For Emergency Child Care Services

• During hours of 8:00-4:00 Call 416-633-6200 Ext 4312
• All other hours- Call ASU Duty officer at 416-357-5455

This service offers financial assistance by paying for the first 72 hours of a family’s emergency child care. Referrals can come from helping professionals from the TMFRC or self-referral from the family themselves.

The TMFRC provides emergency child care via partnering with an emergency care service called CARE- ON-CALL. This service will provide a caregiver to meet your child’s needs, including special needs children, who will come into your home and provide care until needed up to 72 hours. The Child & Youth Program supervisor will be the contact person who will provide the family with the number to call in case of an emergency or she will call and make arrangements for you. 

Definition of “Emergency”
When there is no time to implement a “personal” child care plan (the time frame would usually be 24-72 hours). Under exceptional circumstances it could be up to 7 days.

The following are the five circumstances considered an emergency: (DMFS Guidelines)

• When the CF member is employed/deployed away from home and the spouse/caregiver is unable to provide immediate care for the child/children due to illness or any other family emergency.
• When the CF member is required to report for duty of any type wherein the duty could not have been reasonably forecast and less than seven days notice to report for duty is given. This presumes that the spouse /usual caregiver cannot readily accommodate this unexpected CF duty.
• When both parents and guardians are CF members and when one parent has already been deployed and the other is required with less than seven days notice to be away from home due to operational demands or extended family emergency.
• When a single parent CF member is unable to access the regular child care provider in an emergency situation.
• When there is illness of a child that would prevent a parent from accessing their usual arrangement for care at a time when the CF member’s presence at work is critical to the military operation.

Emergency Respite Care Services
This service provides timely, affordable and regulated child care when it has been determined that a period of respite is absolutely essential for the family’s continued health and well-being (ie critical to the mental health of the child or caregiver) When other circumstances are not covered in the above and respite child care is deemed necessary, C/MFRC can request authorization.

Funding

• Funding of emergency respite child care is available for up to 72 hours that need not be continuous.
• In exceptional circumstances, funding of an additional 96 hours is available on a sliding scale of subsidization based on total family income and the number of children requiring care. Your C/MFRC can provide further details.
• Families in need of ongoing respite child care (ie long term physical and/or mental disability) are required to develop a plan.

Emergency Child Care Services This service supports the ability of CF members to be available for duty if their child care plan fails. ECS also provides a resource to parents who require short and longer-term care by maintaining a list of regulated and /or approved local child care providers.

Eligibility
C/MFRCs are authorized to fund up to 72 continuous hours of emergency child care under the following circumstances:

• when a CF member is away on duty and the spouse/caregiver is unavailable due to illness.
• when a CF member is away on duty and the spouse/caregiver is unavailable due to a family emergency.
• when a CF member is required to report for duty on short notice and the spouse/caregiver is unavailable.
• when a single parent or both parents are CF members and CF duty requirements are such that the regular child care provider is unavailable.
• when a child is ill and the parent is unable to access their usual child care arrangement at a time when the CF member’s presence at work is critical to the military operation.
• when other circumstances not covered in the above are present and emergency child care is deemed necessary, C/MFRCs can request authorization.