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The Government of Ontario has strategies and programs that support the wellbeing of youth across all seven Stepping Up themes. For your reference, these initiatives have been compiled into one list.
This inventory focuses on strategies and programs that serve youth specifically or have components that serve youth. Many programs and services support more than one strategy. However, in most cases they have been listed only once. Please follow the links provided to learn more about the initiatives listed and all of the associated programs and services available.

Health & wellness

Healthy Kids Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Please note: "new!" = a new strategy or initiative since the release of the Inventory of Youth Programs 2015.
Related:

Immunization 2020

Lead: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Related:

Ontario First Nations Health Action Plan

Lead: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care, Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Life Promotion and Crisis Coordination Supports, including:
    • Tele-Mental Health Service and expansion to enhance outreach and support (MCYS)
    • Holistic response/prevention teams to stabilize communities in crisis and provide training on suicide prevention and life promotion (MCYS)
    • Indigenous mental health and addictions workers to support students in First Nations schools (MCYS)

Related:

Linked strategies

Open Minds, Healthy Minds— Ontario’s Comprehensive Mental Health and Addictions Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

A Shared Responsibility: Ontario’s Policy Framework for Child and Youth Mental Health

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

Moving on Mental Health: A System That Makes Sense for Children and Youth

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Mental Health Services and Supports, including:
  • Mental health systems, including:
  • Mental health resources, including:
    • Community-based child and youth mental health program guidelines and requirements (MCYS)
    • Together to Live: Youth Suicide Prevention Plan (MCYS), including:
    • Together to Live online toolkit (MCYS)
    • Supporting Minds: An Educator’s Guide to Promoting Students’ Mental Health and Well-Being (draft 2013) (EDU)
    • Quick Facts For Parents: Learning about Mental Health (EDU)
    • Centre for Innovation in Campus Mental Health (MAESD)
    • Mental Health Innovation Fund (MAESD)

Related:

  • Rise Asset Development self-employment and entrepreneurship support for youth with a history of mental health challenges
  • Centre for Addiction and Mental Health supports, including:
    • Mental health support crisis service centre in Toronto for LGBTQ2S youth
    • Mandatory training program for shelters working with street-involved youth
    • Evaluation plan for youth care
  • Helplines: Kids Help Phone, Good2Talk, Mental Health Helpline, Distress and Crisis Ontario centres
  • Resources: Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario and its Project ECHO Ontario, Children’s Mental Health Ontario, mindyourmind and Canadian Mental Health Association

Smoke-Free Ontario

Lead: Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care

Related:

  • Making Healthier Choices Act, 2015

Strong, supportive friends & families

Poverty Reduction Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Community and Social Services (selected youth-related initiatives)

  • First Nations Student Nutrition Program (MCYS)
  • Healthy Smiles Ontario program (MOHLTC)
  • Learning, Earning and Parenting (MCSS)
  • Local Poverty Reduction Fund (MCSS)
  • Minimum wage rate increase and annual rate changes tied to change in Ontario’s Consumer Price Index (MOF)
  • Ontario Child Benefit (MCYS)
  • Ontario Child Benefit Equivalent (MCYS)
  • Poverty Reduction Strategy Annual Report (MCSS)
  • Social Assistance:
    • Ontario Disability Support Program (MCSS)
    • Ontario Works (MCSS)
  • Student Nutrition Program (MCYS)

Related:

  • Community food program donation tax credit for farmers (MOF)
  • Family Responsibility Office (MCSS)

Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Housing

  • A Place to Call Home: Report of the Expert Advisory Panel on Homelessness (2015)
  • Long-Term Affordable Housing Strategy update
  • Portable housing benefit framework
  • Rent-geared-to-income—simplified calculations and an exemption of scholarships, bursaries and fellowships
  • Housing assistance—new and innovative forms, increased supply
  • Community Homelessness Prevention Initiative
  • Promoting Affordable Housing Act, 2016
  • Supportive housing policy framework (in development)

Family Justice Services

Lead: Ministry of the Attorney General

  • Family Mediation Services
  • Mandatory Information Programs
  • Family Law Information Centres
  • Family court mediation and information services—contact information
  • Supervised Access Centres
  • Feedback on Family Mediation Services, Mandatory Information Programs and Family Law Information Centres
  • Family Court Support Worker Program
  • Services provided by the Office of the Children’s Lawyer

Related:

Licensed Child and Youth Residential Services

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Licensed child and youth residential services:
  • Settings include group homes, foster homes, provincially operated facilities and youth justice open and secure custody/detention facilities
  • Because Young People Matter: Report of the Residential Services Review Panel (2016)

Child Protection Services

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

Related:

  • Bill 89, Supporting Children, Youth and Families Act (proposed Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2016)
  • Child and Family Services Act, 1990
  • Child and Family Services Review Board
  • Office of the Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth, including:
    • Provincial Advocate for Children and Youth Act, 2007 and amendments
  • Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies
  • One Vision, One Voice practice framework
  • Association of Native Child and Family Services Agencies of Ontario

Child Welfare Transformation

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Community Capacity Building Program

Permanency and Adoption

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Adoption disclosure provisions and five-year review
  • Adoption recruiters, including those hired in partnership with Wendy’s Wonderful Kids
  • Formal Customary Care and one-time financial assistance for customary caregivers
  • Licensed international adoption agencies
  • Intercountry Adoption Act, 1998
  • Stay Home for School policy and funding extension to caregivers to support youth in care to finish high school
  • Targeted subsidies for adoption and legal custody and policy revisions extending the age of eligibility
  • Post-adoption family support program

Related:

Youth Leaving Care Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Aftercare Benefits Initiative and extension for adopted Crown wards
  • Continued Care and Support for Youth
  • Joint protocol for student achievement (MCYS, EDU)
  • Living and Learning Grant and expanded eligibility to include adopted Crown wards
  • Guide to Effective Practice in Mentoring (2016) for children’s aid societies and Indigenous child well-being societies
  • Renewed Youth Supports program allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to return to care until age 21
  • Youth-in-Transition worker program
  • Registered Education Savings Plans for eligible children and youth in care
  • Crown Ward Educational Championship Teams (MAESD)

Education, training & apprenticeships

Achieving Excellence: A Renewed Vision for Education in Ontario

Lead: Ministry of Education
Achieving Excellence: A Renewed Vision for Education in Ontario has four interconnected goals:

  • Achieving excellence
  • Ensuring equity
  • Promoting well-being
  • Enhancing public confidence

Goal: Achieving Excellence
Lead: Ministry of Education

Supporting strategies

Lead: Ministry of Education

  • Specialist High Skills Major program
  • Experiential learning, including:
    • Cooperative Education
    • Experience Ontario
    • Consultations on the Future of Experiential Learning in Ontario
    • Community-connected experiential learning projects
    • Employer Champion Awards
    • Ontario Youth Apprenticeship Program
  • Dual Credit Program, including School Within a College
  • Elementary to Secondary School Transition program
  • Student Re-engagement Initiative, including:
    • Single Parent Initiative
    • 12 & 12+
  • Student Success Teams
  • Renewed Math Strategy
  • Think Literacy Student Achievement Literacy Planning Resource: Grades 7–12
  • Learning Outside the School Day: Grades 7–12
  • Supervised Alternative Learning programs
  • Creating Pathways to Success
  • Curriculum-based teaching resources

Related:

Student Voice Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Education

Related:

Literacy and Numeracy Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Education

Related:

Renewed Math Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Education

Special Education Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Education

  • Special education programs and services
  • Legislation, regulations, policies and funding
  • Structures and systems, including:
    • The Identification, Placement, and Review Committee
    • Ontario Special Education Tribunals
    • Special Education Advisory Committee
    • Individual Education Plan

E-Learning Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Education

  • Ontario Educational Resource Bank
  • Online Classroom, including:
    • Blended learning
    • Learning Management System’s online courses
  • Seat Reservation System
  • e-Community Ontario
  • Tutoring programs for students, including:
    • Homework Help
    • TVOKids Homework Zone
    • SOS Devoirs

Goal: Ensuring Equity
Lead: Ministry of Education

Supporting Strategies

Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy
Lead: Ministry of Education

  • Equity and Inclusive Education in Ontario Schools: Guidelines for Policy Development and Implementation (2014)
  • Equity and Inclusive Education Networks
  • How Do We Know We Are Making A Difference? tool
  • Quick Facts: Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy
  • Realizing the Promise of Diversity: Ontario’s Equity and Inclusive Education Strategy (2009)
  • Supporting Bias-Free Progressive Discipline in Schools: A Resource Guide for School and System Leaders (2013)
  • ÉduSource—support for French-language learners and newcomer students to succeed in French-language schools

Related:

  • French-language elementary, secondary and postsecondary education
  • Media and online homework supports, including:
    • Télévision française de l’Ontario (TFO)
    • SOS Devoirs
  • Holodomor Mobile Classroom
  • Roots of Empathy

Indigenous Education Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Education

  • Policy and reports including:
    • Building Bridges to Success for First Nation, Métis and Inuit Students—Developing Policies for Voluntary, Confidential Indigenous Student Self-Identification: Successful Practices for Ontario School Boards (2007)
    • First Nation, Métis and Inuit Education Policy Framework (2007) and Implementation Plan (2014)
    • A Solid Foundation: Second Progress Report on the Implementation of the Ontario First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education Policy Framework, 2013 (2013)
    • Sound Foundations for the Road Ahead—Fall 2009 Progress Report on Implementation of the Ontario First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education Policy Framework (2009)
  • Curriculum and classroom supports, including:
    • Native Studies and Native Languages: elementary and secondary
    • First Nation, Métis, and Inuit Education Leads, School Support Initiative and Re-engagement Initiative
    • Voluntary and confidential Indigenous student self-identification
    • Alternative Secondary School Program in Friendship Centres
  • Tools and resources, including:
    • Indigenous Education Strategy: resources and useful links
    • November Treaties Recognition Week (MIRR)
    • First Nations and treaties maps (MIRR)

Related:

  • Indigenous institutes
  • Anishinabek Nation’s We Are All Treaty People teachers’ kit (MIRR)
  • Memorandum of Understanding between the Métis Nation of Ontario and Ontario and Memorandum of Understanding between the Nishnawbe Aski Nation, Canada and Ontario (EDU)

Goal: Promoting Well-Being
Lead: Ministry of Education

  • Well-Being in Our Schools, Strength in Our Society engagement paper (2016)
  • Knowledge Network for Applied Education Research: Knowledge Network for Student Well-Being

Supporting strategies

Healthy Schools Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Education

  • Foundations for a Healthy School, including:
    • Foundations for a Healthy School: A Companion Resource to the K–12 School Effectiveness Framework (2014)
  • Medical conditions:
    • Legislation, including:
    • Ryan’s Law (Ensuring Asthma Friendly Schools), 2015
    • Sabrina’s Law, 2005, an act to protect anaphylactic pupils
    • Prevalent medical conditions: resources and tools
  • Concussions:
    • Policy: Policy/Program Memorandum No. 158: School Board Policies on Concussion
    • Tools and resources, including:
    • Concussion information (MOHLTC)
    • Ontario Physical Education Safety Guidelines (Ophea)
  • Physical activity:
    • Policy, curriculum and funding, including:
    • Policy/Program Memorandum No. 138: Daily Physical Activity in Elementary Schools, Grades 1–8
    • Ontario Curriculum, Grades 1–8: Health and Physical Education
    • Healthy Schools: daily physical activity—tools and resources
  • Healthy eating:
    • Legislation, regulation and policy, including:
    • Healthy Food for Healthy Schools Act, 2008
    • Ontario Regulation 200/08: Trans Fat Standards
    • School Food and Beverage Policy
    • Online training for the schools food and beverage policy for school boards and elementary teachers
  • Additional Healthy Schools resources and supports

RELATED:

  • Lifesaving Society’s Swim to Survive program
  • Ophea Healthy Schools Certification, including the Hero of Play program
  • Pan-Canadian Joint Consortium for School Health
  • Fresh from the Farm: healthy fundraising for Ontario schools
  • AgScape educational programs and tools (OMAFRA)

Safe and Accepting Schools
Lead: Ministry of Education

  • Ontario Code of Conduct
  • Preventing Bullying and Harassment, including:
    • Bullying Awareness and Prevention Week
  • Promoting a Positive School Climate
  • Premier’s Awards for Accepting Schools
  • Progressive Discipline, including:
    • Suspensions and expulsions
  • Making Ontario’s Schools Safe and Accepting
  • Health and Physical Education Quick Facts for Parents, including:
    • Quick Facts for Parents: Learning about Online Safety, including Risks of Sexting
    • Quick Facts for Parents: Learning about Healthy Relationships and Consent
    • Quick Facts for Parents: Learning about Staying Safe
  • Additional publications and resources
  • Urban and Priority High Schools
  • Protecting Students Act, 2016
  • Provincial Model for a Local Police/School Board Protocol (2015)
  • Programs for suspended or expelled students
  • Education Amendment Act (Keeping Our Kids Safe at School), 2009
  • Accepting Schools Act, 2012

RELATED:

Promoting Students’ Mental Health

Lead: Ministry of Education

  • Programs and service           es supporting Open Minds, Healthy Minds—Ontario’s Comprehensive Mental Health and Addictions Strategy

Goal: Enhancing Public Confidence
LEAD: Ministry of Education SUPPORTING STRATEGIES:

  • Parent Involvement Committees and school councils
  • Parents Reaching Out Grants
  • Information about funding, including Grants for Student Needs:
    • Increased investments
    • 2016–17 Education Funding: A Guide to the Grants for Student Needs (2016)
  • EQAO assessments
  • High school graduation rates
  • Enrolment in publicly funded schools
  • National and international assessments

RELATED:

Transforming Ontario’s Postsecondary Education System

Lead: Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development

  • Ontario’s Differentiation Policy Framework for Postsecondary Education (2013), including:
    • Strengthening Ontario’s Centres of Creativity, Innovation and Knowledge (2012)
  • Strategic mandate agreements, including:
    • Next Steps in Strategic Mandate Agreement and Changes in the College and University Funding Formulas
  • Technical Documents: Ontario’s University Funding Model
  • Technical Documents: College Funding Model Review
  • Ontario’s credit transfer system, including:
    • Ontario Council on Articulation and Transfer’s website, ONTransfer.ca
    • Online learning, including Ontario Online Learning Consortium’s eCampusOntario and
  • enhancements

RELATED:

  • Highly Qualified Personnel (HQP) Scholarship Program (OMAFRA)
  • Nutrient Management: Education, Training and Certification (OMAFRA)

Ontario Student Assistance Program and Transformation Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development

  • OSAP calculator, information and application
  • OSAP for students in special circumstances

Aboriginal Postsecondary Education and Training

LEAD: Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development

  • Aboriginal Postsecondary Education and Training Policy Framework and Achieving Results through Partnership: First Progress Report, 2015
  • Indigenous institutes, including:
    • Anishinabek Education Institute
    • First Nations Technical Institute
    • Kenjgewin Teg Educational Institute
    • Iohahi:io Akwesasne Adult Education Centre
    • Chanie Wenjack Pimachehowin Educational Institute
    • Ogwehoweh Skills and Trades Training Centre
    • Seven Generations Education Institute
    • Shingwauk Kinoomaage Gamig
    • Six Nations Polytechnic
  • Postsecondary Education Fund for Indigenous Learners:
    • Student Success Fund for Colleges and Universities
    • Student Success Fund for Indigenous Institutes
    • Targeted Initiatives Fund
    • Indigenous Skills Advancement Program
    • Indigenous Student Bursary

RELATED:

  • Mohawk College’s Project Pathfinder
  • Grand River Employment and Training’s Work Ready Indigenous People (WRAP) program
  • Indigenous Governance and Public Administration Post Diploma/Degree Certificate Program offered through Confederation College

Apprenticeship training

Lead: Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development

RELATED:

Youth Justice Education and Skills Training Success Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Enhancing coordination of Education Programs in Care, Treatment, Custody and/or Correctional Facilities (Section 23 Programs) (MCYS, EDU)
  • Community Learning HUB and Trade Up Employment Program
  • Skilled Trades and Apprenticeship e-learning series
  • Provincial Education and Training Community of Practice
  • Financial Literacy and Employment Preparation Toolkits
  • Internet Access for Education and Skills Development Project
  • Educational Achievement Data Collection and Reporting through Youth Offender Tracking and Information System

RELATED:

Employment & entrepreneurship

Youth jobs strategy

Leads: Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development, Ministry of Economic Development and Growth/Research Innovation and Science

RELATED:

  • Employment Ontario, including
    • Employment Ontario live chat
  • Business Plan Wizard
  • Ontario Network of Entrepreneurs
  • Ready Set Work
  • Ontario Youth Employment Programs and Opportunities, including:
    • Indigenous Law Summer Program (MAG)
    • Indigenous Youth Work Exchange Program (MNRF)
    • Articling Student/Summer Law Student Program (MAG)
    • Debwewin Summer Law Program (MAG)
    • Engineering Development Program (MTO)
    • First Nations Natural Resources Youth Employment Program (MNRF)
    • Job opportunities for young people in natural resource management (MNRF)
    • Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry Internship Program (MNRF)
    • Stewardship Youth Ranger Program (MNRF)
    • Summer Employment Opportunities (MGCS)
    • Transportation Technician Initiative (MTO)

Highly Skilled Workforce Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Advanced Education and Skills Development

  • Premier’s panel and Building the Workforce of Tomorrow: A Shared Responsibility (2016)
  • Job trends and outlook
  • Ontario Centre for Workforce Innovation

Indigenous Economic Development Fund

Lead: Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation (selected youth-related initiatives)

  • First Nations Natural Resources Youth Employment Program
  • Regional partnership grants:
    • Mink Lake First Nations Youth Employment Program
    • Peetabeck Youth Employment Diversification Project
  • Muskegowuk Council’s educational program for First Nations students
  • Miziwe Biik Indigenous employment and training
  • Kagita Mikam Indigenous employment and training

RELATED:

Social Enterprise Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Economic Development and Growth

Growth Plan for Northern Ontario

Lead: Ministry of Northern Development and Mines

RELATED:

Strengthening Rural Communities

Lead: Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs (selected youth-related initiatives)

RELATED:

  • 4-H Ontario
  • Youth Attraction Strategy Project of Perth, St Mary’s and Stratford
  • Youth Civic Leadership Pilot, Perth4Youth
  • Rural Ontario Institute Youth Engagement Showcase
  • GrowingCareers

Safe At Work Ontario

Lead: Ministry of Labour

  • Occupational Health and Safety Act (1990)
  • Occupational Health and Safety inspection blitzes
  • It’s Your Job video contest
  • Young worker health and safety resources for youth, parents and workplaces
  • Bring Safety Home
  • Live Safe! Work Smart! eNewsletter and resources
  • WorkSmart Campus postsecondary e-learning tool

RELATED:

Employment standards

Lead: Ministry of Labour

  • Employment Standards Act, 2000 including:
    • Minimum Wage Rate Increase and annual rate changes tied to change in Ontario’s Consumer Price Index
    • Critically Ill Child Care Leave
    • Crime-Related Child Death or Disappearance Leave
    • Amendments made through the Protecting Employees’ Tips Act, 2015
  • Proactive employment standards inspections, including:
    • Temporary help agencies blitz
    • Precarious employment and temporary foreign workers blitz
    • Young workers and temporary foreign workers blitz
    • Repeat violators/zero tolerance blitz
  • Changing Workplaces Review

RELATED to both Safe at Work and Employment Standards:

  • Protecting Child Performers Act, 2015
  • Presentations at schools, community associations and youth employment agencies to increase awareness of young workers’ rights under the Employment Standards Act, 2000

Diversity, social inclusion & safety

The Journey Together: Ontario’s Commitment to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples

Lead: Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation (selected youth-related initiatives)

  • The Journey Together: Ontario’s Commitment to Reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples (2016) strategy and action plan

RELATED:

Ontario Indigenous Children and Youth Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Co-implementation ongoing, including:
    • Family Well-Being Program

Related:

Walking Together: Ontario’s Long-Term Strategy to End Violence Against Indigenous Women

LEADS: Ministries of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation, Status of Women

  • Walking Together: Ontario’s Long-Term Strategy to End Violence Against Indigenous Women strategy document (2016)
  • Programs and initiatives to prevent violence against Indigenous women, youth and girls

It’s Never Okay: An Action Plan to Stop Sexual Violence and Harassment

Lead: Ministry of the Status of Women, and Ministry of Community, Safety and Correctional Services

Strategy to End Human Trafficking

LEAD: Ministry of Community and Social Services (selected youth-related initiatives)

  • Youth-in-transition workers for at-risk youth leaving care (MCYS)
  • Expanding protocols for children’s aid societies and police services (MCYS, MCSCS)
  • Ontario curriculum that is age and grade appropriate and relevant to current societal issues, including the awareness and prevention of gender-based violence and human trafficking (EDU)

Promoting Life-Skills for Indigenous Youth (PLAY)

Lead: Ministry of Indigenous Relations and Reconciliation

  • Summer Sun Program
  • Hockey for Development Program
  • Youth Leadership Program
  • Lacrosse for Development Program

Ontario’s Culture Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport (selected youth-related initiatives)

  • Canadian authors’ content increased in schools (EDU)
  • Youth cultural camps in Indigenous communities

Related:

Ontario’s Immigration Strategy

LEAD: Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration

  • Newcomer Settlement Program, including settlement and integration services for newcomer youth:
    • Information and referral to services
    • School registration
    • Guidance and mentoring
    • Social connectivity, including cultural and recreational activities
    • Skills development
    • Referral to language training and employment support programs and services
    • Labour market connections

Related:

Strategy for a Safer Ontario

Lead: Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services

  • Strategy for a Safer Ontario: Public Discussion Paper and consultation
  • Provincial Approach to Community Safety and Well-Being:
    • Booklet 1: Crime Prevention in Ontario: A Framework for Action
    • Booklet 2: Community Safety and Well-Being in Ontario: A Snapshot of Local Voices

Related:

  • Safer and Vital Communities Grant
  • Proceeds of Crime Front-Line Policing Grant
  • Risk-driven Tracking Database
  • Police Effectiveness Modernization Grant
  • Proceeds of Crime Front-Line Policing Grant
  • Ontario Regulation 58/16: Collection of Identifying Information in Certain Circumstances— Prohibition and Duties (commonly known as “street checks” or “carding”)
  • OPP Youth Foundation
  • OPP Knowledge, Issues, Decision, and Supports (KIDS) Program
  • OPP partnership with The Push for Change
  • OPP Indigenous Policing Bureau youth initiatives, including:
    • Niigan Mosewak (“Walking Forward”) summer youth camp
    • Walking the Path program
  • Northern Community youth initiatives, including:
    • The Pikangikum Project/Project Journey
    • Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation (Big Trout Lake) and Wapekeka
    • North Caribou Lake First Nation

Youth Justice Services

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Probation Services
  • Youth Justice Custody Services
  • Youth Justice Reintegration Services and Diversion Programs
  • Restorative justice
  • Stop Now and Plan (SNAP) Youth Justice model
  • Youth Justice Committee Program (MAG)
  • Youth Justice Mental Health Programs (i.e., Intensive Support and Supervision Program, Youth Mental Health Court Worker program)
  • Indigenous Youth Justice Community Programs
  • Youth Justice Attendance Centres
  • Community Support Teams

Related:

Civic engagement & youth leadership

Modernizing elections

Lead: Ministry of Intergovernmental Affairs (selected youth-related initiatives)

Related:

  • Local Government Week (MMA)

Ontario’s Volunteer Action Plan

Lead: Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration (selected youth-related initiatives)

Ontario Honours and Awards: Volunteer Recognition

Lead: Ministry of Citizenship and Immigration (selected youth-related initiatives)

  • Ontario Volunteer Service Awards
  • June Callwood Outstanding Achievement Award for Voluntarism
  • Lieutenant Governor’s Community Volunteer Award for Students
  • Hilary M. Weston Scholarships
  • James Bartleman Indigenous Youth Creative Writing Award
  • Lincoln M. Alexander Award
  • Ontario Medal for Young Volunteers

Youth engagement

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

Related:

Coordinated & youth-friendly communities

Youth Opportunities, Ontario’s Youth Action Plan and the Enhanced Youth Action Plan

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Stepping Up: A Strategic Framework to Help Ontario’s Youth Succeed (2013)
  • Gang Prevention/Intervention program
  • Restorative Justice and Conflict Mediation
  • Stop Now and Plan (SNAP) Middle Years program
  • Youth Collective Impact (Youth CI) program
  • Youth in Policing Initiative
  • Youth Justice Family Workers
  • Youth Mentorship program
  • Youth Opportunities Fund
  • Youth Outreach Worker Program
  • Youth Research and Evaluation eXchange (YouthREX)
  • Youth Worker Training

Related:

  • The City of Toronto’s new web portal for youth, YouthTO
  • CivicAction’s Escalator: Jobs for Youth Facing Barriers
  • The Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment (MLSE) LaunchPad
  • MaRS Discovery District’s Studio [Y]: Ontario’s Social Impact and Youth Leadership Academy
  • United Way of Toronto and York Region’s Career Navigator program
  • Promising Young People, action area of the Ontario Trillium Foundation (MCI)

Collective Impact for Disconnected Youth

LEAD: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Partnership table
  • Pilot site assessments

Special Needs Support

Lead: Ministries of Children and Youth Services and Community and Social Services

  • Ontario’s Special Needs Strategy, including:
    • Early identification
    • Coordinated service planning
    • Integrated delivery of rehabilitation services
  • Complex special needs funding:
    • Individual placement funding
    • Community enhancement funding
  • Action Plan to Improve Child and Youth Residential Care
  • Financial and Respite Supports, including: (MCYS, MCSS)
    • Special Services at Home
    • Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities
    • Out-of-Home Respite
    • Enhanced Respite for Medically Fragile and/or Technology Dependent Children
  • Assistive Devices Program (MOHLTC)

RELATED:

Autism Spectrum Disorder Services and Supports

Lead: Ministry of Children and Youth Services

  • Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)–based services and supports
  • Autism Intervention Program
  • Ontario Autism Program phased-in implementation beginning June 2017
  • Camps, including Summer Camps and March Break Camps
  • Connections for Students, including school-based transition teams (MCYS, EDU)
  • Grant Assistance Program for employees of MCYS autism programs
  • Autism Parent Resource Kit
  • School Support Program (MCYS, EDU)
  • Supported Employment for Young Adults with ASD—Two-Year Demonstration Program (MCYS, MCSS)
  • Transition services and supports for adolescents

RELATED:

Disabilities services and supports

Leads: Ministries of Children and Youth Services, Community and Social Services

RELATED:

Developmental Services

Lead: Ministry of Community and Social Services (serving youth over 18 years of age)

  • Services and Supports to Promote the Social Inclusion of Persons with Developmental Disabilities Act, 2008
  • Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, 2005
  • Developmental Services Ontario—a single window to adult developmental services in Ontario
  • Help with daily living, including:
    • Passport program
    • Adult Protective Service Worker program
  • Adult residential supports, including:
    • Group homes and specialized residences
    • Host Family Program
    • Developmental Services Housing Task Force
  • Specialized and clinical supports, including:
    • Joint Policy Guideline for the Provision of Community Mental Health and Development Services for Adults with a Dual Diagnosis (MCSS, MOHLTC)
    • Community Networks of Specialized Care
  • Employment and Modernization Fund
  • Strategic Program Investments
  • Integrated Transition Planning (MCYS, EDU, MCSS)

RELATED:

  • The Path to 2025: Ontario’s Accessibility Action Plan (MEDG)
  • Accessibility rules for educational institutions, including those in:
    • Education Act (1990)
    • Post-secondary Education Choice and Excellence Act, 2000
    • Private Career Colleges Act, 2005
    • Ontario Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology Act, 2002
  • Ontario Public School Boards’ Association’s accessibility resources for educators
  • Council of Ontario Universities’ accessibility resources for postsecondary staff
  • Access to Opportunities Strategy for Youth with Disabilities
  • Ontario Chamber of Commerce’s Accessibility Works program, including:
    • Abilities Connect Fund
    • EnAbling Change Fund

Biodiversity: It’s In Our Nature

Lead: Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry (youth and family initiatives)

  • Healthy Parks, Healthy People
  • Fish and Wildlife Marketing Strategy, including family fishing events and Learn to Fish
  • Ontario Children’s Outdoor Charter
  • Ontario’s parks and protected areas

RELATED:

  • Education programs at Historical Parks, including:
    • Breaking Down Barriers to History Weekend at Upper Canada Village
    • Black Robes in New France at Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons
    • Cosmic Horizons at David Thompson Astronomical Observatory
    • Full day, live in, co-op and ESL and enhanced educational programs at Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons
    • Learning adventures at Fort Williams Historical Park
    • Paddling into the Past: Recreational Canoeing and Natural History Program at Fort William Historical Park
    • Senior Youth Interpreters Program at Upper Canada Village
    • The Ways of the Wendat at Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons
    • The Wild Rice Project at Fort William Historical Park
    • Two Cultures: One Land and Black Robes in New France at Sainte-Marie Among the Hurons
    • Science, Math and Anishnawbe Cultural Perspectives (MTCS)
  • Emerging Leaders for Biodiversity
  • Minister’s Award for Environmental Excellence
  • Ontario Parks Partners Bursary Awards
  • Fun Pass initiative (MTCS)

Game ON: The Ontario Government’s Sport Plan

Lead: Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sport

  • Participation initiatives, including:
    • Partnerships to support children and youth (MTCS, EDU, MCYS)
    • Sport Pathway for Ontario Native Wellness initiative, in partnership with the Indigenous Sport and Wellness Council of Ontario
    • Safety in Amateur Combative Sport
  • Development initiatives, including:
    • Games Ontario
    • Pan Am/Parapan Am Legacies
  • Excellence initiatives, including:
    • Striving, celebrating excellence
    • Sport hosting

RELATED:

  • Recreation programs and initiatives, including:
    • Indigenous Community Recreation Activators Ontario program
    • Ontario Sport and Recreation Communities Fund
    • Provincial Recreation Organizations
    • Youth at Risk initiatives and resources
    • Ontario Trails Council and Strategy
    • Coaching and leadership support and resources support and resources Ontario’s After-School Program

#CycleON: Ontario’s Cycling Strategy

Lead: Ministry of Transportation

  • Making Ontario’s Roads Safer Act, 2015
  • Discussion Paper on Cycling Initiatives under the Climate Change Action Plan
  • Bicycle Safety, including:
    • Young Cyclist’s Guide (2015)
  • Cycling Training Fund
  • #CycleON Action Plan 1.0 and pamphlet
  • Smart Commute’s active and sustainable school travel initiative, including Bike to School Week (MTO, METROLINX)

Community Hubs

Lead: Ministry of Infrastructure (selected youth-related initiatives)

  • Enabling & Celebrating Community Hubs: One-Year Progress Update on Community Hubs in Ontario: A Strategic Framework and Action Plan (2016) (MOI)
  • Support for schools to become community hubs (EDU)
  • Ontario Regulation 444/98: Disposition of Surplus Real Property—support for schools to become community hubs, including regulatory changes (EDU)

Building Ontario: Our Infrastructure Plan

Lead: Ministry of Infrastructure