CNAF Financially Supports

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CNAF Financially Supports

The Canadian National Autism Foundation is dedicated to providing funding for Canadian based Autism research, as well as to organizations that better the lives of individuals with autism.

Are you running a research study, or do you support individuals with autism?

Download a grant application, and we will review your request.

Requests must be received by December 31, to be considered for disbursements made in February/ March each year.

Grant Application

Disbursements to Date..

2013

~ $50,000.00 Hawkins Institute a unique web-based e-learning social

skills program for people on the spectrum 16 yrs. old and up that will not

only serve as a learning tool, but will draw upon many talents of people

with autism by employing them throughout the production.

~$3,000.00 Autism Connections Fredericton

www.autismconnectionfredericton.org For 20 parents of

youth/teens/young adults with Aspergers`s, PDD-NOS, and autism in

financial hardship to attend a 2 day Transitioning workshop in

Fredericton,N.B. Pamela Crooke of Michelle Garcia Winner`s Social Thinking

group brought in from the USA to deliver the workshop

~ $3,000.00 Autism Resource Centre Inc -

Grand Opening of a new Adult Centre which educates the public and

professional, raising awareness,advancing the understanding that adults with

ASD require appropriate programs, services and supports to realize their full

potential and informing the public, families and professionals and adults with ASD and families of the programs and services offered at the centre

2012

~$650.00 2012 International Naturally Autistic PeopleAwards Convention and Festival -ANCA Consulting Inc.

~$1,000.00Sackville Bedford Early Intervention Program

~$2,100.00New Boundaries -

2011 ~ $2,500.00 New Boundaries (Windsor Nova Scotia)

www.newboundaries.org

To create a Snoezelen Room at New Boundaries

~$2,500.00 Sackville Bedford Early Intervention Program

(Middle Sackville, Nova Scotia)

www.sbeip.com

To expand and enhance their resource library as

well as their sensory toy and equipment lending

library

~$500.00 Dave Andreychuk Foundation Canada-

The Dave Andreychuk Foundation has three GOALS:

1. Assist children in need
2. Support causes for children and families enduring

chronic and/or life threatening illness

3. Encourage the investment of youth and amateur

sports

2010 ~ $1,500.00 Sackville Bedford Early Intervention Program-

(Nova Scotia) - designed to service kids from birth to school age with a lending library school- readiness programs and home visits

~ $5,000.00 SickKids Foundation –(Toronto)

Dr. Scherer - Genomic micro array screening Massively-

parallel next generation sequencing (NGS) of ASD susceptibility genes, and optical translation of genomic

technology and information for ASD

~$6,500.00 York University -(Toronto)

Jonathan A Weiss, PhD, CPsych - An Evaluation of Group

Cognitive Behaviour Therapy for Youth with Autism

Spectrum Disorders and Anxiety- expand and evaluate

our group Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) treatment

for mood and anxiety in youth with ASD

~$1,000.00 Studio-Sans Limites –Montreal- Autistic adults should have access to it as much as anyone else. Aside from the benefits rendered by the work formation programs to the

autistic adults it will open doors to new research

opportunities.

~$500.00 Lion's Foundation of Canada Dog Guides -

Lions Foundation of Canada mission is to assist

Canadians with a medical or physical disability by

providing them Dog Guides at no cost. To do this,

the Foundation operates Dog Guides Canada, a

preeminent national training school and charity that

assists individuals with disabilities through five

specialized Dog Guide programs. These Dog Guides are

provided at no cost to eligible Canadians from coast to

coast. The Foundation relies on donations from

individuals, service clubs, foundations and corporations

and does not receive any government funding.

2009 ~ $7000.00 Montreal Children's Hospital ~ Simons Simplex

Collection Study ~ Thirteen research sites across North

America will collect DNA samples from families with one

child with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

~ $4000.00 The Children with Complex Needs Program (CCNP)

Residence (Hamilton, ON) ~ will serve youth 12-18

years of age with dual diagnosis, to proide a therapeudic milieu for consistent respite and including the stabilization periods milieu for consistent respite

and including the use of a Snoezelen Room.

~ $4000.00 Music Enhancement Program (MEP) through Blue

Balloon ~ services for children of all abilities. The MEP

program gives clients a chance to experience music

therapy in conjunction with current therapy services.

2008 ~ $7000.00 Hospital for Sick Children reasearch study "Roles and Experiences of Mothers and Fathers of Children with Autism" ~ led Dr. David Nicholas

~ $5000.00 Hospital for Sick Children ~ Autism Genome Project ~ lead by Dr. Stephen Scherer

~ $5000.00 McMaster University ~ Dr. Melissa Rutherford, PhD. ~ for

continuation of the study Early Detection of Autism

~ $3000.00 The Autism Treatment Network at the Hospital for Sick

Children ~ led by Dr. Wendy Roberts ~ it will be the first

ATN site in Canada.

2007 ~ $15 000.00 continuation of the study: Early Detection of Autism: a

Longitudinal Study to Assess the Development of Children in their First Year who may be at risk for Autism

~ McMaster University ~ Dr. Melissa Rutherford, PhD.

~ $12 000.00 Autism Genome Project ~ Canadian Autism

Intervention Research Network (CAIRN) ~ Offord

Centre for Child Studies