2024–2025 Services delivered: training for Indigenous societies
Component: provincial initiatives
Legislation: Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 (CYFSA)
Service objectives
To provide training to Indigenous child protection staff.
Service description
The transfer payment recipient will develop and deliver training to build capacity of their staff to meet provincial child protection standards.
Training should not be duplicative of the provincial child protection training provided by the Ontario Association of Children’s Aid Societies (OACAS).
Program/service features
The services are directed at Indigenous child protection staff employed by Indigenous societies including new workers, authorized workers and managers.
Training will support increased specialized capacity and expertise in the following areas
- Admission and discharge criteria for children and youth in care
- Access to service process
- Individual planning and goal setting for children, youth and families
- Community linkages and service collaboration] (where appropriate)
The program/services contracted by the ministry will reflect the following features.
Program goals
Training will be developed and delivered with a view to increasing capacity of Indigenous staff to deliver child protection services while supporting recruitment and retention through increased educational opportunities.
Services will be
- Reflective and responsive program/services to child/youth, family and community strengths and needs
- Accountable to the child/youth, family and community
- Sensitive to the social, linguistic and cultural diversity of families and Indigenous communities
- Staffed by individuals with the appropriate range of skills and abilities necessary to effectively develop and deliver training for child protection workers to meet the needs of children, youth and families
Reporting requirements
The transfer payment recipient will monitor and evaluate training to confirm that program goals and service objectives are being met.
Service Data Name | Definition |
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# of Individuals Trained: Staff Training: Training for Indigenous Societies | Total number of adoptive families registered for information/awareness sessions by location or online: West. |
# of Individuals Trained: Trainer's Training: Training for Indigenous Societies | Total number of adoptive families registered for information/awareness sessions by location or online: West. |
# of Participant Training Days Delivered: Trainer's Training: Training for Indigenous Societies | Total number of adoptive families registered for information/awareness sessions by location or online: West. |
Training for Indigenous Societies: Ministry-funded agency expenditures | Total ministry-funded expenses for the transfer payment recipient to administer and/or deliver this service in the reporting year (cumulative). |