Program directory · Department of Indigenous Services

Family Violence Prevention

Department

Department of Indigenous Services

Program code

BXM13 (INDSC)

Core responsibility

Health and Social Services

In Departmental Plans

2019-20 – 2022-23 · Appeared and later dropped

What it does

The Government of Canada works in partnership with provincial and territorial governments, Indigenous people, and other stakeholders to help address the issue of family violence. The Family Violence Prevention Program provides funding to assist First Nations in providing access to family violence emergency shelter services and prevention activities for women, children, and families ordinarily resident on reserve. The program has two components: operational funding for emergency shelters; and, proposal-based prevention projects such as education campaigns, training, workshops, and counselling to raise awareness on the issue of family violence in First Nation communities. The program’s target populations are women, children, and families ordinarily resident on reserve, as well as Indigenous communities and organizations. The Department provides core operating funding to a network of family violence emergency shelters serving First Nations communities. The Program also supports proposal-based prevention services, reimburses Alberta and Yukon for services provided to women and children considered ordinarily resident on reserve but accessing emergency shelters off reserve, and provides funding to the National Aboriginal Circle Against Family Violence to build emergency shelter capacity.

Source: the department's Program Inventory, via GC InfoBase.

History and lineage

First appears in GC InfoBase's actual spending by program in 2019-20. The data does not record when a program was created; it may be older than its first appearance here, which is limited by the sources (program spending starts in 2010-11, Departmental Plans in 2018-19).

Significant changes in scope and budget

Success criteria

The program's indicators from its department's Departmental Results Framework: the target set in each year's plan, and the result reported the following year. Source: GC InfoBase.

Spending and employees: planned against actual

Spending

Employees (FTEs)

Planned spending, plan by plan

Each row is one year's Departmental Plan and its forecast for the next three fiscal years; read a column down to see how the forecast for one year changed. The last row is what was actually spent. Click an amount for its source. Biggest changes in federal spending plans

Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.