Component: provincial initiatives

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

Service objectives

To carry out capacity development and transition activities respecting the development of an Indigenous children’s aid society.

Service description

Capacity development will take place in partnership and consultation with the communities that the Indigenous agency serves and the children’s aid societies in their geographic area.

Program/service features

  • The agency will develop a service delivery model directed at Indigenous children, youth and their families with a focus of support and/or prevention of admission to care
  • The agency will also build capacity in the following key areas: governance, financial management, human resources, information and information technology, legal services, quality assurance and service delivery (child protection, child-in-care, alternative /customary care and adoption services)
  • The program/services contracted by the ministry will reflect the following features

People served

Indigenous children, youth and their families residing within the proposed geographic jurisdiction (this can be edited to fit the unique circumstances of the Indigenous agency and the proposed population to be served; e.g. including Métis and Inuit).

Program goals

Services will comply with legislative and ministry requirements while meeting the cultural needs of the First Nation, Métis, and Inuit communities to be served, as well as First Nation, Inuit and Métis children and families residing within their proposed geographic jurisdiction.

Services will be

  • reflective and responsive to child/youth, family and community strengths and needs
  • 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

Reporting requirements

The transfer payment recipient will monitor and evaluate Indigenous Agency Capacity Development to confirm service objectives are being met.

Service Data Name Definition

# of Staff Training Days Delivered: Provincial Initiatives - Indigenous Agency Capacity Development

Total number of adoptive families registered for information/awareness sessions by location or online: West.

Indigenous Agency Capacity Development: 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).