A Place to Belong (APTB) programs provides children and youth aged 5 to 18 with a positive after school experience that promotes their personal, social, and emotional development. These programs provide an adult-supervised environment where they can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, build positive relationships, and develop confidence and skills for life.

A Place to Belong (APTB) programs provides children and youth aged 5 to 18 with a positive after school experience that promotes their personal, social, and emotional development. These programs provide an adult-supervised environment where they can experience new opportunities, overcome barriers, build positive relationships, and develop confidence and skills for life.

List of Age-Friendly Grant funding recipients from across Nova Scotia by year.

Provincial volunteer awards presented to approximately 70 Nova Scotians annually; recipients are selected by their communities, or through a nomination process.

Big Brothers Big Sisters provides children and youth with high quality, professionally supported volunteer mentoring programs. This includes the pairing of children and youth to adult role models who serve as a mentor and a friend to talk to and share the experiences of growing up with. Big Brothers Big Sisters also provides children and youth with opportunities to participate in group programs, both in school and outside of school.

Big Brothers Big Sisters provides children and youth with high quality, professionally supported volunteer mentoring programs. This includes the pairing of children and youth to adult role models who serve as a mentor and a friend to talk to and share the experiences of growing up with. Big Brothers Big Sisters also provides children and youth with opportunities to participate in group programs, both in school and outside of school.

Boys and Girls Clubs of Nova Scotia provide quality after school and out-of-school programs to children and youth that support their healthy physical, educational and social development.

Boys and Girls Clubs of Nova Scotia provide quality after school and out-of-school programs to children and youth that support their healthy physical, educational and social development.

Number of Disability Support Program participants currently in community-based living. Community-based living includes those whose primary placement is in Alternative Family Support, Developmental Residences, Flex Independent, Flex In Home, Group Homes, Independent Living Support, Supervised Apartment and Small Options Homes, etc.

Number of Disability Support Program participants currently in community-based living. Community-based living includes those whose primary placement is in Alternative Family Support, Developmental Residences, Flex Independent, Flex In Home, Group Homes, Independent Living Support, Supervised Apartment and Small Options Homes, etc.