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• Operates a private practice mobile counselling service that provides children, youth, and their families with counselling services
• Offers services in residential group homes with high-risk youth and developmentally handicapped youth as well as support services for youth in schools
• Acts as an alternative service option when individuals or families have been placed on lengthy wait list:

Services can include:

• Advocacy
• Healthy relationships programming
• Individual behaviour and crisis management plans
• Outreach
• Short and long-term counselling
• Stress management
• Referrals
• Follow-up

• Offers child welfare services, ongoing support and education to enhance the lives of young children and families
• Provides services under the direction of Kunuwanimano Child and Family Services

Offers the following services:

• Intake and assessments to determine needs of families and community
• Case management
• Coordination of customary care and foster care
• Parental and family advocacy and support
• Referrals to outside agencies
• Coordination of events to enhance lives of children and families

Provides services and supports to families experiencing difficulty with issues related to parenting and children who are in need of protection

• Assesses the strengths and needs of families to assist in healthy problem solving
• Offers counseling

Intake and Investigation

• Serves as the first point of contact with the Children's Aid Society of Algoma
• Accepts and processes reports and/or concerns regarding a suspected child protection issue
• Upon approval to become involved with the family, conducts an assessment including initial intake to determine if a child is at risk
• Assigns a family to a Child Protection Worker if onging intervention is required

• Coordinates a safe, nurturing place for children to live who cannot reside in their own home
• Facilitates the Foster Care Process

Offers the following services for foster parents:

• Initial orientation and ongoing training
• Reimbursement for daily living expenses, as well as the child's medical, dental, clothing, and school-related expenses
• Incremental payments which compensate the foster parents for training and experience acquired through the agency
• Supplementary payments which are provided when children require more intensive help or supervision
• Regular visits and support from a family service worker and/or foster home worker
• Access to 24-hour emergency services and support
• Team meetings with other foster parents

Offers a variety of professional counselling services to youth, adults and their families

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Provides essential wokplace counselling and consultation services for businesses, organizations and employees through its EAP
• Functions as short-term counselling for a variety of issues including stress, life changes/stages, separation/divorce, retirement and grief

Counselling services also offered for areas of concern that may include but are not limited to:

• Drug and alcohol use/abuse and mental health
• Past or present abuse against women (Violence Against Women VAW)
• Sexual abuse or assault experienced by men (Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse)
• Domestic violence impacts on children and their mothers
• Abusive relationships between partners (Partner Assault Response PAR)

Community health centre

• Provides a range of responsive individual, family and community programs and services for the complete life journey of all Anishinabek people
• Cares for the physical health, mental health, and the health of the communities where Anishinabek people live by promoting wellness, preventing illness and trauma, and providing diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation

Offers a variety of programs and services including:

• Child welfare services
• Community health services
• Cultural programs and services
• Mental health and addiction services including walk-in clinics

Note: Not all programs and services are available at the branch offices. Contact the local office to determine what services are offered in community

Aims to strengthen and support families, children, youth and communities

• Provides programs that meet community specific needs and are rooted in traditional teachings
• Promotes cultural awareness and identity, language, customs and beliefs
• Relies on Elders to play a prominent role in teaching

Prevention and support services include:

• Community prevention and education
• Early intervention and support
• Crisis support and service coordination
• Healing and restoration
• Family and parenting counselling
• Advocacy by attending child welfare investigations on-reserve with the Children's Aid Society (CAS)
• Assistance to resolve child welfare crises and co-operatively plan out actions designed to divert future crises

Activities may include:

• Community feasts and celebrations
• Recreational activities and events such as powwows and summer festivals
• Educational and learning opportunities such as reading programs, sewing classes and cooking classes

Oversees all aspects of a foster care program that provides residential care for children who cannot be cared for by their biological parents or guardians

• Facilitates arrangements to provide a temporary home for children who are separated from their family
• Retains legal responsibility for the child
• Provides initial orientation, home study and ongoing training
• Arranges for home visits 7 days and 30 days after child's placement in home
• Makes weekly phone calls to foster parents
• Reimburses for all expenses incurred for welfare of child including living, medical, clothing, school and extra-curricular expenses
• Provides access to a full range of therapeutic and relief services
• Provides respite care to foster parents
• Supplies a foster parent handbook at office or available online
• Works with foster parents to create life plan for child; priority is to reunite child with family but if not possible, plans may include long-term foster care or adoption

Provides 3 types of foster care homes:

• Regular alternative care home: provides full-time daily care in a family setting
• Relief Alternative Care Homes: provides part-time care in a family setting
• Emergency Receiving Alternative Care Homes: Provides care in a family with very short notice

Serves as a mandated Native Child Welfare Prevention agency which ensures that Anishinawbek children, youth and families receive culturally appropriate services

• Created to follow a cultural service model of child protection services which involves parents, extended family members, elders, community resource workers and First Nation leaders
• Delivers a full spectrum of culturally appropriate prevention, early intervention and child protection services to ensure the safety of children and the well being of families
• Provides culturally-based education programs to communities on topics including domestic violence, parenting, life skills and self-esteem

Responsible for the administration of the following programs and services:

• Alternative/Foster Care (Genawenman Binojiuk)
• In-Home Support Program
• Mino Madzwin Youth Program
• Prevention and Support Services

• Provides prevention programs/services to community families involved with the Child Welfare system
• Offers ongoing support and education to enhance the lives of young children and families

Provides the following:

• Assessments to determine needs of families and community
• Advocacy and case management
• Parental and family support
• Referrals to outside agencies
• Coordination of events to enhance lives of children and families

• Offers child welfare services, ongoing support and education to enhance the lives of young children and families
• Provides services under the direction of Kunuwanimano Child and Family Services

Offers the following services:

• Intake and assessments to determine needs of families and community
• Case management
• Coordination of customary care and foster care
• Parental and family advocacy and support
• Referrals to outside agencies
• Coordination of events to enhance lives of children and families

• Offers child welfare services, ongoing support and education to enhance the lives of young children and families
• Provides services through Kunuwanimano Child and Family Services

Offers the following services:

• Intake and assessments to determine needs of families and community
• Case management
• Coordination of customary care and foster care
• Parental and family advocacy and support
• Referrals to outside agencies
• Coordination of events to enhance lives of children and families

Offers services, ongoing support and education to enhance the lives of young children and families

Works with Dilico Child and Family Services to provide the following:

• Assessments to determine needs of families and community
• Case management
• Parental and family support
• Referrals to outside agencies
• Coordination of events to enhance lives of children and families

• Offers child welfare services, ongoing support and education to enhance the lives of young children and families
• Provides services through Kunuwanimano Child and Family Services

Offers the following services:

• Intake and assessments to determine needs of families and community
• Case management
• Coordination of customary care and foster care
• Parental and family advocacy and support
• Referrals to outside agencies
• Coordination of events to enhance lives of children and families

• Responsible for carrying out support on behalf of Kina Gbezhgomi Child and Family Services that provides for the best interests of children and families in child welfare matters in and out of the court system
• Ensures the child's needs including cultural identity, language, community and family are being met in decisions of both short term and long term placements

Provides advocacy and support for children/youth in the following cases:

• Crown Ward no access
• Crown Ward with access
• Society Ward
• Extended Care and Maintenance
• Customary Care Agreement
• Adoption
• Supervision Order

Repatriation Services

• Processes requests to have children in external foster care brought back to homes within the community
• Provides advocacy on behalf of the child and family

• Delivers child care and protection services and family support services to community members
• Administers child welfare prevention services in collaboration with Kina Gbezhgomi Child and Family Services located in Wikwemikong
• Aims to reduce the removal of M'Chigeeng First Nation children from their family, culture, and community
• Partners with community police officers and local nursing staff to identify and support troubled families

Provides the following services:

• Advocacy on behalf of children, youth and families
• Assistance and support to children in care
• Case management
• Development of plans of care
• Ensures follow-up of aftercare plans with community families
• Referrals to individual and family counselling, treatment centres, cultural and traditional services, parenting programs, anger management and domestic violence programs, and other needed services
• Training for child care providers
• Support and guidance in reuniting siblings who are/have been part of the foster care system

• Provides wraparound, confidential care for individuals who have experienced sexual and/or domestic violence at any time in their lives
• Works in conjunction with a multi-disciplinary team including cultural supports
• Supports survivors at every stage of the healing journey using a holistic approach and traditional Indigenous healing methods

Provides the following services:

• Initial assessments
• Supportive and stabilization counselling
• Trauma based treatment intervention
• Advocacy, system navigation and case management support

Immediate services and support for victims of sexual assault/domestic violence include:

• Crisis intervention and emotional support
• Testing and treatment for Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs) including HIV Post-Exposure Prophylaxis
• Emergency contraceptive options such as the morning-after pill
• Risk assessment and safety planning
• Referrals to community agencies for additional support