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.
Thinking about sexuality and sexual health is more than just biology.
In this workshop, as parents and support persons, you will have an opportunity to explore issues related to disability and sexuality and understand what to teach, ways to teach and when to teach your child or person you are supporting. This can be a complex issue to navigate and is often overlooked as it can be an uncomfortable road to travel. You will find a safe place to express your own thoughts and fears, have some fun and hopefully leave feeling more confident!
Mary Harber, MSW has worked in a variety of areas over her 30 years in social work. She has supported children, youth and families in the context of child welfare, trauma, healthy sexuality and children and youth with disabilities, parent support and youth addiction issues. Mary was the former coordinator for the Sexual Health Resource Network in Vancouver and continues to support organizations, families and communities around healthy sexuality and social learning. Although working in post-secondary settings teaching for the last 27 years She has always maintained her connection to community. She believes in the use of interactive learning, art and drama in the context of the helping relationship, social learning and social justice.
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/
After the session you are encouraged to share your feedback. This helps FSI improve our content to better serve the needs of families.
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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.
227 6th Street
New Westminster, BC
V3L 3A5
(604) 540-8374 ext. 523
Support Line:
1-800-441-5403
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.
