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Aboriginal Affairs and Affaires autochtones et Northern Development Canada Dveloppement du Nord Canada SECRET and Au SI.. Canada Dvhr I - First Nations Child and F a m i l y Services P r o g r a m (FNCFS) The Way Forward

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Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada Affaires autochtones et Développement du Nord Canada

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First Nations Child and

F a m i l y

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(FNCFS)

The Way Forward Presentation to Françoise Ducros, ADM, ESDPPS

August29, 2012 Odette Johnston Director, Children and Family Services Directorate 1141

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P u r p

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Presentation

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To provide options and seek approval for next steps in the

reform of the FNCFS Program which:

  • Sustain the momentum gained over the last five years of

program reform;

  • Incorporate lessons learned into future actions;
  • Aligns with ever changing provincial/territorial regimes; and
  • Ensure program funding optimizes First Nation capacity to

achieve better long-term outcomes for First Nation children and families on reserve.

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Affaires autochtones et Aboriginal Affairs and

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Développement du rJord Canada Northern Development Canada

History of FNCFS Program

  • Subsequent I3udgets reinforced the Government’s priority for EPFA now implemented in six regions, reaching 68

%of First Nations children on reserve

  • Speech from the Throne, the Government of Canada committed to “working together to support families and

children”.

  • Budget 2012 stated the FNCFS program has made progress in “strengthening partnerships with Aboriginal

peoples” in the past two years.

  • AANDC funds 105 Agencies and funding has more than doubled from $238 million in 1998-1999 to $600 million

in 2012-2013

Ontario’s 1965 Agreement Under Directive 20-1 funding, AANDC funded 34 child welfare service providers on reserve

AANDC increased funding to provinces, Yukon and more than 100 First Nation Child and Family Service agencies AANDC introduced the Enhanced Prevention Focused Approach, beginning in Alberta.

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Drivers Behind Reform

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impleñ’iGntatl

  • n of EPFA is

interrupted with outside pressures while remaining jurisdictions are anxious

to implement

EPFA

Progress:of the

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Enhanced

P r e v e n t i

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Approach

  • EPFA is being implemented through tripartite partnerships

with Provinces, Territories and First Nations.

  • EPFA places more emphasis on prevention activities and

culturally appropriate care such as kinship care.

  • EPFA allows greater flexibility in funding by allowing

Agencies to target funding where it is needed.

  • EPFA does not result in overnight decreases in the number
  • f children in care.
  • The number of children in care and associated

maintenance costs may initially continue to increase until the full implementation of the new model takes effect, which

is expected to take several years.

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.FNCFS.Natio.nal

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Affaires autochtones et Développement du Nord Canada Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada 0-18 2,136

CIC 106

Directive 20-1

EPFA

1965 Agreement

Ic 2,474

3FNs lAgency 0-18 1,006

CIC 135

22 Agencies 0-18 18,510

CIC 760

18 Agencies 0-18 28,565

CIC 1,779

701

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17 Agencies 0-18 27,716

CIC 1,139

53 Agencies 0-18 29,219

CIC 1,537

New Brunswick

15 ENs

1 Agency

0-18 1,006

CIC 189

— Edward

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1 FN org

provides prevention 0-18 211

CIC 6

Scotia

13 FNs

1 Agency

0-18 3,670

CIC 207

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Program Budget and Projected Expenditures (2007 - 2016)

$800.0

K EPFA

Investments

K Base Funding

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Plus Nova Plus Scotia&

Quebecand Saskatchew

2007-08 2008-09 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12 2012-13 2013-14 2014-15 2015-16

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Aboriginal Affairs and

Développement du Nord Canada Northern Development Canada

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Evaluating EPFA

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EPFA has shown some good early results such as:

  • Closer tripartite relationships
  • Increased kinship care
  • Better awareness of the child welfare system in communities leading to more self-referrals

by families.

  • Development of capacity for prevention.
  • Promising prevention practices in some communities.
  • Agencies being more strategic in their approaches leading some to reduce numbers of

children in care or revising their types of care. Audits and Evaluations between 2008 and 2012 demonstrate a need for EPFA, but also a need to annually review the EPFA formula as constant provincial changes make it difficult to stay current and enable Agencies to provide a full range of child welfare services. Provinces have been shifting their caseloads towards greater emphasis on intake and investigation which may not have been part of original EFPA discussions and are now creating

pressures on Agencies.

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Over-Representation of Aboriginal Children

  • in Child Welfare
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8,582 C1C in the

  • 30-40,000 Aboriginal children are in care, nationally.

Province 5,664 CIC are Aboriginal (66%)

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  • 1,927CICareFNs
  • Approximately 9,000 are First Nations ordinarily resident
  • n-reserve (22% of
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total IO

  • n reserve served by service delivery agencies funded

25,421 on-reserve population

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through FNCFS.

(CIC7.58%of Pop)

BC

  • Not just an FNCFS program issue.

8,000 CIC in the

Province

4,000 CIC are Aboriginal (50%)

  • Provinces/Yukon Territory also struggling with this.

700 CIC are FNs

  • n-reserve (8.8%
  • f total CIC)

18,646 on-reserve population (CIC

3.75% of Pop)

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Challenges to Program Reform

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  • Socicecononncsituatio:n
  • Housing
  • Health
  • Justice
  • SubstanceAbuse——
  • Lack of Capacity and

Integrated Services

Federal Reality

  • Lack of 1egisttfve

base

  • Price taker

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  • Reform needs to

consider new staffing

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needs and full range

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Drivers and Impacts to FNCFS

Types of Care (more high cost children and placement)

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OTHER IMPACTING VARIABLES

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inionization of Foster Homes

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  • ‘rivatization
  • f care

Income Assistance Reform

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CIC increasing)

tProvincial

Rate and Salary increases

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Medical Costs (NIHB Reform)

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Other Social Programs (Adult Care, Day Care) INCREASED COSTS TO_FNCFS PROGRAM

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TheWayFoardonFNCFS

Where we’ are

  • Taking children into care and

some work with families in the home.

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Where we need to go

Taking children in care for critical cases but more work with the families in the home.

  • Fund agencies and provinces for

basic protection services and some prevention with families in the home.

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  • Either fund full range of services

provided by provinces (differs among jurisdictions) OR transfer child welfare

  • n reserve to the Provincial/Territorial

governments.

  • Initial investments in EPFA in 6

jurisdictions but not necessarily addressing all aspects of child welfare.

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EPFA in all jurisdictions fully costed at $108.13M, supporting all aspects of child welfare including intake, early intervention and allowing for developmental phase.

  • Developing some capacity in

prevention in communities.

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All communities have capacity in

prevention.

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Long Term

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Keep within

AANDC

increase

EPFA i n v e s t m e n t s to more closely match t h e

full

continuum

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c h i l d

welfare services p r

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r e s e r v e ,

with

gradual transfer

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FNCFS program to Provinces/Territories.

  • AANDC gets
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t h e business of

Child Welfare on-reserve and

transfers

it back

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  • provincial/territorial jurisdiction

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Transfer to ProvlTerr

Recognizing greater program e f f i c i e n c y

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economies

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scale due

to more expansive provincial infrastructure/ expertise

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Expanded

EPFA

  • Continue

to implementEPFA in remaining regions

  • increase EPFA investments to more

closely match

t h e

full continuum of child welfare services provided off

reserve, with gradual t r a n s f e r

  • f

FNCFS program to

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Aboriginal Affaws and Northern Development Canada

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— ImDlement EPFA in remaining

jurisdictions ($32M annually)

  • Remaining Jurisdictions

British Columbia

$21 M

V’ukon

$2M

Ontario

$5M___________

New Brunswick

$2 M

NewfoundlandiLabrador $ 2 M Maintenance $ 4 M Strength and Accountability $ 2 M OTAL $38M

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OPTION I

  • lmplement EPFA in remaining regions as per

2007 federal authoril:ies.

  • Recognizes that the FNCFS program cannot

address all root causes of the over- representation of children in care (poverty, substance abuse, housing)

  • 5-year EPFA funding envelope may not be addressing

provincial cost drivers or funding pressures related to

the operational efficiencies of Agencies.

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OPTION 2 - Fully Expanded EPFA

  • Adjust the EPFA costing model with increased investments to address cost drivers.

lmplement this model in remaining jurisdictions and top-up existing EPFA regions.

Fully Expanded EPFA*

Remaining Jurisdictions

$65.03 M Top-up to Existing EPFA Jurisdictions $43.10 M

TOTAL

  • $108.13M

These are preliminary estimates. In addition to the amounts above ,a 3% escalator will be required year over year. Increases will be requested incrementally over a five year period and ongoing.

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  • Ensure agencies are able to meet changing
  • Option 2 is more costly than Status Quo EPFA

provincial standards and salary rates while implementation

  • maintaining a high level of prevention programming

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(2012 EPFA Evaluation of NS/SK recommendation)

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  • ‘Ensures funding remains reasonably comparable

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with provinces and territories and makes the full

  • transfer to P/Ts more attractive.
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OPTION 3—Transfer to Provinces! Territory

Transfer Child Welfare to ProvinceslTerritories as is.

OR

  • Adjust the EPFA costing model with increased investments to

address cost drivers, before transferring child welfare to

ProvinceslTerritories.

  • Fully funded
  • comparability issue would be resolved
  • Provinces and Territories have legislative jurisdiction over child

welfare both on and off reserve Provinces and Territories have expertise in child welfare Better oversight/compliance of child and family services on reserve if P/Ts are given the full range of responsibilities, including the responsibility for funding ‘Support of all First Nations and P/Ts uncertain Potential for dramatic increases in costs ‘Involves complimentary programs therefore

a big task

‘Implications beyond AANDC in terms of costing

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Annex A: Chart of Children-In-Care

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Number of Children in Care 2001/02 -

2010/li

8,846 8,917 9,253 8,776 8,225

g,094

8,788.

8 5:32

8,682 8,262

2001/02 2002/03 200:3/04 2004/05 2005/06 2006/07 2007/08 2008/09 2009/10 2010/11

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