The new horizons for seniors program is a grants and contributions program that really works to enhance the quality of life for seniors and their engagement and participation in the community, with a real focus on reducing social isolation. There are two parts to that program. There's the community-based grant aspect of it, which is the majority of the funding in the program, at about $35 million annually. That is for small, community-based grants of up to $25,000. Those can be used by community organizations to initiate projects that engage seniors in their community.
About $9 million of the program is what we call pan-Canadian funding. We've been using that to do collective impact projects in communities. That's been quite an innovation. We've had that in place since late 2015. Those projects bring together not-for-profit organizations working with seniors to develop common objectives that they want to achieve. For example, in Edmonton we have a project with seven or eight not-for-profit organizations working with seniors. Their focus is really on reaching out to “multi-barriered” or isolated seniors, in particular those who may not speak English or who are recent immigrants. Some of those projects might focus on providing additional language skills or transportation for seniors going to appointments or to community activities.
A number of initiatives within the program are focused on that, and those initiatives all come from the community.