in the context of their individual lives and values.

$380,000

Sheldon Chumir Urgent Care Social Work Wrap-Around Care: to provide a responsive, expansive service for people in crisis, to address the systemic barriers those most vulnerable are having at accessing services in Calgary.

$72,500

Carya Society of Calgary

Older Adult Crisis Stabilization Outreach Team (OASCOT): To provide older adults experiencing homelessness, mental health and addictions challenges and complex needs with the necessary supports that allow them to transition to appropriate housing with wrap-around services that create the conditions to age well in community.

$575,650

Newcomers Therapeutic Crisis Intervention: to provide therapy support in first-language services for newcomer clients within the first 24 hours of receiving a referral, and offer 24/7 support for newcomer youth referrals.

$198,195

Centre For Suicide Prevention

Suicide Prevention Respite Care in Calgary: To provide timely, accessible, people-centred care for those in suicide crisis, diverting from hospitals, and creating a connecting organization in the recovery path of guests.

$2,592,400

Connect2Care Community Crisis Response: to provide timely crisis intervention for vulnerable Calgarians and to improve access to community services through care coordination and systems navigation.

$345,000

Acceleration and Integration for Impact: Community Information Exchange and Community Connect YYC Collab: To create a more integrated and impactful support system for individuals with complex needs through effective processes and technological integration.

$678,600

We Are Together: to provide supportive listening in a culturally responsive way and connect callers with community services through 24/7 non-emergency response to a crisis.

$269,519

Crisis Line Enhancement: to increase accessibility of crisis lines by providing an option of online text-based crisis support.

$35,310

Immigrant Outreach Crisis Response (IOCR): To provide East African refugees with complex mental health and psychosocial challenges with a trauma-informed and culturally appropriate crisis response that is rooted in community needs and reduce unnecessary engagement with law enforcement agencies.

$805,650

Enhancing Unison's Elder Abuse Resource Line (EARL): to ensure that Black and Racialized seniors are appropriately supported when accessing the EARL line and that supports are available to a greater number of Calgarians.  

$90,274

Kindred Connections Society

Community Connect YYC - Crisis Response and Coordination: To provide access to much needed mental health and counselling supports, including case management, for those experiencing crisis and those providing a primary response to those in need.

$1,450,070

Ladies in the Family Foundation

HERConnect: Transforming Calgary's Crisis Response System for New Immigrant (Black) Women and Girls: To provide coordinated access to immediate services as well as follow-up, in the immediate aftermath of when the crisis has occurred, for immigrant and racialized women and girls.

$400,000

Multi-disciplinary Team Coordinator and Integrated Case Management: to provide dedicated staffing responsible for integrated case management response to crisis.

$100,000

Community Response Model - Triage for Youth at Risk of Sexual Exploitation: to provide a collaborative and coordinated approach to triage and case management supports for youth at risk of or engaged in sexual exploitation in the city of Calgary. 

$176,112

Somali Canadian Society of Calgary (SCSC): to provide comprehensive, culturally-informed crisis supports.

$265,000

Nisa Homes- Outreach Services: to provide support to vulnerable and marginalized women experiencing domestic violence and poverty through outreach and remote casework.

$75,000

Quick Response Counselling: to provide quick response to those from the South Asian community in immediate need of Mental Health and Addiction counselling services.

$90,000

EXIT Program Crisis/Triage Initiative: to facilitate and support immediate safe exit from sexual exploitation for women age 16+ and their children.

$145,750

Peer Crisis Support: to support the expanded crisis triage and emergency response for clients impacted by domestic violence across Calgary.

$67,220

The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary

Heartstrings - Family Mental Health Crisis Support: To ensure that parents experiencing a mental health crisis are provided with timely support that is designed to meet the needs of not only the individual but also their family members, keeping children safe, and preserving the family in the process.

$998,880

BENCH: Building Equitable Newcomer Crisis Help: to increase engagement with and uptake of crisis services by providing equitable culturally and linguistically relevant primary crisis services for Black, Racialized, and equity-seeking groups that address current barriers

$550,000

SEEDreach: to provide more accessible care to individuals experiencing crisis and streamline access to other services.

$296,000

United Way of Calgary and Area Calgary Situation Table

To support the design and pilot of a model which convenes a cross-sector 'triage' table to collaboratively develop immediate, coordinated, and integrated crisis response by mobilizing existing resources.

$290,470

Strengthening Family and Youth Crisis Response Services: to provide immediate and no-cost crisis support to clients from professional crisis counsellors to children, youth, and families.

$285,000

East Calgary Ambassador Program: to support those most vulnerable in the community to access referrals and to help the communities to be safe and inclusive.

Outreach and Cultural Reconnection during COVID: to ensure community members have access to basic necessities, mental health support, cultural support, and access to vital services during the crisis.

Circle of Wisdom Elders and Seniors Centre: to provide 24-hour access-wrap around support service to Elders/seniors and families in crisis.

Mental Health and Addictions Outreach Initiative (MAOI) Expansion: to provide supports to street-involved people experiencing addiction and mental health issues.

Homeless Street Outreach: to refer clients to the appropriate services such as housing, based on the individual situation.

Alpha House Ambassadors: to increase the availability of non-emergency support and outreach services and to have a friendly presence in the greater downtown area. 

Downtown Outreach Addictions Partnership (DOAP): to provide a trauma-informed, culturally aware, and timely service that reaches individuals struggling with substance use at the street level.

Downtown Ambassadors: to provide a safer environment and to respond to the physical and mental health needs of those experiencing vulnerabilities in the Downtown area. 

Sheldon Chumir Health Centre Urgent Care: to provide a responsive, expansive service for people in crisis, to address the systemic barriers those most vulnerable are having at accessing services in Calgary.

Extreme Weather Response: to support ongoing planning and collaboration among community organizations and City services to coordinate services that help keep Calgarians experiencing homelessness healthier and safer during extreme weather events.  

Connect2Care Community Crisis Response: to provide timely crisis intervention for vulnerable Calgarians and to improve access to community services through care coordination and systems navigation.

Enhancing Crisis Services to Those at Risk of Suicide: to provide immediate, single point, multiple modality access for Calgarians in suicidal crisis and their families, and provide 24/7 wrap-around support to individuals at risk of suicide.

We Are Together: to provides supportive listening in a culturally responsive way and connect callers with community services through 24/7 non-emergency response to a crisis.

Supporting High Risk Youth Leaving Homelessness: to enhance the support provided to youth, utilizing a trauma informed counsellor during these critical hours, and reducing the impact on emergency services.

Community Response Model - Triage for Youth at Risk of Sexual Exploitation: to provide a collaborative and coordinated approach to triage and case management supports for youth at risk of or engaged in sexual exploitation in the city of Calgary. 

Nisa Homes- Outreach Services: to provide support to vulnerable and marginalized women experiencing domestic violence and poverty through outreach and remote casework. 

Emergency Safe Shelter and Immediate Trauma-Informed Outreach Support for Women: to offer an immediate safe place for women who want to exit sexual exploitation and to provide community outreach response.

Quick Response Counselling: to provide quick response to those from the South Asian community in immediate need of Mental Health and Addiction counselling services.

EXIT Program Crisis/Triage Initiative: to facilitate and support immediate safe exit from sexual exploitation for women age 16+ and their children. 

Domestic Violence Crisis Support - COVID-19 Emergency Response: to support the expanded crisis triage and emergency response for clients impacted by domestic violence across Calgary.

The Mustard Seed Mobile Health Advocacy and Addictions Project: to provide more accessible care to individuals experiencing crisis and streamline access to other services.

Sustainable Families - Harm Reduction Therapist: to provides immediate, mobile and flexible therapeutic services to families experiencing chronic and episodic homelessness. 

Níkso'kowaiksi: to support youth and families with additional 1:1 outreach and cultural support to reduce barriers Indigenous people face and help families through a crisis by tackling the gaps in services.

Strengthening Family and Youth Crisis Response Services: to provide immediate and no-cost crisis support to clients from professional crisis counsellors to children, youth, and families. 

East Calgary Ambassador Program: to support those most vulnerable in the community to access referrals and to help the communities to be safe and inclusive.

Outreach and Cultural Reconnection during COVID: to ensure community members have access to basic necessities, mental health support, cultural support, and access to vital services during the crisis.

Circle of Wisdom Elders and Seniors Centre: to provide 24-hour access-wrap around support service to Elders/seniors and families in crisis.

Mental Health and Addictions Outreach Initiative (MAOI) Expansion: to provide supports to street-involved people experiencing addiction and mental health issues.

Homeless Street Outreach: to refer clients to the appropriate services such as housing, based on the individual situation.

Sustainable Families - Harm Reduction Therapist: to provides immediate, mobile and flexible therapeutic services to families experiencing chronic and episodic homelessness.

Níkso'kowaiksi: to support youth and families with additional 1:1 outreach and cultural support to reduce barriers Indigenous people face and help families through a crisis by tackling the gaps in services.

Downtown Outreach Addictions Partnership (DOAP): to improve immediate connection to services to individuals presenting in crisis in the downtown.

Downtown Ambassadors: to provide a safer environment and to respond to the physical and mental health needs of those experiencing vulnerabilities in the Downtown area.

Mobile Integrated Healthcare: to provide more fulsome, wrap-around support for vulnerable Calgarians to reduce reliance on the emergency based system.

Sheldon Chumir Health Centre Urgent Care: to provide a responsive, expansive service for people in crisis, to address the systemic barriers those most vulnerable are having at accessing services in Calgary. 

SeniorConnect: to identify and respond to older adults who are at risk or crisis, by addressing and preventing issues related to social isolation.

Connect2Care Community Crisis Response: to provide timely crisis intervention for vulnerable Calgarians and to improve access to community services through care coordination and systems navigation.

Enhancing Crisis Services to Those at Risk of Suicide: to provide immediate, single point, multiple modality access for Calgarians in suicidal crisis and their families, and provide 24/7 wrap-around support to individuals at risk of suicide.

We Are Together: to provides supportive listening in a culturally responsive way and connect callers with community services through 24/7 non-emergency response to a crisis.

Supporting High Risk Youth Leaving Homelessness: to enhance the support provided to youth, utilizing a trauma informed counsellor during these critical hours, and reducing the impact on emergency services.

Community Response Model - Triage for Youth at Risk of Sexual Exploitation: to provide a collaborative and coordinated approach to triage and case management supports for youth at risk of or engaged in sexual exploitation in the city of Calgary.

Emergency Safe Shelter and Immediate Trauma-Informed Outreach Support for Women: to offer an immediate safe place for women who want to exit sexual exploitation and to provide community outreach response.

Nisa Homes - Outreach Services: to provide support to vulnerable and marginalized women experiencing domestic violence and poverty through outreach and remote casework.

Quick Response Counselling: to provide quick response to those from the South Asian community in immediate need of Mental Health and Addiction counselling services.

EXIT Program Crisis/Triage Initiative: to facilitate and support immediate safe exit from sexual exploitation for women age 16+ and their children.

Domestic Violence Crisis Support - COVID-19 Emergency Response: to support the expanded crisis triage and emergency response for clients impacted by domestic violence across Calgary.

The Mustard Seed Mobile Health Advocacy and Addictions Project: to provide more accessible care to individuals experiencing crisis and streamline access to other services.

Strenghthening Family and Youth Crisis Response Services: to provide immediate and no-cost crisis support to clients from professional crisis counsellors to children, youth, and families.

The Future of Calgary’s Crisis Response System: to build an evidence base on best practice research, analysis and stakeholder engagement to identify opportunities to transform the crisis prevention and response system.