Community Action Support Program for Families – Component 3 – Support for Family Partners

• Completed financial assistance application form for Component 1.
• Completed accountability report form, if already funded.
• Financial report, activities report, and updated legal documents, if applicable for reporting.

Who is eligible?

• Non-profit organizations.
• Community organizations.
• Aid, mutual aid, or assistance organizations.
• Support organizations for a living environment.

Who is not eligible

• For-profit businesses.
• Organizations not legally constituted in Quebec.
• Organizations whose mission or activities do not match the program objectives.

Eligible expenses

• Operating costs related to carrying out the organization’s mission.
• Administrative costs linked to the organization’s operations, including office materials and supplies.
• Rental costs for premises.
• Salary costs and related employee benefits linked to the organization’s core operations.
• Staff training costs and travel and representation expenses, including transport, meals, and accommodation within Quebec, subject to the applicable rates in force.

Ineligible Costs and Activities

• Accumulated deficits.
• Expenses reimbursed by another government financial assistance program.
• Capital assets, including depreciation, debt financing, and repayment of loans already contracted or to be contracted.
• Acquisition of transport vehicles.
• Any expense not directly linked to the realization of the organization’s mission, including personal travel or personal use of the organization’s vehicle.

• Dynamic involvement and community concertation, including participation in consultation tables, committees, and working groups, the role and nature of those participations, expected outcomes, and referrals by other organizations.
• Response to community needs, including weekly opening hours, number of weeks open, client surveys, and the number of people attending activities.
• Democratic functioning, including general meetings and board meetings.

• Step 1: Review the program framework
  • Consult the normative framework to confirm admissibility.
  • Check the rules for the relevant component.
• Step 2: Prepare the application
  • Complete the prescribed financial assistance application form.
  • Gather the information needed to support the request.
• Step 3: Submit to the Ministry
  • Send the completed application to the Ministry of Families.

• For the first year covered by the financial assistance agreement, a new organization must submit a progress report six months after the agreement is signed by both parties or before 31 December of the current year.
• The progress report must include the number and nature of the activities carried out.
• The prescribed accountability form must be completed and approved by the chair of the board of directors.
• The Ministry may reduce the amount granted, suspend payments, or withhold payments if a condition of the program or agreement is not respected or if requested documents are not provided.

• Organizations funded under Components 1, 2, and 3 must submit accountability reporting to the Ministry of Families.
• The program is structured into four distinct components.
• The intake period for the 2025-2026 funding year is closed.