Component: provincial initiatives

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

Service description

To provide funding to Indigenous children’s societies participating in Children at Risk of Exploitation (CARE) Units to strengthen youth supports and provide early intervention and prevention services to Indigenous children and youth who are victims of sex trafficking.

People served

  • Indigenous children and youth ages 12-17 referred for being at high risk of sex trafficking
  • Indigenous children and youth in the care of the child welfare system, and their families

Program/service features

Specific types of programs/services include

  • CARE Unit Indigenous Liaisons will liaise and consult with CARE Units to ensure culturally responsive services are provided to First Nations, Inuit and Métis children and youth who are at high risk/ victims of child sex trafficking
  • Indigenous Liaisons will work in collaboration with Indigenous children’s aid societies, police services and other community service providers to deliver dedicated and specialized supports to Indigenous children, youth and families involved in or at high risk of sex trafficking
  • Indigenous Liaisons will deliver culturally safe anti-human trafficking workshops and training to children’s aid societies, police services and the communities they serve, if there are no anti-trafficking training or workshop programs otherwise funded by the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services to deliver these activities

Specific service provided

Culturally responsive support services to First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families at high risk of sex trafficking.

Program goals

The goal of CARE Unit Indigenous Liaisons is to

  • Work with CARE Units to prevent high risk children and youth from being further sexually exploited and sex trafficked
  • Intervene and provide support and resources to children and youth who are being sexually exploited and trafficked
  • Raise awareness and build capacity within Indigenous and non-Indigenous children’s aid societies, and community service providers to identify and address child sex trafficking, specific to Indigenous children and youth
  • Raise awareness of child sex trafficking, specific to Indigenous children and youth, through training and workshops, if there are no anti-trafficking training or workshop programs otherwise funded by the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services to deliver these activities

Ministry expectations

The transfer payment recipient will be expected to monitor and evaluate activity(ies), performance and to confirm that program objectives and deliverables are being met as per a program and evaluation framework that will be approved by the ministry.

The transfer payment recipient will be familiar with the requirements of the Anti- Racism Act and the Standards, applicable privacy legislation, and other legislative obligations relating to collecting, using, disclosing, de-identifying, managing, disposing, and reporting information, as well as establish protocols for privacy breaches and management response to security incidents.

Reporting requirements

The service and expenditure data will be reported on an Interim and Final stage in a supplementary report-back template.

Service Data Name Definition

CARE Indigenous Liaison Program 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).