Funding supports on-the-ground initiatives to:

• Promote Youth Leadership
  • Support Indigenous youth to plan and establish a youth leadership forum
  • Support Indigenous youth engagement in community projects that promote environmental, social, spiritual, and physical well-being through the Ontario Indigenous Youth Partnership Project
• Build Pathways to Wellness
  • Support the work of five remote communities in Nishnawbe Aski Nation and Grand Council Treaty 3 to develop and implement community wellness plans
• Support Youth and Families on Their Healing Journey
  • Revitalize the Stormer Lake Family Wellness Centre in Pikangikum First Nation, so those affected by trauma and their families can heal together, and invest in a community-owned database to identify mental health service needs and priorities
• Connect Youth to Their Land and Culture
  • Expand Right To Play’s Hockey for Development Clinic in Fort Severn
  • Provide funding to extend the Promoting Life-skills in Aboriginal Youth (PLAY) program to more than 60 First Nation communities
  • Fund Jays Care Foundation’s investments in youth champions in James Bay Coast and Grand Council Treaty 3 communities to lead activities and events in their communities

Fund Outside Looking In, which is creating opportunities and safe spaces for Indigenous youth through dance at Dennis Franklin Cromarty high school and surrounding communities