Component: Child welfare - community and prevention supports

Legislation: Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 (CYFSA)

Service objectives

To provide funding for research, demonstration and training projects, or other innovative measures, promoting prevention of child abuse and neglect, coordinating community efforts to address child abuse and neglect and increasing community awareness.

Service description

Program/service features

  • The program/services contracted by the ministry will reflect the following features
  • research, demonstration, training projects and other innovative measures that promote the prevention of child abuse and neglect
  • the services are directed at children and youth, under 18 years of age, and their families, in the general community and have a focus of prevention and increasing community awareness

Services will be

  • Reflective and responsive 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 respond effectively to the needs of children, youth and families
  • The support is based on the child's and youth's assessed needs, preferences and available individual, agency, community and contracted ministry resources

Reporting requirements

The following service data will be reported on at an Interim and Final stage. Please refer to your final agreement for report back due dates and targets.

Service Data NameDefinition
# of individuals served: Child abuse programThe number of individuals for whom a record has been created and who were recipients of the approved service(s) at some point during the fiscal year.
Community programs — child abuse: Ministry-funded agency expendituresTotal ministry-funded expenses for the transfer payment recipient to administer and/or deliver this service in the reporting year (cumulative).