Prevention Service
To support families and teach ways of healthy living, families will be participating in healthy activities and events to enhance cultural awareness of families of Kinonjeoshtegon. To enable all families regardless of economic status, health issues, large families and families with babies to participate and attend.
Prevention Service events and activities. Prevention services will accommodate and support the attendance of community elders, families will build relationships with community elders that they can utilize in daily life for guidance and support.
Activities and events could include: family-oriented workshops, positive parenting programs, positive community engagement and life skills programs.
Protection Family Service
Kinonje Abinoonjiiag Niigan Inc. maintains as primary its legally mandated responsibility to ensure the safety and protection of children throughout its work with families in the community where intervention to prevent children from coming into care has not been successful.
It is necessary that a range of resources be available to provide care, nurturing and supervision to ensure the health growth and development of the child. These resources may be for emergency, short-term or long-term placements. Placement resources include foster homes, group homes and institutions. Additional placement resources may include protection programs, professional parents, alternative parenting and extended family placement.
Goals are: Ensure safety of the child, ensure child in agency care receive adequate care and supervision to meet their needs, provide resources and services to enable children to deal with issues in a constructive way and where possible - return home.
After Hours Service
After Hours services respond to all child welfare emergencies outside of normal business hours, weeknights, weekends and holidays. All calls are assessed to determine if services are required, emergencies receive appropriate services response.
Further investigation, assessment and response are referred to daytime programs for follow up. The Mandate of the services is to ensure the safety of children in the short term, until the assigned worker or a new worker is assigned to the case.
The service viewpoint is to make every effort to keep families together. When this is not possible, as evidenced by the risk factor essential in the referral, the agency will seek out family, friends, or community as a resource to avoid apprehension.