Grants and Awards > Criteria and Conditions

The criteria and conditions apply to ALL activities funded by the Centre.

Overarching Criteria

The project / activity is:

• Highly relevant to child and youth mental health in the province of Ontario
• Consistent with the Centre's vision, mission and strategic directions
• Innovative and responsive to meeting the mental health needs of children and youth

The project / activity demonstrates:

• Potential impact for improving services and mental health outcomes of children and youth through the implementation and evaluation of evidence-informed practices
• Extensive level of partner involvement, particularly partnerships among community agencies
• Strategic leveraging opportunities: both financial and in-kind resources
• Potential for capacity-building and long-term sustainability
• Broad involvement of stakeholders in knowledge exchange activities

The Role of Centre Consultants

• All grant or award recipients actively communicate with the Centre’s consultants throughout various phases of the proposed project: project development, proposal writing, project implementation, evaluation and knowledge exchange.
  
• All grant or award recipients are required to participate in a wide range of grant-related opportunities for organizational learning and community capacity building to facilitate the implementation and evaluation of evidence-informed practices.

Overarching Conditions

• As the Ministry of Children and Youth Services (MCYS) funds the Centre, accepting Centre funding normally precludes receiving other MCYS funding for the same project / purpose.

• In accordance with the Centre’s new mandate with the MCYS, our grants and awards “will focus (their) efforts primarily on capacity-building among MCYS-funded service providers” in the child and youth mental health sector.

• All grant or award recipients must agree to have the outcomes of Centre-funded activities disseminated by our Knowledge Exchange Team.

• Any publication arising from a funded proposal must acknowledge the support of the Centre.

• The funding recipient must be an Ontario resident, and either be a Canadian citizen or a landed immigrant. If the recipient is an organization, the organization must be incorporated in Ontario and its mandate must demonstrate a clear Ontario focus.

• Partnerships with others outside of the province of Ontario are encouraged but leadership (including shared leadership) must be from within Ontario.

• The Centre has discontinued its research grants. The Centre will only continue to fund research projects through the Centre’s formal partnerships with existing peer-reviewed funding bodies.