Provides funding to ensure that First Nations children in Canada can access necessary products, services, and supports they need, precisely when they need them.
Jordan's Principle offers:
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funding to ensure that First Nations children in Canada can access the products, services, and supports they need, when they need them
- funding that can assist with a wide range of health, social, and educational needs that First Nations children and youth may have
Under Jordan's Principle, individuals or families:
- can be informed about the help available, and how to access it
- receive assistance with coordinating access to products, services, and supports
- receive funding when needed to ensure products, services, and supports are accessed without delay
Some examples of initiatives funded under Jordan’s Principle include:
- health supports such as mobility aids, addiction services, assessments and screenings, transportation to appointments, long-term care for children with specialized needs, therapeutic services for individuals or groups, and much more
- social supports such as social workers, a personal support worker, specialized summer camps, respite care, specialized programs based on cultural beliefs and practices and much more
- educational supports such as school supplies, tutoring services, teaching assistants, specialized school transportation, psycho-educational assessments, assistive technologies and much more