Toward a community benefit model of procurement in community services /

Recognizing a need for new programs and services to respond to the issue of violence, the province supported the development of community-based programming and sought to build capacity in the sector. [...] The stated aim of the project was to “allocate the budget in a manner that strives to meet the needs of children, youth and families across the South Island, anything.” as well as ensuring dedicated Aboriginal services.” The process was also driven by concerns that the MCFD was overspending the regional budget allocation in the South Island at the expense of other geographic regions. [...] The move to a competitive contracting process undermined much of this community infrastructure, as organizations were forced to compete in a bidding process for short term funding, resulting in the complete loss of funding to some long-standing and well- respected programs and the closure of smaller agencies unable to meet the complex demands of the RFP. [...] While the regional tables have been subject to a number of reforms that have curtailed the degree of citizen and community involvement in service planning and delivery, they persist to this day and have been granted responsibilities for a broader range of health and social services, playing an important role in the institutionalizing of community development and prevention programs in the services [...] The program provides support to a wide range of services and programs, including services to assist communities to identify their social needs and develop responses, community plan- ning and advocacy services, services to improve the quality of life in a community, services to promote, encourage and support volunteer work in the community, and services to encourage the social development of childr