Notice of Call for Family and Community Support Services grant proposals

Medicine Hat – The City of Medicine Hat is accepting proposals the Family and Community Support Services (FCSS) grant from now through April 1, 2024, at 3 p.m.

Program proposals must focus on preventive social services that benefit residents of Medicine Hat for a two-year period. Applicants must be not-for-profit and must meet the FCSS criteria to be considered.

Areas of need that may be prioritized for funding allocations for the 2024-2025 funding period, as current provincial prevention priorities, include proactive programs to address these social issues:

• • Homelessness and Housing Insecurity
  • Mental Health and Addiction
  • Employment
  • Family and Sexual Violence Across the Lifespan
  • Aging Well in Community

The FCSS Regulation provides further direction that services provided under a local program must do one or more of the following:

• • Help people to develop independence, strengthen coping skills and become more resistant to crisis.
  • Help people to develop an awareness of social needs.
  • Help people to develop interpersonal and group skills which enhance constructive relationships among people.
  • Help people and communities to assume responsibility for decisions and actions which affect them.
  • Provide supports that help sustain people as active participants in the community.

Online information sessions will be held on Monday, March 11 from 12 - 1 p.m. or Wednesday, March 21 from 12 – 1 p.m. Please contact Bonyar@medicinehat.ca at least one day prior to the date of the session to register for a session. The online session will be hosted through Microsoft teams, and you will be sent an invitation and link to the session after you register.

For more information, call Shona at (403) 502-8718 or by email at shodic@medicinehat.ca. For grant guidelines, and online application forms. visit medicinehat.ca/grants.

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