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Who are we?

The Yellowknife Military Family Resource Centre (YKMFRC) is a volunteer based not for profit military community organization. Our purpose is to serve the over 100 Canadian Forces members and their families posted to Joint Task Force (North) Headquarters and its lodger units in Yellowknife. Information services are also offered to families of CF members posted to JTFN Detachment Yukon in Whitehorse and Detachment Nunavut in Iqaluit.

The Military Family Resource Centre is one of a network of MFRCs supporting Canadian Forces families across Canada and abroad.

Our Mission Statement

In partnership with Joint Task Force (North) and its families, within the framework established by the Military Family Services Program, the Yellowknife Military Family Resource Centre offers programs and services designed to enhance quality of life and strengthen the military community.

Our Goals

The goals of the YKMFRC are to:

• Coordinate community focused resources, facilitate individual and group initiatives, and develop services and programs which are responsive to community needs.
• Promote and create conditions that strengthen families, foster social and emotional well being and improve the quality of life for Canadian Forces families in Yellowknife.
• Encourage ownership of the MFRC through the involvement of the military community, especially spouses of military members, at all levels of the organization.
• Provide an identifiable focal point by way of an established Resource Centre for family support which is accessible and accountable to Yellowknife's military community.

Our Privacy Statement

Yellowknife MFRC Privacy Code

The MFRC Privacy Code refers to the treatment and handling of personal information within the MFRC organization.

The Privacy Code's 10 Principles in summary are as follows:

1. Accountability MFRCs are responsible for personal information under their control. The Executive Director ("ED") of the MFRC shall be responsible for the MFRC's compliance with the following principles.
2. Identifying Purposes The MFRC shall identify the purposes for which personal information is collected at or before the time the information is collected.
3. Consent The knowledge and consent of the individual are required for the collection, use or disclosure of personal information, except where inappropriate.
4. Limiting Collection The collection of personal information shall be limited to that which is necessary for the purposes identified by the MFRC. Information shall be collected by fair and lawful means.
5. Limiting Use, Disclosure and Retention Personal information shall not be used or disclosed for purposes other than those for which it was collected, except with the consent of the individual or as required by law. Personal information shall be retained only as long as necessary for the fulfillment of those purposes.
6. Accuracy Personal information shall be as accurate, complete and up-to-date as is necessary for the purpose for which it is to be used.
7. Safeguards Personal information shall be protected by security safeguards appropriate to the sensitivity of the information.
8. Openness MFRCs shall make readily available to individuals specific information about their policies and practices relating to the management of personal information.
9. Individual Access Upon request, a member/family or third party shall be informed of the existence, use and disclosure of his or her personal information, and shall be given access to that information. An individual shall be able to challenge the accuracy and completeness of the information and have it amended as appropriate.
10. Challenging Compliance A member/family or third party shall be able to address a challenge concerning compliance with the above principles to the ED of an MFRC who is accountable for the MFRC's compliance.