Wounded Warriors Canada: federal grants and contributions: 8 agreements; $3.4M value; 2 departments; 4 programs.
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Wounded Warriors Canada, established in 2006, is the country's leading, independent Veterans’ charity focusing on mental health. Wounded Warriors Canada will implement the “Surviving Spouses” program using funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being Fund. This five-day program provides the opportunity for survivors to explore their traumatic loss and to make meaning of their life without their spouse. This program helps participants recognize the function of emotions and offers evidence-based opportunities to understand and process grief.
In order to continue operations during the Covid pandemic this organization is receiving funding.
Building on the results of the VAC efficacy study, funding from the VFWBF would enable the WWC PTSD Service Dog program to expand its capacity in an effor tto reduce existing waitlists. The partnership would lead to an expanded, secure and credible source of PTSD service dog funding that would reinforce the importance of the need to ensure that PTSD service dogs meet or exceed the published standards available in Canada.
The project will provide Veterans suffering from PTSD a five-day counselling, psychoeducation, structured reflection, life review method, group discussion facilitated by two clinicians, Life Experience Peer Couple, and six months of Life Coaching.
Wounded Warriors Canada is a national mental health service provider using clinical best practices and evidence-based care to create an environment of compassion, resiliency and hope for Canada's Veterans, First Responders and their families. Funding from the Veteran and Family Well-Being will allow Wounded Warriors to implement the “Warrior Kids Program”, which designed for children exposed to the secondary effects of trauma as a result of a Veteran or First Responder parent struggling with the effects of operational stress injuries such as PTSD.
This project will expand access to the existing Wounded Warriors Canada Warrior Kids Program, both with an additional in-person camp session and access to their virtual program.
Wounded Warriors Canada COPE Program
This project provides outreach and education through a series of survivor-centered, trauma-informed workshops delivered in collaboration with the Survivor Perspectives Consulting Group (SPCG). Led by Wounded Warriors Canada, the training addresses sexual misconduct within the Department of National Defence (DND) and the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF), featuring firsthand accounts from survivors of military sexual trauma (MST). The workshops are designed to help participants recognize, address, and prevent sexual harassment and assault, equipping them with strategies to create safer, more respectf
Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – Canada. Source: Government of Canada proactive disclosure of grants and contributions (open.canada.ca, dataset 432527ab-7aac-45b5-81d6-7597107a7013), 1,327,352 rows as published, collapsed to one agreement per agreement number (per reference number where none is given) at its latest amendment, which carries the full agreement value. Years are the agreement start year. Agreements with individuals are counted but not named.