Our event page provides opportunities for families to connect and experience new activities in a stress-free, accepting space. Check out our special events below for more information and dates. This calendar is updated regularly, so please check back often. Please get in touch if you have an event to share with us.
SESSION INFO: « Back to all events
Families and caregivers of children ages 0-8 are invited to come together in a safe space for camaraderie, inspiration, problem solving, and support. Bring your thoughts, questions and wonderings to the conversation circle and share and encourage each other.
Our guest speakers’ presentation is primarily focused on Early Years, with a minor overview of services beyond early years, which ranges from birth to the child’s 9th birthday. We will be doing a brief overview of MNBC as a whole and what it means to be Métis. The services we’ll be talking about include our imagination library, the well-being program for children that require extra support needs, and childcare benefits.
OUR GUEST SPEAKERS ARE:
Nicky Bartel
Nicky Bartel is a Métis Childcare Navigator & Support Coordinator as well as an Early Childhood Educator. Nicky has worked in the field for almost 30 years, in a variety of setting and roles. She has three grown children and loves spending time in nature and is honored to be an ally for the Métis People. With gratitude she lives, works, and raised her family on the unceded territory of the L’htako Dene and home to the North Cariboo Metis Association.
Alisha Wilson
Alisha Wilson is the Family Connections Navigator for the Northern Region. This year will mark her 20th year working in childcare. Alisha loves to travel and spend any spare time she has outside being a hockey mom, outdoors camping, fishing, skiing.
Alyssa Crees
I am the Métis Wellbeing Coordinator with the Miyoopimatishihk (Wellbeing) Program. I bring 9 years combined experience working with adults with developmental disabilities and children with complex trauma needs. I started at MNBC this year and I’ve been very happy gaining as much knowledge as I can about my culture and heritage so I can bring these teachings to my young daughter. I live and work on the traditional and ancestral lands of the Semiahmoo, Katzie, Kwikwetlem, Kwantlen, Qayqayt and Tsawwassen First Nations.
Family Support Institute of BC (FSI) is a provincial not-for-profit society committed to supporting families who have a family member with a disability.
FSI is unique in Canada and the only grass roots family to family organization that has a broad volunteer base.
FSI SUPPORTS AND SERVICES ARE FREE TO ANY FAMILY
You are invited to join FSI CONTINUING CONVERSATIONS, a private Facebook Group intended to continue conversations of support or provide an alternative platform for support. www.facebook.com/groups/fsicontinuingconversations/
All FSI Zoom sessions can be accessed by telephone only if access to computers and/or internet is a barrier. If you need assistance registering for any session, please call our office at 1-800-441-5403.
*FG
227 6th Street
New Westminster, BC
V3L 3A5
(604) 540-8374 ext. 523
Support Line:
1-800-441-5403
Did you have a great experience with FSI? Please let us know!
As a provincial organization FSI acknowledges that our work spans across all of the traditional, ancestral, and unceded Indigenous territories in BC. Therefore, we respectfully honour all First Nations, Inuit and Métis people, as well as their ancestors, who have lived here and cared for these lands. It is with gratitude that we can live, learn and do our work in the province now known as British Columbia.
©2023 Family Support Institute | Privacy Policy | Registered Charity Number: 105629497RR0001. We acknowledge the financial assistance of the Province of British Columbia.
