Child and Youth Planning Table of Hastings and Prince Edward counties - Recurring Complex Situations Scorecard

Recurring Complex Situations are situations where children, youth, and families face ongoing, serious challenges that don’t have easy solutions. These situations often involve multiple issues at the same time—like mental health needs, developmental disabilities, problems at school, family struggles, or a lack of access to services. These families often need help from several different agencies or programs, and their needs can keep coming back or getting more complicated over time.

The Recurring Complex Situations (RCS) Committee is a group where different community partners work together to help children, youth, and families who have many needs and challenges. These families often already get help from more than one service or organization.

The group is working to improve how these services work together, through something called Coordinated Service Planning (CSP). This helps families get better support, so they don’t feel like they have to figure everything out on their own. CSP is meant for families whose children or youth have special needs that are more complex and who need help from many different services at once.

Some families need even more help—like funding and case workers to manage all the services their child needs. These cases fall under a program called Complex Special Needs (CSN), which is supported by the Ministry of Children, Community and Social Services (MCCSS). The RCS Committee hopes that by working together better, they can make a real difference for these families too.