Ontario Multifaith Council Fact sheet

• a not-for-profit charitable body representing Ontario’s many Faith Groups
• incorporated 1998
• funded both privately, and as a transfer payment agency of the Province of Ontario
• supports the link between institutions and local faith communities
• oversees the activities of hundreds of volunteers, province wide
• supports the work of thousands of S&R Care volunteers around the province
• provides screening for S&R Care practitioners
• provides spiritual and religious care program assessments to government facilities, transfer payment agencies, or by request from private institutions
• develops and encourages standards, policies and procedures for best practice
• encourages, reviews and oversees research projects among and between S&R Care providers, faith communities and government
• provides education opportunities for spiritual and religious care workers
• provides and develops information resources for S&R Caregivers
• advises Government on faith requirements, rites, and customs
• an advocate for individual and collective religious rights
• an advocate for those who require religious services and spiritual care
• an advocate for those who provide religious services and spiritual care
• provides a forum for cooperative activities among S&R Cargivers
• host to Ontario chaplains and faith leaders and to a number of joint Regional Multifaith Committees and chaplains meetings