The Public Health Agency of Canada’s Mental Health Promotion Innovation Fund (MHP-IF) seeks to learn about promising approaches for advancing mental health promotion among young Canadians, with an emphasis on increasing health equity. The MHP-IF is a 10-year investment that started in 2019. The first phase focused on the design, development, delivery and initial testing of project interventions, partnership development, and creating conditions for long-term success. The second phase focused on full implementation, adaptation, assessment, scaling and evaluation of the interventions across multiple populations, communities and settings, including the development of vested partnerships and networks. The third phase further focuses on scaling and system-wide impact for sustainability.
Twenty projects were funded in Phase 1, fifteen continued to Phase 2, and ten continued to Phase 3.
Agenda Gap (Phase 1)
Authentic Social Identity and Mental Health Project (Phase 1)
Celebrating Culture, Celebrating Life (Phase 1)
Connect: Supporting Kinship & Foster Parents (Phase 1)
Do You Mind? (Phase 1)
Enhanced Wellness of Refugee Children, Youth, and Families (Phase 1)
Families in TRANSition (Phase 1)
FOXY Mental Health Intervention (Phase 1)
Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub (Phase 1)
La santé mentale, on s’en parle! (Phase 1)
Mind Your Food (Phase 1)
Nation of Wellness (Phase 1)
Nurturing Child Development and Well Being in Refugee Children and Families (Phase 1)
Nurturing the future (Phase 1)
Nurturing the Seed: The Journey to Infant/Early Mental Health & Wellness (Phase 1)
Agenda Gap
Celebrating Culture, Celebrating Life
Connect: Supporting Birth, Kinship & Foster Parents
Enhanced Wellness of Newcomer Children, Youth, and Families
Families in TRANSition
FOXY Mental Health Intervention
Inuusirvik Community Wellness Hub
Nurturing the future
Nurturing the Seed: The Journey to Infant/Early Mental Health & Wellness
Programme HORS-PISTE
Right To Food
Steps to CALM (Children and Adolescents Learning Mental Wellness)
STRONG
The Cedar Path
Visionary Youth Peers for Equity and Revitalization (VYPER)
Agenda Gap
Youth-led policy advocacy to promote adolescent mental health and advance health equity across socioecological domains This youth engagement and capacity…
Enhanced Wellness (NEEDS)
Enhanced Wellness of Newcomer Children, Youth, and Families The project aims to address multiple factors that influence the overall mental…
FOXY Mental Health Intervention
This intervention uses the arts to focus on cultural identity and developing coping skills, social and emotional skills, and prosocial…
Mind Your Food
The Mind Your Food project is co-developing, implementing, testing, and evaluating a community-based program that builds protective factors for mental…
Nurturing the future
French-speaking early childhood educators in Ontario often have fewer opportunities to strengthen their skills to support children’s socio-emotional development than…
Nurturing the Seed
Nurturing the Seed: The Journey to Infant/Early Mental Health & Wellness Nurturing the Seed (NTS) is an Indigenous-led infant and…
Programme HORS PISTE
The HORS-PISTE program targets students and aims to enable them to better deal with developmental challenges in order to prevent…
Steps to CALM
Steps to CALM (Children and Adolescents Learning Mental Wellness) The Strongest Families Institute is expanding the delivery of the Parents…
STRONG
Supporting Transition Resilience of Newcomer Groups (STRONG) STRONG is a small group intervention developed to promote resilience and reduce psychological…
VYPER
Visionary Youth Peers for Equity and Revitalization (VYPER) VYPER (Visionary Youth Peers for Equity and Revitalization) is a youth-governed group…