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Applied Behaviour Analysis (ABA)-based Services and Supports

Applied-Behaviour Analysis Services and Supports: These services will help children and youth with an autism spectrum disorder become more independent, develop communication, social and daily living skills and manage better in school.

Assistance for Children with Severe Disabilities

This program helps parents with some of the extra costs of caring for a child who has a severe disability to help the child live as normal a life as possible at home and in the community.

Additional Information

• To qualify for this program, financial and medical criteria must be met.
  
• Child must be under 18 years of age and live at home with a parent or legal guardian.
  
• The child must have a severe disability that results in a functional loss and extraordinary costs are incurred directly as a result of the disability.

Autism Intervention Program

This program provides Intensive Behavioural Intervention (IBI) for children/youth that have a diagnosis towards the severe end of the autism spectrum. Families are offered support services while waiting for IBI and planning and supports are available when their child/youth prepares to leave the program.

Birth Certificates

If a birth has been registered in Ontario, you can apply for this certificate online quickly, simply and securely.

Child Care Bursary (CCB)

This non-repayable bursary assists students who have child-care costs for three or more children.

Additional Information

Children's Activity Tax Credit

If you have a child enrolled in activities, such as painting classes, soccer, hockey or music lessons, you can claim up to $500 in eligible expenses and get up to $50 back for each child under 16 for 2010. You can receive up to $100 back for a child with a disability who is under 18. These amounts will be adjusted for inflation each subsequent year.

Children's Rehabilitation Services

This program provides physiotherapy, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy for children who have physical disabilities or communication disorders.

Developmental Disabilities

This program provides early intervention services to children who have a developmental disability or who are at risk of developmental delay.

Healthy Babies, Healthy Children Program

This program provides services for families to promote healthy child development and help their children achieve their full potential.

Healthy Smiles Ontario

Healthy Smiles Ontario is a program for kids 17 and under who do not have access to any form of dental coverage. If eligible, your kids will get regular dental services at no cost to you.

How to Apply for a Birth, Marriage or Death Certificate

This website provides information on how to apply for a birth, marriage or death certficate in Ontario.

Infant Hearing Program

This program provides parents of deaf or hard of hearing infants with the services their children need in order to develop communication and language skills.

Integrated Services for Northern Children

This program provides health, mental health and education services to children and youth living in rural and remote areas across northern Ontario.

Mental Health Services

Child and youth mental health services and supports provide a range of planned, multidisciplinary interventions for children, youth and their families.

Ontario Child Benefit

The Ontario Child Benefit is financial support for low-income families to help provide for their children.

Ontario Child Care Supplement for Working Families

This supplement awards benefits to eligible low- and moderate- income families with dependent children under age seven.

To be eligible, you must also be receiving

• Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB)

Ontario Early Years Centres

These centres are a network of early learning and parenting centres that provide early years programs and services accessible to all children, parents and caregivers.

Ontario's Blind - Low Vision Early Intervention Program

This program is designed to give children who are born blind or with low vision the best possible start in life.

Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities

The Aboriginal Head Start in Urban and Northern Communities Program is a community-based children's program delivered by the Public Health Agency of Canada. It focuses on early childhood development for First Nations, Inuit and Métis children and their families living off-reserve.

Aboriginal Head Start On Reserve

The Aboriginal Head Start On Reserve Program funds activities that support early intervention strategies to address the learning and developmental needs of young children living in First Nations communities. The goal is to support early child development strategies that are designed and controlled by communities.

Cadet Program

The Cadet Program gives youth the opportunity to develop leadership skills, increase their physical fitness and make new friends while enjoying a variety of fun and challenging activities.

Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB)

This benefit is a tax-free monthly payment made to eligible families with children under 18. It may include the National Child Benefit Supplement (NCBS), a benefit for low-income families with children, and/or the Child Disability Benefit (CDB), a benefit for families caring for children with severe and prolonged disabilities.

Canada Education Savings Grant (CESG)

The Canada Education Savings Grant is a grant from the Government of Canada to help you start saving early for your child's education after high school.

Canada Learning Bond

The Canada Learning Bond provides a grant to families whose children are born in 2004 or later and who receive the National Child Benefit Supplement.

To be eligible, you must also be receiving

• Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB)

Child Disability Benefit (CDB)

This program provides a non-taxable supplement to low- and moderate-income families to help them with the costs of raising children under 18 who have a severe and prolonged mental or physical impairment.

To be eligible, you must also be receiving

• Canada Child Tax Benefit (CCTB)

Child Rearing Drop-Out Provision (CRDP)

This program allows periods of low or zero Canada Pension Plan (CPP) contribution to be excluded from the calculation of CPP benefits when these periods are spent caring for a child under the age of seven.

Children's Fitness Tax Credit

This website provides information on the Children's Fitness Tax Credit.

Elementary/Secondary Education Program

This program provides access for First Nations students to elementary or secondary schools, or services.

Employment Insurance Family Supplement

The Family Supplement is a feature of Employment Insurance (EI) that provides additional benefits to low-income families with children.

Employment Insurance Maternity and Parental Benefits

Employment Insurance (EI) provides Maternity and Parental Benefits to individuals who are pregnant, have recently given birth, are adopting a child, or are caring for a newborn.

Junior Canadian Rangers Program

The Junior Canadian Rangers Program offers a variety of skill-developing activities that promote traditional cultures and lifestyles to youth living in remote and isolated communities.

Nobody's Perfect

This program provides parenting education and support for parents of children from birth to age five.

Universal Child Care Benefit

The Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) provides financial assistance to all Canadian families with young children, regardless of where they live, whatever their family circumstances or preferences. Parents receive $100 a month for each child under six.