Backing Community-Led Drug Crisis Response in Atlantic
July 21, 2025 | Fredericton, New Brunswick | Health Canada
Today, the Honourable Marjorie Michel, Minister of Health, announced $2.8 million in funding from the Emergency Treatment Fund (ETF) to support four projects in Atlantic.
These investments will directly support communities in Fredericton and Miramichi, New Brunswick, in Amherst, Nova Scotia, and in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
The ETF is part of the Government of Canada’s efforts to help communities rapidly respond to emerging, critical needs related to the overdose crisis faced by municipalities and First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities. It provides support for a wide range of urgent interventions to bolster local capacity to help the most affected populations.
Minister Michel highlighted a mobile outreach project led by the City of Fredericton and the John Howard Society. This project will expand outreach efforts in Fredericton, New Brunswick, by adding overnight services to support vulnerable populations by delivering supplies, providing transport to critical services, distributing naloxone, and offering overdose support and weather warnings year-round.
https://www.canada.ca/en/health-canada/news/2025/07/supporting-community-led-responses-to-the-illegal-toxic-drug-and-overdose-crisis-in-atlantic-canada.html