Component: Reintegration/Rehabilitation Services - Community

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

Requirements

Disposition of records

  1. In the event the Service Provider ceases operation, it is agreed that the Service Provider will not dispose of any records related to the services provided for under this contract without the prior consent of Ontario, which may be given subject to such conditions as Ontario deems advisable
  2. For purposes of services provided pursuant to the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) (Canada), and the Provincial Offences Act (POA), upon termination of services to the young person, the Service Provider will retain and ultimately dispose of records relating to the young person in accordance with the Youth Criminal Justice Act (Canada), the Child, Youth and Family Services Act (CYFSA) 2017 and the policies and procedures of Ontario

Confidentiality

  1. The Service Provider, its directors, officers, employees, agents and volunteers will hold confidential and will not disclose or release to any person other than Ontario at any time during or following the term of this contract, except where required by law, any information or document that tends to identify any individual in receipt of services without obtaining the written consent of the individual or the individual's parent or guardian prior to the release or disclosure of such information or Where the Service Provider is a municipality, or such other "institution" as defined in the Municipal Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, the provisions of such Act with respect to the disclosure or release of information apply
  2. Where the Service Provider is providing services for the purposes of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA)(Canada) and the Provincial Offences Act (POA) the Service Provider, its directors, officers, employees, agents, and volunteers will abide by the confidentiality provisions of the Youth Criminal Justice Act (YCJA) (Canada) and the policies and procedures of Ontario

Transfer Payment Recipients will follow the Youth Justice Services Manual (YJSM) that was first issued April 1, 2006, and all subsequent revisions. “Contents Applicable to All” and the “Transfer Payment Community Based Programs and Services” sections outline minimum requirements for the Transfer Payment Recipients

Service objectives

  • Provides community-based prevention and intervention programs and services to support gang-involved youth or youth at-risk of gang involvement and prevent youth violence
  • Programming and services support the development of skills, strengths and protective factors and address risk factors associated with gang involvement and youth violence

Service description

People served

Gang-involved youth or youth at risk of gang involvement between the ages of 12-20 at the start of service or programming

  • At-risk and high-risk youth with risk factors for gang involvement
    • At-risk youth: At-risk youth experience some risk factors and, through family and / or community supports and their own personal skills / resilience, avoid violent incidents
    • High risk youth: High-risk youth experience multiple risk factors across and within multiple domains of risk (individual, family, peers, school (e.g., and have become engaged in specific incidents (i.e., fight at school, sibling in conflict with law, acute family conflict, etc.) that further increase their risks
  • Family members and siblings of youth clients
  • Youth in conflict with the law and/or at risk of criminal offending youth that are, or have been, victimized, exploited, or trafficked by gangs
  • Youth that reside in a high needs community with increased exposure to risk factors for gang involvement

Program/service features

  • GPIP programs operate with the goal of reducing risk factors associated with youth violence and gang involvement and supporting the development of protective factors, positive behaviours, attitudes, and strengths
  • Programs will support the development of strengths and skills, to support and foster safety, wellbeing, resilience in youth
  • For youth in conflict with the law, GPIP further supports youth rehabilitation and reintegration into community settings
  • GPIP programs must include two streams of individualized supports for youth: prevention and intervention services
  • Programs may also provide prevention focused community presentations and workshops to support community education and awareness on issues relevant to gang prevention/intervention programming (e.g., gang risk factors, violence prevention, program awareness), and to build on existing strengths and promotive factors in communities

Prevention (individualized):

  • Prevention-based programs and services to support at-risk youth to address risk factors associated with gang involvement, violence and victimization and criminal offending
  • Programs will support the development of strengths and skills to foster safety, wellbeing, and resilience in youth
  • Programs and services may be offered in individual and group settings
  • Programming may include
    • Case planning and management
    • Intervention
    • Individual and group counselling
    • Family supports and support for siblings
    • Employment and job skills training
    • School and educational supports
    • Mentorship and youth leadership opportunities
    • Life and parenting skills
    • Cultural and community education
    • Substance use education
    • Recreational activities
    • Settlement supports
    • Conflict mediation:
      • Intervention-based programs and services to support high-risk youth to address risk factors associated with gang involvement, violence and victimization and criminal offending
      • Programming includes supports to facilitated gang exiting. Intervention programs may be offered in individual and group settings and may include case planning and case management
      • individual and group counselling gang exiting
      • family supports and support for siblings’ employment and job skills training school and educational supports
      • mentorship and youth leadership opportunities life and parenting skills
      • cultural and community education substance use education recreational activities
      • settlement supports
      • conflict mediation
  • Intervention-based programs and services to support high-risk youth to address risk factors associated with gang involvement, violence and victimization and criminal offending
    • Programming includes supports to facilitated gang exiting. Intervention programs may be offered in individual and group settings and may include case planning and case management
    • individual and group counselling
    • gang exiting
    • family supports and support for siblings
    • employment and job skills
    • training school and educational supports
    • mentorship and youth leadership opportunities
    • life and parenting skills
    • cultural and community education substance use education
    • recreational activities
    • settlement supports
    • conflict mediation

 Presentations and Workshops:

  • School and community-based workshops and presentations that provide knowledge building activities on a diverse range of topics to support gang awareness, prevention, and violence reduction
  • Presentations and workshops should be reflective and responsive to youth, family, and communities that they serve

Individual planning and case management (standard terms)

  • If a Probation Officer is assigned as the case manager, the probation officer prepares a Case Management Plan, guided by the Risk/Need Assessment, as the overall service plan for the young person.
  • If there is no assigned probation case manager, the service provider will develop an individualized plan for each young person that reflects the assessment of needs, the specific services/supports/interventions to be provided and the expected outcomes of service.
  • Criminogenic needs will be specifically identified to guide the selection of appropriate targets of service.
  • Probation Officers are assigned to all young persons in detention. Where a Probation Officer refers a youth as part of a detention community release plan, services will be coordinated by the Probation Officer.

Service will be

  • Based on cognitive behavioural principles and interventions, best practices, and evidence- informed and/or evidence-based programming, and integrated as appropriate with other services provided to youth within government and in the community
  • Supportive of initiatives that address specific risk and protective factors associated with youth violence and youth gangs in communities where these issues exist or are emerging
  • Promote the implementation of best practice interventions to provide youth with alternatives to joining gangs or gang exiting strategies
  • Draw on best practice research for supporting youth in or at-risk of gang involvement as identified by Public Safety Canada’s National Crime Prevention Centre (NCPC)
  • Reflective and responsive to the youth, family and community strengths and needs
  • Sensitive to the social, linguistic, and cultural diversity of families and communities
  • Aimed at increasing the likelihood of successful rehabilitation and reintegration for gang involved youth and youth at risk of gang involvement
  • Responsible for offering youth the option to complete the Youth Attitudes Survey within 30 days of the start of service and at the three and six month point of service
  • Aligned to support the achievement of outcomes established through EOYAP
    • Positive changes in behaviour
    • Positive changes in attitudes
    • Positive changes in risk and protective factors
  • Aligned where appropriate to support the achievement of the Youth Justice Division’s four outcomes for youth
    • Improved functioning and positive social behaviour
    • Increased skills and abilities
    • Increased youth engagement with supports and
    • Decreased re-offending
  • Responsible for completing training modules, reviewing business processes, and viewing program results of the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS) Youth Justice Outcomes Framework (YJOF) via the YJOF SharePoint Site (please contact regional office for site access)
  • Responsible for demonstrating outcome achievement using the following tools of the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS) Youth Justice Outcomes Framework (YJOF) consistent with timelines and processes specified in training modules
    • Actively offering youth the option to complete the Non-Residential Youth Experience Survey (NRES)
    • Completing the Monthly Survey Distribution Record
    • Completing the Outcome Data Collection Form (ODCF)
  • Aligned with Anti-Racism and human rights principles to challenge racism and oppression in all its forms

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

# of GPIP workshops/presentations: GPIP

GPIP - The number of one-off workshops or presentations provided in community and/or school-based settings during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st). Does not include ongoing school-based programming.

# of youth referred to GPIP by schools: GPIP

GPIP - The number of youth referred to a GPIP prevention or intervention program by schools during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st).

# of Youth referred by Youth Outreach Workers (YOWs) or Youth in Transition Workers (YITWs): GPIP

GPIP - The number of youth referred to a GPIP prevention or intervention program by Youth Outreach Workers (YOW) or Youth in Transition Workers (YITW) during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st).

# of Youth referred to GPIP by police services: GPIP

GPIP - The number of youth referred to a GPIP prevention or intervention program by police services during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st).

# of youth referred to GPIP by community agencies: GPIP

GPIP - The number of youth referred to a GPIP prevention or intervention program by community agencies during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st).

# of youth referred to GPIP by children’s aid societies (CASs): GPIP

GPIP - The number of youth referred to a GPIP prevention or intervention program by children’s aid societies (CASs) staff during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st).

# of families receiving programming: intervention: GPIP

GPIP - The total number of individual family members (e.g., parents, siblings) who receive or participate in a GPIP intervention service during the fiscal year (April 1st – March31st). Does not include youth family members served through community or school-based workshops or presentations.

# of families receiving programming: prevention: GPIP

GPIP - The total number of individual family members (e.g., parents, siblings) who receive or participate in a GPIP prevention service during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st). Does not include family members served through community or school-based workshops or presentations

# of hours of direct service: intervention: GPIP

GPIP - The total number of staff hours spent in direct contact with young persons or family members, face to face or by telephone, to provide GPIP intervention services during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st).

# of GPIP workshop/presentation participants: GPIP

GPIP - The number of participants (e.g., youth, families, community members, etc.) of one off GPIP community or school-based workshops/presentation during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st). Does not include participants in ongoing school-based programming.

# of youth referred to GPIP by Youth Probation: GPIP

GPIP - The number of youth referred to a GPIP prevention or intervention program by Youth Probation during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st).

# of individuals served: prevention: GPIP

GPIP - The number of individual youth who are currently receiving or have received a GPIP prevention service during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st) and have not been charged with a criminal offence (pre-charge). One program start and is completed in a fiscal year: A young person is counted once in a fiscal year where the service is completed. Multiple services/one service provider: Where a young person is receiving multiple services from one service provider, that young person is counted in each program. Multiple admissions in-year – same service/same program: A young person is counted once if there is a break in service in the fiscal year and the young person re-enters the same program, with the same service provider. A young person is counted as a new admission if they return to the same service provider on referral by the case manager to attend a new or similar program. Same service is defined as a program delivered to a youth addressing one (original) charge. Multiple admissions in-year – new service/same program: A young person is counted each time, where a service is completed in the fiscal year and the young person is the recipient of the same service, under a new charge. New service is defined as a program delivered to a youth to address a new charge. Fiscal Year overlap: A young person is counted once in each fiscal year where the service being provided begins in one fiscal year and continues into a new fiscal year. Where a young person is receiving multiple services from one service provider, that young person is counted in each program.

# of individuals served: intervention: GPIP

GPIP - The number of individual youth who are currently receiving or have received a GPIP intervention service during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st). Intervention services include all programs and services intended to support high risk gang involved youth and/or their families. One program start and completion in a fiscal year: A young person is counted once in a fiscal year where the service is completed. Multiple services/one service provider: Where a young person is receiving multiple services from one service provider, that young person is counted in each program. Multiple admissions in-year – same service/same program: A young person is counted once if there is a break in service in the fiscal year and the young person re- enters the same program, with the same service provider. A young person is counted as a new admission if they return to the same service provider on referral by the case manager to attend a new or similar program. Same service is defined as a program delivered to a youth addressing one (original) charge. Multiple admissions in-year – new service/same program: A young person is counted each time, where a service is completed in the fiscal year and the young person is the recipient of the same service, under a new charge. New service is defined as a program delivered to a youth to address a new charge. Fiscal Year overlap: A young person is counted once in each fiscal year where the service being provided begins in one fiscal year and continues into a new fiscal year. Where a young person is receiving multiple services from one service provider, that young person is counted in each program.

# of youth who self-referred or referred by family to GPIP

GPIP - The number of youth who referred themselves, or were referred by family members, to a GPIP prevention or intervention program during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st).

Enhanced OYAP: Gang Prevention/Intervention: 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).

# of youth referred to GPIP by Youth Justice custody/detention facilities (open and secure): GPIP

GPIP - The number of youth referred to a GPIP prevention or intervention program.

# of youth referred to GPIP by "other" source: GPIP

GPIP - The number of youth referred to a GPIP prevention or intervention program by a referral source not captured in list of referral source types during the fiscal year (April 1st – March 31st).