Grants and Contributions

Project aims to support separated or divorced fathers, father figures, and male caregivers in fostering healthy parental relationships with their children and co-parents. Over a three-year term, a program facilitator will coordinate and deliver the program, which includes outreach to clients and community partners, regular group facilitation, and participant evaluations and follow-ups. The program will be provided free of charge, prioritizing historically marginalized groups, and will be supported by the New Start team as part of its commitment to accessible, community-based services.

Supervised Parenting Time - This project will modify and/or expand existing supervised parenting time services in Manitoba to address a growing backlog. Funding will increase service capacity to vulnerable children and their families, expand existing services, implement innovative solutions and improve access to court-ordered supervised visits across the province, including northern Manitoba where access to supervised parenting time services is currently not available.

This project aims to support access to family justice and the justice system by reducing language barriers and identifying obstacles for diverse and underserved populations, creating more opportunities to recalculate child support through alternatives to court, streamlining and improving family law civil procedure, and providing specialized programming.

This project will serve the needs of diverse and underserved families experiencing separation and divorce by creating a national family Self-Represented Litigants (SRLs) online curriculum that will include information related to the recent changes in the Divorce Act. The project would include the creation of 90-minute lessons related to family court legal material "Primers" that will be delivered to family SRLs via live webinars with a panel of experts who will provide legal information, explanations of procedures, and answers to participant questions.

Supervised Parenting Time - This project will allow for the expansion of Prince Edward Island's existing Supervised Parenting Time services and Exchange Program to address increasing service requests, particularly in rural areas. The availability of safe parenting time and exchange space and programming ensures that the safety and well-being of vulnerable children are protected. It also aims to empower families to de-escalate conflict and function better when they stop using the services.

This initiative proposes the creation of a new pilot service for the calculation of a child support which aims to reduce cost and stress to assist parents by determining the amount of child support administratively.

Five year agreement between Canada and the province of Manitoba for the development and maintenance of family justice services to facilitate access to the family justice system for families experiencing separation and divorce.

The contribution to the province will support the costs associated with the implementation of the Divorce Act official languages provision.

Supervised Parenting Time - This project will modify and/or expand existing supervised parenting time services in Ontario to address a growing backlog. It will improve the safety of vulnerable children and family members throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and the recovery phase. Funding will increase service capacity to vulnerable children and their families, expand existing services, implement innovative solutions and improve access to court-ordered supervised visits across the province.

Supervised Parenting Time - This project will allow for the expansion of Prince Edward Island's existing Supervised Parenting Time services and Exchange Program to address increasing service requests, particularly in rural areas. The availability of safe parenting time and exchange space and programming ensures that the safety and well-being of vulnerable children are protected. It also aims to empower families to de-escalate conflict and function better when they stop using the services.