Emergency Treatment Fund 2025: Applicant guide - Canada.ca
Emergency Treatment Fund 2025: Applicant guide
Who should apply
The Emergency Treatment Fund can fund projects up to $2,000,000 per fiscal year per organization. Funding must address urgent and immediate needs, as defined by the communities, to support local capacity and provide access to culturally-relevant, trauma-informed and evidence-based programs and services.
For this funding opportunity, projects can be up to 12 months in length, starting no earlier than April 1, 2026 and ending no later than March 31, 2027, to achieve rapid responses to the overdose crisis.
The following types of organizations may apply:
- Canadian municipalities and their agencies outside of Quebec and AlbertaFootnote1 (representative of the political or administrative division defined as a municipality by the laws in its respective province and territory (PT))
- Indigenous entities, including:
- First Nations
- Inuit communities
- Métis governing bodies
- Modern Treaty Holders and Self-Governing Nations
- National and regional Indigenous organizations that are legally registered or incorporated not-for-profits
- Not-for-profit Indigenous associations, organizations, and health authorities
Current and past ETF recipients can apply to this 2025 Call for Proposals. Note, however, that priority may be given to those that have not been previously selected to receive funding through ETF.
Proposals from current or past ETF funding recipients must outline new projects with a distinct scope of work. While some overlap in activities may occur, the overall project must not duplicate or extend any project previously or currently funded under ETF.
The deadline to apply is 2:00 p.m (ET) November 4, 2025.
You must complete and submit your application online via the Funding Application System. Start this process early so that you have plenty of time to review and submit your application.