MONTREAL – Bell Let’s Talk today announced $750,000 in new grants from the Bell Let’s Talk Diversity Fund to six more organizations working to improve access to mental health care for members of Black, Indigenous and people of colour communities in Canada.
The fund provides grants for organizations working to address the impact of systemic racism on the mental health of BIPOC communities. It launched in 2020 with inaugural donations to Black Youth Helpline and the National Association of Friendship Centres, says the Bell announcement today. Groups across the country were then invited to submit expressions of interest as part of the first cycle to receive funding, and eight recipients were announced earlier this year.
Bell Let’s Talk worked with mental health experts, persons with lived experience and community leaders from BIPOC communities to select a further six organizations to receive grants from the first cycle. They are the Delta Family Resource Centre, Ontario; MOSAIC, British Columbia; Nurrait | Jeunes Karibus, Québec; On Our Own (Les Maisons Transitionnelles), Québec; TAIBU Community Health Centre, Ontario; and Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health, Ontario
Diversity Fund grants in the first cycle now amount to a total of $2.25 million.
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