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 Ministry for Child and Family Development (MCFD) recently announced a new model for Children and Youth with Support Needs Services (CYSN). A model that claims to support more children and youth with support needs following a needs-based model rather than a diagnostic model and implementing family connections hubs all over British Columbia. The program will
Family Support Institute of BC, Inclusion BC, BC Parents of Complex Kids, and BCEdAccess heard from families about your experiences accessing emergency pandemic funding and/or services for your child or youth with disabilities through the Ministry of Children and Family Development’s (MCFD) Children and Youth with Special Needs (CYSN) Program. Our organizations hear regularly
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.