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Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program (SUAP) provides approximately $50 million annually in grants and contributions funding annually to other levels of government, community-led and not-for-profit organizations to respond to drug and substance use issues in Canada.
The SUAP provides funding for a wide range of evidence-informed and innovative problematic substance use prevention, harm reduction and treatment initiatives across Canada at the community, regional and national levels. Initiatives target a range of psychoactive substances, including opioids, stimulants, cannabis, alcohol, nicotine and tobacco.
Submissions must target one or more of the following priority areas:
- Stream 1 – Harm reduction, Community-led and Front-line Initiatives
– Funding range from $100,000-$300,000 per year. - Stream 2 – Increasing Access to Pharmaceutical-Grade Medications
– Funding range from $500,000-$1,500,000 per year. - Stream 3 – New Approaches to Address Problematic Methamphetamine Use
– Funding range from $100,000-$150,000 per year.
Eligible Applicants
The following types of organizations are eligible for funding:
- Canadian not-for-profit health organizations including hospitals, regional health councils and community health organizations;
- Canadian not-for-profit organizations and registered not-for-profit charitable organizations;
- Canadian institutions including universities, boards of education and other centres of education in Canada;
other levels of government including Indigenous, provinces, territories and municipalities, and their agencies; and - First Nations, Métis and Inuit not-for-profit organizations.
Eligible Expenses
- Personnel salaries and benefits; goods and services of contractual personnel
- Travel and accommodation (consistent with the National Joint Council’s Travel Directive)
- Materials and supplies
- Audit, evaluation, and performance measurement
- Communication and dissemination
- Rent, utilities, and equipment
- Meeting expenses
- Grants related to further distribution of funding and awards/honoraria
- Human resources
- Governance
- Information technology and knowledge management
- Training costs and learning opportunities
- Other specific expenses not included in the categories above as identified by the Deputy Head of Health Canada to achieve funding results
