Issue 2: Imagining a Community-Led, Multi-Service Delivery Model for Ontario Child Welfare: A Framework for Collaboration Among African Canadian Community Partners
This article imagines a new model for child welfare in Ontario, specifically for African Canadian children, youth, and families. Throughout the article, we discuss both what needs to be changed and how those changes can be achieved, including the development and implementation of community-led organizational structures, programs, and services, and the restructuring of government-community relations and funding allocation, to enable African Canadian community-based agencies to deliver preventative, culturally relevant, family-centred supportive services to African Canadians. The article outlines the development of a community-led, multi-service delivery model for Ontario child welfare, and the potential challenges and opportunities for the delivery of such services to African Canadian children, youth, and families
