Program directory · Department of Indigenous Services
Mental Wellness and Health Promotion
- Department
- Department of Indigenous Services
- Program code
- BYP20 (INDSC)
- Core responsibility
- Indigenous Well-Being and Self-Determination
- In Departmental Plans
- 2026-27 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Mental Wellness and Health Promotion (MWHP) Branch provides First Nations and Inuit communities with support and flexibility to implement integrated and holistic mental wellness and health promotion programs and services. Aligning these program elements and leveraging existing synergies helps support health service transfer Key activities supported by the Branch span across three elements: mental wellness, healthy living, and healthy child development. These are primarily delivered by First Nations on-reserve and Inuit in Inuit Nunangat with funding and support from the Department. Mental wellness funding supports a wide range of mental wellness services. Often these services can be grouped into three main streams: trauma-informed health and cultural supports, substance use services, and suicide prevention and life promotion supports.
Healthy living funding supports culturally relevant programming and services that include promoting healthy behaviors and creating supportive environments in the areas of healthy eating, food security, physical activity, tobacco, and chronic disease prevention, screening and management. Healthy child development supports Indigenous delivery of early childhood development programming and services promoting maternal, infant, child, and family health.
Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.
History and lineage
First appears in the Departmental Plans in 2026-27. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mental Wellness and Health Promotion | This program | 2026-27 – 2028-29 | — |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
No significant changes detected.
Success criteria
The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.
Historical: targets against results
No results reported yet.
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 100,000 | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
Show the numbers
| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | $1.07B | — |
| 2027-28 | $1.02B* | — |
| 2028-29 | $1.05B* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | 218 | — |
| 2027-28 | 218* | — |
| 2028-29 | 200* | — |
Planned spending, plan by plan
Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans
| Plan | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 plan | $1,066,528,249 | $1,020,914,292 | $1,051,102,072 |
| Actual |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
