Written submission guidelines
The Province wants to understand your vision for the future and your policy recommendations regarding a provincial CYSN service delivery model that meets the needs of children, youth and families. Gathering this information will help to ensure the path forward is informed by a range of perspectives and solutions.
We know that experts, partners, and families are exploring creative ways to best meet the needs of children, youth and their families. We want to hear these ideas, we want to share these ideas, and we want to continue meaningful dialogue around these ideas.
Any system of services is complex. Below, you will see a sampling of questions aimed at supporting your thoughts and considerations as you develop your vision for a CYSN service delivery model in B.C. Please consider submitting vision documents that capture the needs of diverse populations, geography and the workforce as well as fiscally sound and technically feasible ideas.
Please share with the Province by email at mcf.cysnengage@gov.bc.ca.
What will the Province do with recommendations/plans?
You can share your recommendations for new effective CYSN services with the Province by email (mcf.cysnengage@gov.bc.ca). Should you agree, the Province will then publish submissions that meet the submission guidelines below; allowing for all who are interested to review and reflect.
This sharing is intended to generate meaningful, transparent dialogue in the co-development process. This approach has been used successfully across the world, including by the governments of New Zealand and Canada.
The range of ideas reflected in the recommendations will then inform subsequent stages of collaboration. The Province will share recommendations and ideas to allow for continued dialogue in the co-development of a new effective system of provincial service delivery model.
Questions for consideration
What is your vision for an effective system of services for children and youth with support needs? What model or approach do you favour and why?
- What key principles/values does the model uphold (e.g. strengths based?)
- What is different/new/better?
- What are the core components of the approach?
How should the model/system operate?
- What services does the approach/model provide? (e.g. Therapies, mental health supports, family development?)
- How is the model/approach conceptualized for rural/remote communities?
- How does the approach support Indigenous-led service delivery? How does the model ensure culturally safe services for those who are not receiving services from their Nation?
How do we ensure quality & effectiveness?
- How do we ensure that the services families receive are evidence-based and effective/high quality?
- How will we know when/if it is meeting needs of children and families?
Who has access to services & how?
- How is the approach responsive to diversity within the support needs community?
- How does a child or youth’s needs and/or their diagnosis contribute to access and services?
- How do we ensure that underserved populations have access?
- How do we ensure families with barriers to access (e.g. English language learners) are supported?
Guidelines
Written submissions should be no longer than five pages in Word or PDF format.
We welcome all submissions but there are some guidelines. Submissions must not:
- Contain profanity or content that is defamatory, threatening, hateful, personally disparaging, harassing, indecent, vulgar, obscene, illegal, immoral or sexually explicit (partially masking profanity or other unacceptable language by substituting asterisks or other symbols into a word is not acceptable if the word remains recognizable)
- Appear to, or actually, infringe the copyright, trade-mark, right of privacy, right of publicity or any other intellectual property or other proprietary right of any third party
- Contain information about, or images (e.g., photographs, videos or illustrations) of, any person other than the person submitting the content
- Advertise any product, person or organization, or direct attention to another website for personal gain
- Provide links to, or information about, other sites that contain unlawful, objectionable or inappropriate content
- Make unproven or unsupported accusations against individuals, groups or organizations
- Appear to be spam-like messaging, a repeat posting or a template letter writing campaign; and
- Be off topic of the consultation
All submissions received will be posted on this site provided they meet the above criteria.