Thank you.
The funding model that has been developed and agreed upon by the federal and provincial governments will be providing a shift of the resources. It will be going to prevention and early intervention. This means that if a family comes in and is at what would be determined to be low risk, there would be ways in which the social work system could refer and/or support the family in terms of the services they need.
It would be working with respect to not someone outside of the family telling them, in a prescriptive way, “Here's what you need to do: A, B, C, and D.” This would involve working closely with the family, with the mother, the father, the extended family if there is extended family, to talk about what they believe are the important things they need in order to take the kinds of steps with their children that they want to take.
It might be as simple as the fact that they can't get their laundry done because they don't have a machine in their house and they can't get to the laundromat. It might be something about wanting to get into the world of employment. Is there some educational support that we can either lever, link, or help to support? Is it going to be something around looking at basic needs within the house that are preventing the family from moving forward? Is it parenting issues they want to address with respect to parent-teen conflict and/or parenting of little ones who are going through difficult times in terms of developmental stages?