Component: provincial initiatives

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

Service objectives

To provide short-term funding to community-based organizations (including a broad range of sectors such as child welfare, education, municipal, health, etc.) to support the development and/or delivery and/or evaluation of community-driven initiatives that are intended to contribute to achieving the long-term goals of the Child Welfare Redesign (CWR) Strategy.

Service description

The program/services funded by the ministry will reflect the following features:

Program/service features

Specific types of programs/services include:

  • Early Development Seed Funding: To support community-based organizations to build capacity and/or conduct community-led research, engagement, data collection and other co-design activities that may contribute to the development of solutions to achieve the long-term goals of CWR; and/or
  • Intervention Implementation Funding: To support community-based organizations to design, deliver and test/evaluate new or existing services/models/initiatives that may contribute to the achievement of the long- term goals of CWR

Program goals

The long-term goals of the Child Welfare Redesign Strategy are

  • transforming child, youth and family services in communities to provide a holistic, prevention and early-intervention oriented child, youth and family services system that enhances child, youth and family well-being; and
  • improving outcomes for children and youth that are in care
  • Services will align with the following guiding principles
  • Whole-of-Community: Community-led and cross-sectoral and/or cross-ministry approaches that develop/enhance shared responsibility and accountability for child, youth, family well-being
  • Child, Youth and Family Voice: Child, youth and family voice is central to policy and program development, prioritizing co-development methodologies
  • Equity & Evidence Driven: Informed by data & evidence and prioritizes embedding an equity and anti-racism lens across policies, programs and initiatives in order to eliminate disproportionalities and outcome disparities for equity seeking communitie
  • Lifting & Shifting Resources: Align with the long-term goals of shifting funding, capacity and efforts to prevention and enhancing child, youth and family well- being and away from protection-focused approaches

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 workplan and evaluation framework that will be approved by the ministry.

Reporting requirements

The service and expenditure data will be reported on at an Interim and Final stage in a supplementary report-back template that will be provided by the ministry.

Service Data Name Definition

Child Welfare Redesign Prototype 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).