ONTARIO WORKS

Carol Taylor, Administrator
Tel: (705) 437-1581
or (705) 437-1337 ext.2230
Fax: (705) 437-4597
E-mail: ctaylor@georginaisland.com

Responsibilities:

* Determine eligibility of applications, process applications/budgets and issue according to Ontario Works regulations.
* NCB: applications or funding under NCB (re:Breakfast Program)
* ODSP: Client and Non-Client referrals, Assistance with Discretionary Benefits
* Non-SARS (re: funerals & burials)
* Temporary Care Assistance
* Emergency Assistance
* First Nations Emergency Energy Fund

CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES

Shannon Crate
Phone: 705-437-1337 ext. 4223
Alternate Phone: 905-960-9133
Fax: 705-437-4597Address: RR 2 Box 13, Sutton West
E-mail: shannoncrate@hotmail.com

Child Welfare/ Prevention Service
The First Nation Child Welfare Program has gradually become much broader in scope than was intended when the First Nation "prevention program" was introduced. Beyond primary prevention, the First Nation CWP worker has become heavily involved in individual and family casework and in the facilitation and support of customary care arrangements (i.e. secondary and tertiary prevention work), and is involved in CAS protection work (i.e. conducting emergency interventions with police and making emergency placements when CAS staff are not immediately available, accompanying CAS staff during their protection investigations, fulfilling monitoring obligations in respect to supervision and placement orders). The First Nation CWP worker acts as a liaison between our families and the CAS, but is not the Children's Aid Society. The worker has also taken on the responsibility of several areas that are not funded such as executing 'band representative' responsibilities, YOA (Young Offenders Act), mental health and child development, family violence, customary care, developing local and regional protocols and networking with outside agencies.