Ministry of Children and Youth Services
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Dr. Eric Hoskins |
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Overview
The Ministry of Children and Youth Services is working collaboratively with community partners, as well as the Ministries of Education, Health and Long-Term Care, Community and Social Services, Citizenship and Immigration, and Tourism, Culture and Sport to integrate a number of Ontario's children and youth programs and services. By bringing these programs under one roof, this government is making children a top priority to give them the best start in life, to prepare youth to become productive adults, and to make it easier for families to get the services they need at all stages of a child's development.
Major Responsibilities
The Ministry delivers and administers a wide range of services for children and youth including:
- Adoption
- Child protection
- Early childhood support including:
- Blindness and Low-vision
- Healthy Babies, Healthy Children
- Infant hearing
- Ontario Early Years Centres
- Pre-school speech and language
- Special needs including:
- Autism
- Children's Treatment Centres
- Children's mental health
- Physical and developmental disabilities
- Rehabilitation
- Respite
- Student Nutrition Program
- Ontario Child Benefit
- Ontario's Poverty Reduction Strategy
- Youth and the law
- Youth Opportunities Strategy
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