RCY-CYSN Research report highlights key components for CYSN service delivery – current FCC pilot model leaves more questions than answers FSI calls CYSN to make funding available, equal and flexible for all children, youth and families (February 24, 2023 – New Westminster, B.C.)—Family Support Institute (FSI) applauds andwelcomes the most
(November 26, 2022 – New Westminster, B.C.) The Family Support Institute (FSI) is pleased and celebrates the announcement from Premier David Eby to extend autism funding past 2025, overturning past decisions to halt the funding to over 23,000 families in B.C. This decision will bring relief and ease angst to thousands of
Lack of meaningful engagement, clear correspondence or action plans from the Ministry of Health creates additional barriers for children with complex medical needs.
Did you know that Family Support Institute is the only grassroots, family-to-family peer support organization focused on disability and mental health combined across British Columbia? Read our article featured in Global Heroes magazine, July 2022 issue (pg. 4-5), “Families Supporting Families – Disability is Everyone’s Business.”
The Family Support Institute of BC (FSI) is a provincial non-profit society dedicated to empowering and supporting families who have a family member with a disability.
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.
