Fonds consists of the records of the department created through the performance of the following mandated activities:;administration and provision of social allowance, income support and other public welfare programs,;administration of provincial and federal pension programs,;provision of child welfare services,;licensing and financial support of day care facilities,;supervision of foster care homes,;supervision and financial support of homes for the aged,;provision of vocational rehabilitation and other services for the handicapped,;planning and development of legislation related to child welfare and other programs,;direction and support of services to the disabled provided by outside and other governmental agencies,;investigation of fraudulent welfare claims,;Metis settlement and development of Metis colonies,;the responsibilities of the Minister and department under the <em>Juvenile Delinquents Act</em>,;certification of health care disciplines professionals (from the former Department of Social Services and Community Health),;operation of single men's hostels,;services to families, including maintenance and mediation,;appeal panels for various services programs,;administration of adoptions,;acting as liaison between the provincial government and organizations representing aboriginal Albertans,;public awareness campaigns,;program planning and development,;program delivery through regional offices, and;financial management for the department. The fonds consists of administrative and operational records of various branches, offices and facilities of the department. The fonds contains records of the Minister, Deputy Minister, various Assistant Deputy Ministers, various regional offices, Michener Centre, Baker Centre for the Handicapped, the Woodside Home for Unwed Mothers, Eric Cormack Centre, Saami's Children's Centre, Rosehaven Home for the Aged, various youth assessment and youth development centres, Hilltop House, the Edmonton and Calgary Single Men's Hostels, Sifton Children's Centre, and Gunn Centre. The fonds contains a wide variety of types of case files, correspondence, minutes, agendas and reports of various branch, departmental, and interdepartmental committees and appeal boards, policy and procedures documents, reports and statistics, audit records, applications and licenses, nominal rolls and day books from various facilities, certificates, registration cards, financial records and budget submissions, and accounts ledgers from various programs. The records have been arranged into the following series. Aboriginal issues administrative and operational records;Adoption registration operational records;Appeals panels administrative and general operational records;Appeals panels decision case files;Assured Income for the Severely Handicapped program operational records;Baker Centre administrative and operational records;Central region child welfare administrative records;Central region social care facilities administrative and operational records;Child protection administrative and operational records;Child welfare administrative and operational records;Child welfare programs administrative records;Child welfare juvenile delinquency case files;Child welfare placement administrative and operational records;Child welfare recruitment program media materials;Child welfare and wardship registry cards;Child welfare financial records;Child welfare services to aboriginal Albertans administrative records;Child welfare services to aboriginal Albertans financial records;Children in care nominal rolls;Client services administrative records;Data processing administrative records;Day care programs administrative and operational records;Day care licensing records;Department and program financial records;Department executive records;Department general administrative records;Director, Central region records;Director, Edmonton region records;Director, High Prairie region records;Director, South region records;District offices general ledgers;Edmonton district administrative records;Education programs for the handicapped administrative records;Employment Opportunity Fund case files;Employment skills program administrative and operational records;Eric Cormack Centre administrative and operational records;Eric Cormack Centre daily record books;Family maintenance case files;Family relations programs administrative and operational records;Family relations, mediation and maintenance case files;Family violence prevention programs operational records;Federal disability pensions case files;Federal-19provincial liaison records;Federal-19provincial social security review records;Finance adminstrative records;Fraud investigation case files;Group homes records;Gunn Centre operational records;High Level Youth Assessment Centre operational records;High Prairie Youth Assessment Centre operational records;Hilltop House administrative records;Hilltop House client case files;Hinton district administrative records;Income support programs administrative and operational records;Income support programs client case files;Innisfail district administrative and operational records;Legislative planning administrative and operational records;Lethbridge daily record books and child welfare statistics;Mental health information system operational records;Metis development programs operational records;Metis trust accounts records;Michener Centre administrative records;Michener Centre client case files;Michener Centre daily record books;Michener Centre general operational records;Ministerial orders;Northeast region administrative and operational records;Northwest region administrative records;Open Assessment Financial Subsidy program applications;Parents resources programs administrative and operational records;Personnel operational records;Program planning administrative records;Family council administrative and operational records;Program policy development administrative and operational records;Program policy development executive records;Program services administrative and operational records;Public relations and communications records;Red Deer district administrative and operational records;Regional service delivery executive records;Rehabilitation programs administrative and operational records;Research committee records and reports;Resource management executive records;Rosehaven Home for the Aged patient records;Rubella questionnaires;Saami's Children's Centre daily record books;Saami's Children's Centre general operational records;Sample certificate designs;Seniors services programs administrative and operational records;Service delivery executive records;Services to the disabled administrative and operational records;Sifton Children's Centre administrative and operational records;Single men's hostels registration records;Slave Lake region administrative and operational records;Social allowance programs administrative;Social allowance programs general operational records;Social allowance, maintenance and recovery case files;Social services agency grant records;Vocational rehabilitation committee records;Vocational rehabilitation programs operational records;Vocational rehabilitation service providers records;Wainwright district administrative records;Wetaskiwin district administrative records;Woodside Home patient case files;Yellowhead Youth Centre administrative and general operational records;Yellowhead Youth Centre daily record books;Youth assessment centres case files;Youth development centre administrative records
Alberta. Ministry of Family and Social Services