Health & Family Services   
      
    Social Services Department 
    

Curve Lake Social Services Department administers the following programs:

1. The Ontario Works Program which is a provincial needs tested program that provides financial assistance for basic needs. The U.A.C. chiefs/councils, administrators and Indian Affairs are currently working on an alternative to Ontario Works model of social assistance called the Wiidookdoodwin Program. This program has a training and employment component as well as the basic financial assistance.

2. The needs testing and financial administration of the homemaker's program.

3. The National Child Benefit Supplement (NCB). This program is funded by INAC and reinvests the NCB that is deducted from the client's financial assistance and is used for food, clothing vouchers, donations to the food bank, hot breakfast and lunch programs, etc.