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Goals, Objectives, Strategies, and Results — Continued
Summary Overview of Ministry of Children and Family Development
Service Plan Goals, Objectives and Strategies.
| GOAL 1
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Adults with developmental
disabilities and children and youth with special needs achieve
their full potential, participate in, and contribute to their
communities. |
RESOURCES
(2004/05) |
Budget: $609,573,000
FTEs: 455 |
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CORE
BUSINESS
AREA |
Community
Living Services |
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| OBJECTIVES |
Objective 1.1: Increase choice and flexibility for
individuals and families.
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Objective 1.2: Strengthen evidence-based early intervention
and support strategies, to assist families in caring for children
with special needs at home. |
Objective 1.3: Transform community living services
to achieve a sustainable, accessible and integrated system.
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| STRATEGIES |
• Conduct regular analyses of the satisfaction of
individuals served with the services they receive or have
received.
• Continue to provide a broader range of options
for the use of individualized/direct funding for children
with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
• Enhance access to appropriate interventions for
children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder through
inter-Ministry planning and collaboration.
• Provide a range of funding options, including individualized/direct
funding (IF/DF), to maximize choice, innovation and shared
responsibility.
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• Improve transition planning at key developmental
milestones.
• Provide evidence-based services and improve access
to information about these services, to prevent children
and youth with special needs from coming into care.
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• Support CLBC's efforts to strengthen partnerships
within the community living sector through: joint planning
on service transformation; creating opportunities to increase
collaboration between the non-profit and private service providers,
and; supporting efforts to generate efficiencies through sharing
of fiscal, physical and human resources.
• In partnership with individuals and families, provide
more flexibility, choice, and shared responsibility with
respect to services and supports.
• Support the increased use of informal, unfunded
community supports and partnerships to reduce reliance on
formal, funded resources.
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| GOAL 2 |
Children and
youth are healthy and safe in their families and communities. |
RESOURCES
(2004/05) |
Budget: $661,722,000
(CFD) and $94,028,000 (Provincial Services)
FTEs: 2,641 (CFD) and 711 (Provincial Services) |
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CORE
BUSINESS
AREAS |
Child and Family Development
Provincial Services |
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| OBJECTIVES |
Objective 2.1:
Increase family and community capacity to exercise responsibility
and support early childhood development that is informed by
current research and evidence. |
Objective 2.2:
Transform child welfare practice to be increasingly evidence-based,
such that it promotes safety, family continuity, and permanency
for children. |
Objective 2.3:
A compre-hensive service delivery network based on the
needs of children and their families. |
Objective 2.4:
Increase culturally appropriate services delivered by
Aboriginal communities for their children and families. |
Objective 2.5:
Increase the sustainability and responsiveness of the
service delivery system to specific child and youth populations. |
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| STRATEGIES |
• Promote community-based prevention
and intervention strategies regarding the risks of alcohol
consumption during pregnancy to prevent Fetal Alcohol Spectrum
Disorder (FASD) and to promote innovative approaches to assist
communities to support individuals and families living with
FASD. |
• Transform Government's response to child welfare
concerns.
• Reshape case planning to rely more on Alternative
Dispute Resolution processes.
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• Redesign services to ensure that families,
children and youth can directly access services in their community,
from a well-defined network of effective and culturally appropriate
services that focus on evidence-based programming. |
• Implement initiatives to increase the role of the
Aboriginal community in addressing risks to keep children
within their family and community.
• Enhance partnerships with Aboriginal communities.
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• Increase the availability and quality of mental
health services by implementing the multi-year Child and
Youth Mental Health Plan.
• Minimize youth involvement in the criminal justice
system through treatment and alternatives to custody.
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• Develop a prevention focused, community-based,
integrated service delivery system for young children and
their families that improves outcomes and strengthens partnerships
with the private/non-profit and community sectors to broaden
community involvement, maximize existing community resources
and capacity for Early Childhood Development.
• Support Aboriginal communities to develop and implement
early childhood development strategies.
• Refocus supports to children with special needs
in child care and community settings to be more integrated
and flexible in response to parent needs and work to eliminate
the wait lists for existing supported child care services
for children up to six years of age.
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• Transform planning for children in
care to focus more on developing and maintaining family stability
and life long relationships. |
• Create partnerships involving other Ministries,
service providers, informal supports and ministry staff
throughout the province, through collaborative service initiatives.
• Reinvest savings into direct family development
and youth services, with priority given to Aboriginal services.
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• Implement initiatives to increase the percentage
of Aboriginal children in care served by delegated agencies
or cared for by Aboriginal families.
• Engage with other ministries/
governments to improve the socio-economic well-being of
Aboriginal children and families.
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• Develop and implement safe care
services for sexually exploited youth. |
| GOAL 3
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A community-based
service delivery system that is effectively supported and
monitored. |
RESOURCES
(2004/05) |
Budget: $16,245,000
FTEs: 176 |
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CORE
BUSINESS
AREA |
Executive and Support Services |
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| OBJECTIVES |
Objective 3.1: Implement regional and
provincial governance approaches that include appropriate
accountability mechanisms. |
Objective 3.2: Support government
and ministry priorities.
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| STRATEGIES |
• Implement a comprehensive plan to ensure a smooth
and orderly transition to new authorities, including establishing
a Governance Management Team that will build key relationships
and a co-ordination capacity.
• Enable and support ministry staff, interim authority
boards and regional transition councils to prepare for readiness
to effectively fulfill their proposed new roles and responsibilities.
• Develop and implement an accountability framework
for the authorities.
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• Implement a comprehensive human resource plan to
manage and support staff through the transformation of the
ministry's service delivery system.
• Demonstrate commitment to controlling regulatory
burden and regulatory quality through compliance with the
Regulatory Reform Criteria set out in the Regulatory Reform
Policy.
• Implement a comprehensive Internal Stakeholders
Relations Plan.
• Amend existing, or create new, legislation as
required to support ministry's requirements.
• Implement an integrated approach to risk management
throughout the ministry.
• Improve MCFD's service delivery procurement method
from the current practice of funding inputs and facilities
to an outputs/outcomes method for paying the actual cost
per unit of client services provided.
• Implement a comprehensive accountability and performance
management system.
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