Feds top up funding for Dauphin outreach van project
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The Manitoba Métis Federation local for the Northwest Region has received more federal funding to launch a mobile outreach van to provide harm reduction services.
The Northwest Métis Council Inc. received $86,500 in additional funds to address a drug and overdose crisis in the Dauphin area, Health Canada announced on Tuesday.
The new funding brings the total amount allocated for the project to $655,788, with the bulk of the money announced in October 2025.
The mobile outreach van will offer culturally relevant harm reduction education, naloxone, case management support and help people access long-term treatment and community services.
The Northwest Métis Council Inc. is one of 23 projects across Western Canada and the North to receive a portion of more than $13 million, Rebecca Alty, the federal minister of Crown-Indigenous relations, said at a news conference in Yukon on Tuesday.
“With this investment, our government is putting resources directly into the hands of First Nations, Inuit and Métis communities,” Alty said.
“There’s no one size fits all solution to the crisis … and none of us can solve it alone.”
The Brandon Sun reached out to the Northwest Métis Council Inc. on Wednesday, but didn’t hear back before press time.
The funds are provided through the Emergency Treatment Fund and Substance Use and Addictions Program, offering a wide range of urgent interventions to community-based projects that focus on overdose prevention, treatment, recovery and harm reduction services.
Indigenous communities are disproportionally affected by the drug and overdose crisis, Brendan Hanley, the member of Parliament for Yukon, said during Tuesday’s news conference.
“I have seen and felt first-hand the impact of the toxic drug and overdose crisis and how that’s affecting families and communities in the Yukon, in the North, across the country, and no region has been left untouched,” Hanley said.
The City of Brandon was also granted $425,530 in October to establish a mobile outreach van, aimed at providing harm reduction supplies and helping people experiencing homelessness.
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