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Canadian Rural Partnership
Previous Programs 
Pilot Projects 2001-2002 (Round 4) The Canadian Rural Partnership has approved roughly $2.3 million in funding for 82 pilot projects in 2001-2002. These projects aim to strengthen rural communities in Canada.
Newfoundland & Labrador YOUTHnet: Interactive Online Youth Counselling Service Project number: NF-0030-2001-E YOUTHnet will provide an online chat room, Web page, bulletin board posting and quick response e-mail system to enable youth to access counselling, support and information on a variety of health and life issues. Funding: $50,000 Enhancing Literacy Through Technology: A Community Centred Initiative Project number: NF-0038-2001-E This project, based on the concept of e-learning, will place computers in the homes of Deer Lake Community Learning Centre clients who are unable to attend the Centre, to allow them to complete the first level of the Centre’s literacy program. Funding: $35,000 Career Opportunities Enhancement Project number: NF-0068-2001-E Through this project, rural and Aboriginal youth with a high school education or less will be offered weekly workshops involving extensive research on various careers, as well as a field trip to St. John’s to explore numerous educational institutions. Funding: $17,110 Independence Through Information: Peer Advocacy for Seniors Project number: NF-0069-2001-E This project will assist seniors in forming local peer advocate groups in rural areas in Newfoundland, with ongoing support and reinforcement to ensure the groups’ growth and independence as a local resource. Funding: $31,016 An Adult Day Support Program Project number: NF-0081-2001-E This project will be establish a gathering place for the rural residents of Peterview, NFLD and surrounding communities, particularly those with disabilities, to participate in social activities, develop life skills and improve their knowledge of health issues, the legal system, government departments and other relevant services. Funding: $8,686 A Model that Enhances Community Development Project number: NF-0087-2001-E This project will test the Bridging the Gap: From Education to Employment model, which provides rural residents with onsite academic and technical training at partnering resource-based companies. The goal of this project is to increase the academic and workplace skills of potential employees, thereby ensuring that partnering companies have a productive workforce. Funding: $22,193 Facilitating Leadership in Family Literacy in Rural Communities Project number: NF-0100-2001-E The Vista School District will employ a Family Resource Facilitator to work in several rural communities to assist in developing leadership skills and the knowledge base required to establish family literacy/learning initiatives. Funding: $28,566
Prince Edward Island Youth Entrepreneurial Society for Information Technology Project number: PE-0043-2001-E This project will allow young entrepreneurs to develop their business and computer skills, by providing training, equipment, office space and a community where youth entrepreneurs can share ideas and learn. Funding: $40,000 
Nova Scotia
Strengthening Rural Families Project Project number: NS-0021-2001-E This project will provide a comprehensive social skills training program for rural families at high risk for drug use, with the goal of improving the family environment and the parents' ability to nurture and provide appropriate learning opportunities for their children. Funding: $10,962 All Ages/All Stages Project number: NS-0022-2001-E This project will involve several hundred children in stimulating workshops, theatre productions and dramalabs. Out of this will come summer employment, two months of valuable training in theatre arts, and enjoyable, educational, summer entertainment. Funding: $37,245 Nova Scotia Health Network Project number: NS-0035-2001-E Through this project, a Web site will be created to provide a province-wide consumer health information service through the cooperative efforts of public libraries, the Canadian Health Network, the Nova Scotia Provincial Library and CAP sites. Funding: $42,708 Hants Shore Infrastructure Development Project Project number: NS-0228-2001-E This project will develop recreational, educational, cultural and tourist facilities, bringing together 14 communities of the Hants Shore region. In the process, community members will have the opportunity to learn new skills, develop leadership skills and find a common focus for this rural area. Funding: $23,500 Communications Development and Skills Transfer Project number: NS-0255-2001-E This project aims to inform and empower the communities in Whitney Pier, Cape Breton by promoting the development of skills in various types of communication forms, especially for women who face barriers to employment. Funding: $30,400 Community Based Research for Habitat Conservation Project number: NS-0232-2001-E This project will test and develop a new product for buffering the Salmon River to improve this freshwater habitat and provide the basis for fish population recovery. All facets of the river environment, including salmon population levels, water quality and invertebrate species, will be monitored throughout the project. Funding: $33,000
New Brunswick
Project number: NB-0016-2001-E Working toward the co-ordination of support services for survivors of sexual assault throughout New Brunswick, this project will also undertake education, awareness and prevention services for sexual assault and sexual violence. Funding: $30,000 Preventing Homelessness Through Community-Based Employment Opportunities for At-Risk Rural Youth Project number: NB-0179-2001-E This projects aims to identify, motivate and engage socially and economically marginalized rural youth in acquiring life skills and technical competence through active participation in community enterprises, which will increase their options for employability and reduce their risk of homelessness, poverty and criminal activity. Funding: $40,000 Riding the Wave - Youth in Action Team Project number: NB-0213-2001-E This project is designed to enhance follow-up activities of the Making Waves project, which educates and involves teens in dating violence prevention activities and develops resources materials for teens, teachers, guidance counsellors and school administrators. Funding: $32,000 Non-Timber Forest Products Research and Demonstration Partnership Project number: NB-0217-2001-E This project will create research trials and demonstration sites to monitor the ecological effects of different management regimes and levels of harvesting for non-timber forest products, while examining the economic potential of three selected non-timber forest species. Funding: $35,000 Training of the Trainers — Providing Community Capacity to Respond to Wildlife in Rural Areas Project number: NB-0207-2001-E The project will strengthen community leadership and foster strategic partnerships by developing a specialized, community-based wildlife response training. This unique training will be given to provide interested individuals the capabilities and resources to handle endangered wildlife situations in rural areas. Funding: $33,800
Québec Le rendez-vous des marcheurs Project No.: QC-0009-2001-F St-Clément, Lower St-Lawrence Le rendez-vous des marcheurs is a project aimed at promoting the rural development of the Lower St-Lawrence by means of a value-added recreation and tourism project. As a result of this initiative, a kit will be produced to guide other rural communities in the development of thematic gateways, offering visitors the opportunity to discover the specific character of rural communities and to understand them better. The kit will be made available. Funding: $45,386 Community economic development and training: a promising partnership Project No.: QC-0052-2001-F Scottstown, Eastern Townships The project follows from a citizenship training initiative taken by the residents of Scotstown. It proposes a comprehensive action in terms of evaluation, training, learning practice, and replication with community partners, in order to improve individual and collective living conditions in rural communities, as part of an endogenous and sustainable development approach. The results and learning will be shared. Funding: $7,000 Recreation as a youth development vector in the RCM of Acton Project No.: QC-0059-2001-F Acton Vale, Montérégie The project aims to increase active recreation for adolescents. It consists in testing and disseminating an "active democracy consultation model" involving a problem-solving approach with community partners and stakeholders. The goals of the project are to strengthen capacities and leadership and to enhance local recreation potential and resources. The model and its results will be made available. Funding: $10,133 Innovative Learning and Work Opportunities in Nunavik Project number: QC-0063-2001-E Nunavik, Northern Quebec Aimed at helping the whole village of Kangiqsualujjuaq, but particularly young people, this project will provide innovative learning and work opportunities by using newly acquired communications technology such as high-speed Internet and the Internet Satellite Pilot Project for Education. Results and learning will be shared. Funding: $36,600 Accessibility 2001 Project No.: QC-0098-2001-F RCM of Abitibi The purpose of Accessibility 2001 is to identify, with all stakeholders concerned, the best solutions for improving the mobility of individuals, thereby enhancing access to services in the RCM of Abitibi. The project aims to improve existing resources and to test new tools, including an electronic dispatcher to reduce the operating costs generally associated with paratransit projects. The results and learning will be shared. Funding: $32,500 Taking care of oneself while taking care of others Project No.: QC-0249-2001-F RCM of Bellechasse The project focusses on family caregivers in the RCM of Bellechasse and aims to experiment on ways of improving their quality of life and well-being. The tools to be developed include a burnout prevention guide (written manual and audiovisual document) that may be useful to other rural communities. The guide will be made available. Funding: $25,000 Cultivation of the Canadian Yew Tree Project No.: QC-0254-2001-F Baie St-Paul and region The goal of the project is to stem rural decline by improving income sources for forest producers in the Charlevoix region. It aims to do this by establishing a profitable methodology for the cultivation of the Canadian Yew tree which is used in the production of taxanes, pharmaceutical compounds of high commercial value. The results of the study will be released. Funding: $20,000 La Corvée Project No.: QC-0265-2001-F Saint-Camille, Eastern Township The project developed by the Saint-Camille Care and Services Solidarity Cooperative aims to experiment on a co-operative user participation formula in extended health care and services to promote autonomy, updating and social integration of senior citizens and in so doing to promote a reduction in health costs through prevention, promotion and social development. Funding: $50,000 Nunavik Harvest 2002 "Northern Delights" Inuit Herbal Teas Project Number: QC-0275-2001-E Nunavik, Northern Quebec In order to create a viable commercial environment that will both stimulate job creation and provide a new approach of securing economic benefit from the flora of the region , the Avataq Cultural Institute has developed five herbal teas that are based on research of Inuit tradition and culture. The current objective is to increase the harvest to meet anticipated demand, and to provide the necessary assistance to enable the harvesting activities in the community to become self-sufficient by expanding the harvest to five additional Inuit communities of the Nunavik region. Profits generated through this commercial initiative would be channelled to the Avataq Cultutal Institute core mandate activities, which are to promote Inuit language and culture in Nunavik. Results and learning will be shared. Funding: $15,000 Ontario
Project number: ON-0071-2001-E This project will design, develop and test a model for delivering online counselling for women who are in abusive situations and provide a template for shelters across Canada to support the introduction of online counselling services in their communities. Funding: $50,000 Making Change - Women and Community Development Project Project number: ON-0076-2001-E This project will develop a Web site and brochure aimed at women, to address issues such as community, economic and business development, while demonstrating through actual advocacy exercises and workshops, the practical application of economic and community decision-making strategies. Funding: $25,000 Healthy Living for Persons with Disabilities Project number: ON-0085-2001-E This project will identify the issues and needs relating to healthy living for people with disabilities, and address the gaps that exist in rural communities by preparing strategies to improve opportunities for education, employment, community inclusion and quality of life for these people. Funding: $10,000 Rural Virtual School Project number: ON-0093-2001-E This project will provide students and adult learners in the Frontenac, Lennox and Addington counties with the opportunity to acquire secondary school credits online. Funding: $50,000 Building Community Capacity in Rural Essex County Project number: ON-0165-2001-E This project will work with two recently restructured municipalities to establish a process that would bring together various community representatives and citizens to identify strengths and work on solutions that make sense to each community, thereby developing a model which will be shared with the other municipalities of Essex County. Funding: $32,500 Peer Group Behaviour Awareness Funding Proposal Project number: ON-0298-2001-E Through this project, the Dryden and District AIDS Committee will work with teenagers to support them in promoting awareness of risk behaviour patterns amongst students in grades 7 and 8. Funding: $4,600 Rural Eastern Ontario Development Project number: ON-0092-2001-E The Rural Eastern Ontario Development project will work with rural businesses to identify opportunities to attract visitors to rural areas. A signage program will be created to better identify resources for businesses and to facilitate access to the local and national trail networks. Funding: $30,000
Manitoba
A Certified Literate Community in Manitoba Pilot Project Project # MB-0263-2001-E The rural community of Beausejour, Manitoba is undertaking a literacy project that will enable it to market itself as a viable option for industry development and for a better quality of life. It will also be developing a Certified Literate Community model for other communities to follow. A better economic and social infrastructure will be achieved by increasing public awareness of the problem of low literacy and its impacts; encouraging the use of plain language by organizations; and strengthening community capacity building. Funding: $43,575 Strengthening the learning of skills and leadership through education in rural communities Project No.: MB-0286-2001-F Pluri-elles, the only Francophone organization in Manitoba meeting the needs of the province’s rural and urban communities in French-language literacy, proposes to create and develop learning tools to strengthen language skills and leadership in rural Francophone communities in Manitoba. Funding: $45,800 Land Use Study Project Number: MB-0111-2001-E The intention of this project is to document ecological knowledge and indigenous land values into an information base that can be used by members of the First Nations to develop educational curriculum and foster job stability. The project will focus on Ojibwe Non-Timber Forest Products that are customarily used by members of the First Nations. Funding: $50,000 Vision Seekers Wood Bison Training Program Project Number: MB-0113-2001-E The focus of this project is to train youth from the Skownan First Nation in wood bison husbandry, marketing and management skills that will maximize the wood bison economic opportunity within the community and foster personal management, teamwork and employment skills. Funding: $35,600
Saskatchewan
Bridgeford GIS Project Project number: SK-0116-2001-E This project will develop expertise in managing Geographical Information System (GIS) databases. GIS databases are a community planning tool that can increase the capacity of rural residents to diversify economic activity in their region. Funding: $50,000 questnetwork.com Project number: SK-0189-2001-E Questnetwork.com is an online, community-owned business network that will connect southwestern Saskatchewan entrepreneurs, product and service providers, government agencies and educational institutions. It will enable them to share information and resources to become more involved in the knowledge-based economy. It will also provide the region’s residents with services such as community and business profiles, e-commerce and business chat lines. Funding: $28,800 Northwest Industrial Training Program Project number: SK-0274-2001-E This project will test an alternative delivery method of post-secondary education in the trades though apprenticeship for the residents of Northern Saskatchewan, with the goal of increasing the numbers of tradespeople in Northwest Saskatchewan, particularly to develop the forestry sector of the northern economy; and, to strengthen existing and develop new partnerships between local industry and Aboriginal, Provincial, Federal and Municipal government. Funding: $39,261 Joining Hands - for Entrepreneurship, Education and Mentorship Project number: SK-0277-2001-E This project will establish a remote business education program for persons with disabilities who wish to start their own businesses. The program will focus on the development of mentorship skills so that students may share their knowledge with each other. Funding: $50,000 Country Vacation Community Marketing Project Project number: SK-0278-2001-E This project will develop marketing tools to be used by tourism operators to promote vacations in rural communities. Funding: $36,667
Alberta
Career and Technology Studies Project number: AB-0121-2001-E An enhanced Technologies Studies program will provide new learning opportunities for youth and adult learners. Funding: $10,000 Crowsnest Heritage Initiative Project number: AB-0122-2001-E This project will expand cultural heritage tourism in the Crowsnest Pass by enhancing current historic resource initiatives, such as the Western history tie-in to the Cowboy trail tourism initiative and Rum Running/Prohibition era history and exhibits. Funding: $50,000 Highway 21 Initiative Project number: AB-0124-2001-E This project will provide funding to help explore methods for increasing economic growth along the Highway 21 corridor. This corridor includes the Village of Alix, Delburne, Elnora and Linden, the Town of Three Hills and the County of Camrose. Funding: $15,000 Lakes Initiative Project number: AB-0127-2001-E This project will develop and implement a long-term economic development plan for the communities represented by the Lakes Initiative. Funding: $7,500 Sustainable Forestry Project number: AB-0131-2001-E This reforestation project will develop a training program to give participants the capability to pursue jobs in the forest industry. Funding: $20,000 Northern Alberta Métis Project Project number: AB-0252-2001-E This project will help northern Alberta Métis communities manage their natural resources by delivering relevant research, information, and technology to these communities. Funding: $50,000 Venture Facilitation Initiative Project number: AB-0270-2001-E This project will provide information to potential clients in the Town of Sundre for developing or expanding a business, and will establish a mechanism for reviewing their plans, directing them to experts, and helping them build coalitions and partnerships. Funding: $7,300 Animation en milieu rural Project number: AB-0184-2001-E This project aims to break down the isolation in rural communities through access to occupational training in French for youth and adult learners, particularly via new technologies. Funding: $21,021 Consort and Area Business/Resource Directory and Database Project number: AB-0284-2001-E A Business/Resource Directory and Database will be developed to provide detailed information for Consort and area residents and businesses on the resources available from various local businesses, institutions, associations and individuals. Funding: $4,700
British Columbia
Project Number: BC-0010-2001-E This project was developed to create value-added work for professional shoreworkers during non-peak seasons. It will also engage small boat fishermen to fish dogfish, providing off-season income to north coast small boat fishermen. Funding: $10,000 Fraser-Fort George District: Compilation of Heritage and Cultural Information Project Number: BC-0148-2001-E This project will make accessible on-line the collections of historical manuscripts, photographs, cartographic materials and other collections relating to the human and natural history of Prince George, the Regional District of Fraser-Fort George, and the north central region of B.C. Funding: $20,000 Curriculum for Intro to Horticulture Project Number: BC 0157-2001-E The Introduction to Horticulture curriculum will be based on the Saanich Indian Band’s current training requirements to launch, operate, and maintain a new greenhouse and surrounding agriculture land base. It will include training projects specific to greenhouse culture, landscape development and maintenance, organic/indigenous plant management and selection, and traditional use of plants/herbs for cooking and medicinal use. Funding: $5,000 Suicide Prevention - A Community Response for Youth and Families Project Number: BC-0162-2001-E This is a comprehensive community-wide suicide prevention and intervention strategy that can later be shared with other communities. The strategy will include a community action response, the development of education tools, training, the development of a media strategy, guidelines for service providers and facilitation of support groups. Funding: $10,900 Artesia Paedeia Project - Internet Development Project Number: BC-0192-2001-E This project will create an interactive web site that will link Sunshine Coast educators and artisans with each other. It will also link other Canadians wishing to develop entrepreneurial and creativity-based skills across a number of disciplines. Funding: $14,000 Youth Capacity Development Pilot Project Project Number: BC-0234-2001-E The Youth Capacity Development Pilot Project is designed to help address the skills shortage in organizations within the Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District on the North Coast of British Columbia. It will serve as a model for the recruitment and placement of recent university and college graduates as interns within the community. Unemployed university and college graduates will be recruited and placed as Youth Interns in business and community organizations for a one-year pilot project. These placements will be based on identified expertise needs. Funding: $50,000 Funding and Advancing Health Promotion in Rural British Columbia Project Number: BC-0110-2001-E This project will work with community groups and agencies in different parts of British Columbia to develop a framework and implementation strategy for funding community-inspired health promotion initiatives. Funding: $25,000 See You At The Summit Project number: BC-0164-2001-E A Web site will be created to provide the youth of the Columbia Valley with accurate, up-to-date information on a variety of topics relating to the health and wellness of youth such as eating disorders, drug and alcohol concerns, sexuality, and relationships with friends and family. Funding: $16,000 Moricetown Community Kitchen Project number: BC-0190-2001-E A centralized community kitchen will provide fresh and nutritious food, as well as education and support to residents for whom access to fresh and nutritious food has not been possible due to a lack of transportation, limited income, and poor knowledge of nutritional needs. Funding: $25,000 E-Business (E-Biz) Strategies for the City of Williams Lake Project number: BC-0222-2001-E This project will provide "E-Biz" education, training and Web page design to help regional businesses take advantage of the Internet as a business tool. Funding: $11,500
Northwest Territories
Arts School / Multi-Use Centre Project number: NT-0170-2001-E This project aims to develop the South Slave Region of the Northwest Territories as the art capital of the N.W.T. The planned Aurora Arts School would be centred in the Town of Fort Smith and will initially draw students from the Western Arctic and Alberta, and ultimately from around the world. This school, with plans to include a Multi-Use Centre, will serve the needs of producers throughout the South Slave Region and will be the only institution of its kind in the NWT. Funding: $50,000 Paulatuk Child and Youth Drop-in Program Project number: NT-0201-2001-E The Paulatuk Coalition is proposing a drop-in program for children and youth ages 6-15 living in the community. This proposed program will include recreational activities, personal safety training, therapeutic self-esteem building activities, communication skills training, non-violent conflict resolution strategies, community development opportunities and cultural teachings. Funding: $32,140 Youth Worker Trainee Proposal Project number: NT-0200-2001-E This program will create a supportive environment for community youth to work together and set common goals. It is hoped the empowerment of these youth will aid in the community’s overall goal of reducing youth criminal behaviour, substance abuse, violence, and other behaviours that place these young people at risk. Funding: $15,530 Deninoo Community Council Recreation Project Project number: NT-0197-2001-E This project provides funding for a program coordinator to organize and implement youth activities in Fort Resolution, helping to deliver quality programs in the community. There will be a variety of year-round activities held at various recreational facilities in the community, including cultural and traditional events. Funding: $12,000 The Inuvik Community Garden Project Project number: NT-0202-2001-E The Community Gardening Society of Inuvik has converted a decommissioned arena into a community greenhouse that will extend the growing season of numerous plants and vegetables, ensure a successful harvest and allow the production of a greater variety of fresh produce. Greenhouse officials also plan to study the effect of longer summer hours on crops. The greenhouse will be the most northerly greenhouse in Canada and will serve as an effective model for other northern communities. Funding: $20,000 Developing Our Capacity for Business: Regional Economic Capacity Building for the Métis of the South Slave Project number: NT-0195-2001-E This project will provide funding for the South Slave Métis Economic Corporation to hire a development officer for a one-year term, to carry out the Corporation’s transition to a sustainable regional Aboriginal economic development organization. This will help to provide economic and employment benefits primarily to Métis in and around the South Slave region. Funding: $15,000 Hay River Dene Reserve - Structures, Land and Environmental Inventory Project number: NT-0199-2001-E The Structures, Land and Environmental Inventory pilot project will provide a comprehensive data base for all structures and designated land dispositions on the Hay River Dene Reserve. This database will include information on occupants, legal status, condition of structures, environmental concerns, forest fire hazards, and other relevant information. The database will also provide recommendations for cleanup, forest fuel hazard reduction and building maintenance requirements. Funding: $15,000 Yukon Yukon Reading Readiness Project Project number: YT-0132-2001-E This project will address literacy "gaps" in young students to ensure that all Yukon children begin school with the skills they need to learn to read. This will be accomplished through the creation of a "Reading Readiness Team", a "Reading Contract" and "Made in the Yukon - Reading Readiness Kits". Training will also be available for teachers. Funding: $20,898 Identification de l’état de santé de la communauté franco-yukonnaise Project number: YT-0135-2001-F The purpose of this project is to conduct comprehensive research to assess the health status of the Franco-Yukon community and identify avenues of action. This is essential to providing a foundation for strategic actions and determining the criteria for success. Funding: $19,490 Rural Yukon First Nation P.C. - Technician Project number: YT-0246-2001-E The essence of this project is to design, develop and deliver introductory and intermediate computer technician training to Rural Yukon and First Nations participants through a series of traveling training sessions with intermittent group training at Yukon College Community Campuses and in First Nation-designated training sites. Funding: $50,000 Yukon River Watershed - Assessment and Awareness Project Project number: YT-0141-2001-E This project will provide a comprehensive assessment of the ‘history’, issues and concerns affecting the Yukon River watershed, while increasing the awareness of First Nation governments, individuals and organizations on environmental issues in the watershed. The assessment and education components will provide First Nations peoples and communities with the tools needed in their efforts to build capacity in environmental stewardship. Funding: $35,780 Yukon Volunteer Bureau Project number: YT-0140-2001-E This project will create resources to support the operation of a Yukon-wide Volunteer Bureau. These resources will be used to implement a northern online service that will match volunteers with opportunities while creating a database for community groups who may need help in the future. Funding: $48,750 Yukon Work Information Network (YuWIN) - Phase II Rural Development Project number: YT-0257-2001-E This project will help connect rural Yukoners to the knowledge-based economy and society and help them acquire the skills to use the technology. This will be accomplished by delivering workshops on using the YuWIN website to access information on the web, at Community Access Program (CAP) computer lab sites in various communities. Funding: $12,500
Nunavut
Camp Cook Training Course Project number: NU-0204-2001-E This project will fund a three-week certificate course that will prepare 15 students from local communities to become qualified Diamond Driller Assistants, in response to ongoing demand from mining comanies in the region. This will allow the students to receive training in all aspects of diamond drilling including: safety; drilling; camp life; and communication. The student’s practical skills and abilities will be assessed and presented in a final report to the Hamlet of Taloyoak, Kitikmeot Employment and Training Partners, and to funding agencies. Funding: $32,000 Local Employment and Training Services Project number: NU-0205-2001-E This project will provide funding for an Employment Officer in Kugluktuk, to help maximize job opportunities for community residents and assist workers in meeting their work schedules and maintain their jobs. Funding: $11,000 Marble Island Eco-Tourism Implementation Plan Project number: NU-0210-2001-E Marble Island, located 40 km from Ranklin Inlet, is an important, culturally significant site with broad eco-tourism potential. Project funding will help implement a program designed to promote exposure of this site to travellers in the region and help stimulate the local economy. Funding: $30,000
National
Walking the Prevention Circle Project number: NA-0105-2001-E This project will promote abuse prevention education in Canada's rural and remote aboriginal communities. This will be accomplished by giving the "Walking the Prevention Circle" program a truly national scope in response to the many requests received from rural aboriginal communities. The program will involve the production of a resource guide, a video, the training of 14 Aboriginal Prevention Educators and workshops in eight rural Aboriginal communities where the trained educators will be mentored. Amount funded: $50,000
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