Revised: July 11, 2025
Originally published: July 14, 2020

Information collected

To provide you and/or your child or youth with Ontario Autism Program services and supports, it is necessary for the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services to collect your and your child or youth’s personal information and your child or youth’s personal health information. This information may be provided by you or obtained from your Ontario Autism Program service provider and/or AccessOAP. The personal information that will be collected by the ministry includes, but is not limited to, your and/or your child or youth’s name, phone number, address and your child or youth’s birth date.

The ministry will use the personal information you have provided to the ministry and the personal health information provided to the ministry by your Ontario Autism Program service provider and/or AccessOAP to determine the amount of Ontario Autism Program interim one-time funding you will receive, to issue such funding, and to address any funding-related issues, including those that may arise as a result of reconciling the funding. The ministry will use your child or youth’s personal information to verify and confirm your child or youth’s personal health information on file and to maintain your child or youth’s original registration date.

The ministry may also use your and your child or youth’s personal information, including their personal health information for the purposes outlined in section 283 of Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017, S.O. 2017, Chapter 14, Sched. 1 ( CYFSA) which include:

  • planning, managing, delivering, evaluating or monitoring services that the ministry provides or funds under the CYFSA
  • conducting risk management and error management activities in respect of the services that the ministry provides or funds under the CYFSA, and monitoring and preventing fraud or any unauthorized receipt of services or benefits related to any of them
  • conducting activities to improve or maintain the quality of the services that the ministry provides or funds, in whole or in part
  • conducting research and analysis that relate to children and youth and their families, including longitudinal studies, by or on behalf of the ministry that relate to, a service, the transition of children and youth and their families between and out of services, including the resulting outcomes, or programs that support the learning, development, health and well-being of children and youth and their families, including programs provided or funded in whole or in part by the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services or by any other ministry of the Government of Ontario

Legal notice of collection of personal information and personal health information for interim one-time funding under the Ontario Autism Program

All personal information provided in this application is being provided directly to the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services and will be used for the purposes outlined in section 283 of the Child, Youth and Family Services Act, 2017, S.O. 2017, c. 14, Sched. 1 ( CYFSA). This includes administering Ontario Autism Program interim one-time funding such as determining and issuing the amount of eligible funding and addressing any funding-related issues, including those that may arise as a result of reconciling the funding. The collection of personal information by MCCSS within this application is authorized by subsections 38 (2) and 39 (1) (h) of the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act, R.S.O. 1990, c. F.31 (FIPPA) and section 283 of the CYFSA.

The ministry is also authorized to indirectly collect personal information, including personal health information, from AccessOAP and/or your Ontario Autism Program service provider by subsections 38 (2) and 39 (1) (h) of FIPPA and section 283 of CYFSA for the purpose of administering the Ontario Autism Program, including the planning, management and issuance of Ontario Autism Program interim one-time funding.

Contact information

If you have questions about the collection of personal information or personal health information as part of this application, you can contact:

Central Resource Team  
Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services
PO Box 193
Toronto, Ontario
M7A 1N3
Toll-free: 1-888-444-4530
OAP@ontario.ca

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