Our Impact: Efficiency and Effectiveness

At 18, with limited support, they struggle with significant unintended consequences.

Each year, tens of thousands of children are taken into the child welfare system. Their origins vary from unaccompanied minors who have migrated and landed with nowhere to go and no one to rely on, indigenous children, or those who were removed from abusive, neglectful homes. Once in the child welfare system, there are challenges with foster care, mental health, and preparing for aging out of the system.

Until the Last Child develops projects designed to meet these challenges and improve the health, safety, wellbeing, and access to families for a sense of belonging.

All of our UTLC Pilot Projects have been delivered on time, on target and on budget.

• The Bringing Families Together Pilot cost approximately $1.8 Million over two years.
• The 76% of children in the pilot that achieved permanency resulted in $25.1 Million savings to government.
• Based on Canadian and U.S. estimates, the estimated avoided costs are in the range of $250,000 - $460,000 per youth aging out of care each year

2017 RBC Innovating for Youth Award

Until The Last Child was the recipient of the 2017 RBC Finance Award: Innovating for Youth. The award is presented to leaders who are playing a pivotal role in catalyzing the Canadian social finance marketplace. The Innovating for Youth award celebrates the efforts that UTLC is making to mobilize private capital for public good and our contribution in addressing key gaps and challenges faced by youth in Canada.