overview of our teams

what we do

Community teams:

  • Our Community Relations Team of Community Navigators is the first connection when someone requests support, or makes an inquiry about a child's or family's wellness or our programs and services. 
  • Our Community Caregivers Team seeks to keep children with their families and communities when parents or caregivers need time to focus on their own healing. This team actively works to shift away from the 'foster system' model – instead they support extended family and community members in caring for young people, ensuring community and cultural connections remain intact.
  • The Community Team provides liaisons, advocacy and communication support (internal and external) to our five member communities and our urban Indigenous community. 

Prevention services teams:

  • Our Youth Prevention Team provides individual supports to young people through culturally safe and strengths-based strategies. They plan individual and group activities to promote connection, support our youth by meeting them where they're at, and offer regular check-ins. Programs include Youth Outreach, Youth Transition, Youth Wellness, Nicola Canoe Pull 2024. 
  • The Family Prevention Team is responsible for supporting parents, couples and families in actualizing their holistic wellness goals, building capacity, and creating strategies to ensure families are healthy and whole. Programs include Family Circles, Relationship Wellness, Men's Group, Women's Group.

Other teams:

  • Our Culture & Language Team works to incorporate nłeʔkepmx and syilx language and cultural practices into our services and programs. Elders and Knowledge Keepers help guide the cultural teachings and language in our programs, and our Cultural Program Coordinators develop and facilitate these programs – all to help people retain and spread knowledge of traditional teachings and practices. 
  • Our Child and Youth Mental Health Team provides confidential therapeutic services to young people impacted by various measures of intergenerational trauma. They also offer outreach services for Indigenous family members experiencing difficult feelings or behaviours - this support is free, confidential and provided both on and off reserve.
  • Our Emergency Services Team assists in the prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery of emergencies – working in close collaboration with other SCFSS teams and community members.

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