Program directory · Department of Indigenous Services
Safety and Prevention Services
- Department
- Department of Indigenous Services
- Program code
- BYP07 (INDSC)
- Core responsibility
- Indigenous Well-Being and Self-Determination
- In Departmental Plans
- 2023-24 – 2026-27 · New since an earlier plan
What it does
The Safety and Prevention Services Program consists of the Family Violence Prevention Program.
Family Violence Prevention Program
The Government of Canada works in partnership with provincial and territorial governments, Indigenous Peoples, and other stakeholders to address the issue of family violence. The Family Violence Prevention Program provides funding to support access to emergency shelter services, second stage housing, and family violence prevention activities for Indigenous women, children, families, and 2SLGBTQI+ people across Canada, including in the North and in Urban centres.
The program has two components: Core operational funding for a network of emergency shelters and second-stage housing serving Indigenous communities; and proposal-based community-driven prevention projects such as public awareness campaigns, training, workshops, and counselling to raise awareness on the issue of family violence. The Family Violence Prevention Program supported over 300 community-driven violence prevention projects across Canada.
The Program also 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 Indigenous 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 2023-24. 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).
| Program | Relation | Years with data | Actual spending over those years |
|---|---|---|---|
| Safety and Prevention Services | This program | 2023-24 – 2028-29 | $357M |
No earlier or later program in the same department has a similar name.
Significant changes in scope and budget
Detected from the data: renames between plans, programs it appears to replace, merge with or split into (matched by name), year-over-year changes in spending of at least 25% and $5M, or in employees of at least 20% and 25 FTEs, linked budget measures, and results indicators added or dropped.
| Year | What changed | Source |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | Indicators added: Percentage of Family Violence Prevention-related activities directed to community priorities/needs | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
| 2025-26 | Indicators dropped: Percentages of First Nation communities with family violence prevention programming | Departmental Results Framework (GC InfoBase) |
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.
Historical: targets against results
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | ≥ 55% | 2024 | 47% 303 projects of the 384 funded by the Family Violence Prevention Program directly supported Indigenous communities on-reserve. This is a 7% increase from 2022-23. It is expected that the Program will continue to progress towards achieving its goal of 55% with dedicated funding annually. | Not met |
Current: the 2026-27 plan's targets
Bars: result reported. Dashed line: target.
| Report year | Target | Due | Result | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-27 | ≥ 100% | 2027 | — | Planned |
Future goals: targets due after 2026-27
No targets with a later due date.
Spending and employees: planned against actual
Spending
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | $160M | $166M |
| 2024-25 | $181M | $191M |
| 2025-26 | $206M | — |
| 2026-27 | $156M | — |
| 2027-28 | $156M* | — |
| 2028-29 | $157M* | — |
Employees (FTEs)
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| Fiscal year | Planned | Actual |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 | 18 | 32 |
| 2024-25 | 31 | 34 |
| 2025-26 | 32 | — |
| 2026-27 | 19 | — |
| 2027-28 | 19* | — |
| 2028-29 | 19* | — |
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
| Plan | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-24 plan | $159,675,718 | $174,771,612 | $188,331,352 | |||
| 2024-25 plan | $180,667,599 | $194,227,339 | $157,017,557 | |||
| 2025-26 plan | $205,840,302 | $155,996,991 | $156,413,502 | |||
| 2026-27 plan | $156,013,374 | $156,429,885 | $156,854,319 | |||
| Actual | $166,319,385 | $190,816,558 |
Actual spending is from Departmental Results Reports and the Public Accounts, as published in GC InfoBase. FTEs are full-time equivalents.
