The following message was circulated by Lesley du Toit to her staff and partner
organizations. This clarifies that child and youth mental health remain in MCFD,
and also clarifies that the child-focused services that are delivered by CLBC will
now be held within MCFD Please note that adult mental health and addictions
services will be the responsibility of Health and mental health and addiction
services coordination now rests with the new Ministry of Housing and Social
development.
Dear colleagues:
As you may be aware, the Premier shuffled his Cabinet yesterday. The
shuffle did not impact either of our ministers; Minister Tom Christensen
and Minister Linda Reid will continue in their current roles as Minister
of
Children and Family Development and Minister of State for Child Care
respectively.
However, responsibility for Community Living British Columbia (CLBC) was
moved to the newly created Ministry of Housing and Social Development.
MCFD will assume responsibility for children's services currently
delivered by CLBC. This change will not take effect immediately and we
have already started working with CLBC to ensure that the best interests
of children are protected through the transition phase.
Some of the communication that was released yesterday with details about
the shuffle was unclear about the location of current ministry programs.
I just wanted to be clear that Early Childhood Development, Youth
Services and Child and Youth Mental Health all remain responsibilities
of this ministry and will not be moving. Other than the move of CLBC,
there were no other changes to the current ministry responsibilities.
Kind regards,
Lesley du Toit
June 2008
