Ontario. Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services - Eastern Ontario Region

Provincial Ministry that funds community services and supports that help people recover from hardship and regain control of their lives

Social assistance programs - Ontario Works

• ​provides income and employment supports to people who are in temporary financial need
• ​Ontario Disability Support Program provides income and employment supports to people with disabilities

Programs for adults with a developmental disability -

• the Ministry funds services and supports for people who are 18 years of age and older, and have a developmental disability

Community-based supports

• help victims of domestic violence and their children
• ​people who are Deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or deaf-blind, and Indigenous peoples
  

Adoption information laws

• give adults and birth parents access to information from birth and adoption records, and at the same time, safeguard their right to privacy

Child and spousal support orders - through the Family Responsibility Office

• collects and distributes court-ordered child and spousal support payments

Services are delivered by community social service organizations, municipalities and First Nations

• Abuse / Assault - Child Abuse Services
• Abuse / Assault - Counselling for Abused People

• Frontenac County
• Hastings County
• Kingston
• Lanark County
• Leeds and Grenville United Counties
• Lennox and Addington County
• Prince Edward County