2024–2025 Services delivered: community programs — child and family intervention — operating residential
Component: Child welfare - community and prevention supports
Legislation: Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017 (CYFSA)
Service objectives
To provide community based residential accommodation, group care and supervision supports for children and youth who are experiencing social, emotional, behavioural or psychiatric problems.
To provide appropriate coping strategy and skill development training that will enable the child or youth to function effectively at home, school and in the community.
Service description
Program/service features
The program/services contracted by the ministry will reflect the following features.
People served
- Children and youth with an identified social, emotional, behavioral or psychiatric need, and their families
- Children and youth - under 18 years of age
- Documented priority for service as determined by the local access mechanism
Program goals
Community based accommodation and supports
- support up to 24-hours per day and may include a staff or treatment foster care model focus intensive counseling and multi-dimensional services and supports for children and youth who are experiencing social, emotional or behavioral difficulties at home, in school or in the community
- counseling and parenting skill development training for families to better enable them to manage and support their children
Individual planning and goal setting
The transfer payment recipient will prepare a plan of care for each child and youth that reflects an assessment of their needs and preferences. The plan of care will identify the specific services/supports received by the child/youth, the expected outcomes and be based on the principles of person-centred planning, self- determination and choice.
Services will be
- Reflective and responsive to the voice, wishes and needs of the child/youth, as well as 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
- Admission to service is obtained through the ministry designated access to service mechanism, which identifies individuals for priority access to service
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 Name | Definition |
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# of days of residential care: Community programs | The number of 24-hour periods for which people will be provided residential care during the fiscal year. The day on which a person arrives is included as one day of service. The day a person leaves is excluded. |
# of individuals served - operating residential | Report the unique/unduplicated number of individuals that received Children's Special Needs In-home Respite services in the reporting year. An individual is counted only once per year where they received service. |
Community programs — child and family intervention – operating residential: 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). |