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Early Years Middle Years Youth

CYSN Family Support Services provides behaviour-based education, counselling and service coordination services

CYSN Family Support Services provides behaviour-based education, counselling and service coordination services.

Goals:
Reduce challenging behaviours while developing social, communication, life skills and peer relationships.

Eligibility

  • Children and youth 0-18 and their families and caregivers
  • With support needs

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Children and Youth with Support Needs team in Trail, Castlegar & Grand Forks.
Early Years Middle Years Youth

Family Behaviour Counselling Servicesprovides education, counselling and service coordination and may also offer limited behaviour consultation and training services

Family Behaviour Counselling Servicesprovides education, counselling and service coordination and may also offer limited behaviour consultation and training services.

Goals:
Reduce challenging behaviours while developing social, communication, life skills and peer relationships.

Eligibility

  • Children and youth 0-18 and their families and 
    caregivers
  • With support needs

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Children and Youth with Support Needs team in Trail, Castlegar & Grand Forks. 
Early Years Middle Years Youth

Keyworker Services for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) provides family and community-focused planning, consultation, support and educational services

Keyworker Services for Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) provides family and community-focused planning, consultation, support and educational services

Goals: Build the capacity of parents, caregivers and communities to meet the unique needs of their children, and to reduce risk factors associated with FASD

Eligibility

  • Caregivers of children and youth 0-18  
  • With FASD or a similar neurodevelopmental condition

Open Access

  • Voluntary 
  • Self- and community-referrals are welcome
  • Residing in the West Kootenays 
  • Call (250) 365-5800 
Early Years Middle Years Youth

Support to Family Care Network provides support, facilitation and training services for family care homes

Support to Family Care Network provides support, facilitation and training services for family care homes.

Goals:
Develop the capacity of caregivers to provide for the unique needs of the children in their homes, to build connections with other family care home providers and help navigate the system in which they work.

Eligibility

  • Family Care home providers

Open Access

  • The program facilitator seeks out family care home providers to participate in this program 
  • Living in the Kootenay and Boundary area 
  • Call – 250.365.5800  
Early Years Middle Years Youth

Permanency Support provides individual and family counselling, behaviour support, case management, service coordination, and follow-up support

Permanency Support provides individual and family counselling, behaviour support, case management, service coordination, and follow-up support.

Goals:
Strengthen caregiver capacity as children and youth transition from care to an adoptive or extended family home.

Eligibility

  • Families
  • Children and youth with permanency plans in place
  • Experiencing challenges with the caregiver-child/youth relationship

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Guardianship, Resources or Adoptions teams in Trail, Nelson & Castlegar 
Early Years Middle Years Youth

K-Wrap provides a comprehensive outreach service to minimize placement disruption by enhancing healthy relationship between caregivers and their children

K-Wrap provides a comprehensive outreach service to minimize placement disruption by enhancing healthy relationship between caregivers and their children Goals:
Increase the resiliency and capacity of caregivers to meet the child or youth’s needs, while decreasing factors that may undermine placement stability 
Eligibility
  • Families with children and youth 0-18 
  • In care, or in an out-of-care arrangement with the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD)
Restricted Access
  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Guardianship and/or Resource teams in Trail, Nelson & Castlegar 
Early Years Middle Years Youth

Supervised Access Services supports families to maintain contact in a healthy and safe environment

Supervised Access Services supports families to maintain contact in a healthy and safe environment.

Goals:
Reduce the risk of harm to children during mandated supervised visits and to help caregivers better understand the intentions behind their children’s behaviours.

Eligibility

  • Children and youth 0-18 and their families
  • Where supervised visits are required Arrow Lakes district

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Guardianship team in Nakusp 
Eary Years Middle Years Youth

Family Advancement Services provides short term, intensive, outcome-focused support

Family Advancement Services provides short term, intensive, outcome-focused support.

Goals:
Increase the harmony in the home by increasing parenting capacity and the parent-child relationship.

Eligibility

  • Families with children and youth 0-18
  • Experiencing significant parent-child/youth relationship difficulties

Open Access

  • Self- and community referrals are welcome
  • Living within the Arrow Lakes district 
  • Call – 250.365.5800 
Youth

Youth Support Services provides individualized transitional support services

Youth Support Services provides individualized transitional support services.

Goals:
Rebuild the connection between referred youth and their families and/or connect them to relevant community supports.

Eligibility

  • Youth 12-18
  • At risk of disconnection from family, social relationships and healthy community supports

Open Access

  • Self- and community referrals are welcome
  • Living within the Arrow Lakes district 
  • Call – 250.365.5800 
Youth

Youth Outreach Services provides individualized outreach support

Youth Outreach Services provides individualized outreach support.

Goals:
Improve social relationships and connection to healthy social community resources and activities 

Eligibility

  • Families with youth 12-18
  • At risk of disconnection from family, social relationships and healthy social community resources and activities

Open Access

  • Self- and community referrals are welcome
  • Must live in Trail, Castlegar and surrounding areas including the Slocan Valley 
  • Does not serve Nelson
  • Call – 250.365.5800 
Youth

The Short-term and Intensive Caregiver/Parent-Teen Mediation program provides support to learn healthy coping and communication strategies

The Short-term and Intensive Caregiver/Parent-Teen Mediation program provides support to learn healthy coping and communication strategies

Goals:

Enhance healthy family relationships and to maintain a supportive caregiver-youth connection 

Eligibility

  • Families with youth 12-18 
  • At risk of disconnection from family, social relationships and healthy social community resources and activities

Open Access

  • Self- and community referrals are welcome
  • Must live in Trail, Castlegar and surrounding areas including the Slocan Valley 
  • Does not serve Nelson
  • Call – 250.365.5800 
Youth

Independent Living Skills Acquisition provides a flexible outreach service

Independent Living Skills Acquisition provides a flexible outreach service.

Goals:
Support a seamless transition to adulthood in the areas of daily living, employment education and housing.

Eligibility

  • Families with youth 12-18 
  • Who need independent living transition support

Open Access

  • Self- and community-referrals are welcome
  • Must live in Trail, Castlegar and surrounding areas including the Slocan Valley
  • Does not serve Nelson
  • Call – 250.365.5800 
Youth

ISSP provides an intensified level of community supervision and support to monitor compliance with youth probation order conditions

ISSP provides an intensified level of community supervision and support to monitor compliance with youth probation order conditions.

Goals:
Reduce or eliminate future criminal activity by reducing risk and increasing protective factors in the lives of referred youth.

Eligibility

  • Youth 12-18
  • Charged with a serious criminal offence
  • On a youth bail or probation order

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children & Family Development (MCFD) Youth Probation team in Castlegar 
Adults

PSI provides individualized outreach support services for adults

PSI provides individualized outreach support services for adults.

Goals:
Increase quality of life in the areas of shared living, community inclusion, employment skills and life skills development.

Eligibility

  • Adults with significant limitations in adaptive functioning AND
  • A Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) diagnosis 
    and/or an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis 
  • OR an Intellectual Disability diagnosis 

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by Community Living British Columbia (CLBC) in Castlegar 
  • Call 250-365-8558 
Eary Years Middle Years Youth

CYSN Parent Support Program provides behaviour-based education, counselling and service coordination services for parents.

CYSN Parent Support Program provides behaviour-based education, counselling and service coordination services for parents.

Goals:
Reduce challenging behaviours while developing social, communication, life skills and peer relationships for parents.

Eligibility

  • Be family and/or caregivers of a children and youth 0-18 and with support needs

Restricted Access

  • Must be referred by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) Children and Youth with Support Needs team in the West Kootenays.