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Regional Resource Guide Connecting You to Your Community Regional Resource Guide: Connecting You to Your Community Regional resource guide Connecting you to your community Regional resource guide: Connecting you to your community Copyright 2020 by the Adoptive Families Association of BC Editor: Allie Davison Content, layout, and design: Allie Davison The Adoptive Families Association of BC is a charitable, accredited, non-profit organization offering adoption support, information, and education. Find out more about AFABC at bcadoption.com. Adoptive Families Association of BC #200-7342 Winston Street Burnaby, British Columbia V5A 2H1 Canada bcadoption.com [email protected] 604-320-7330 | 1-877-ADOPT-07 All rights reserved. No part of this manual may be photocopied or reproduced without written permission from the publisher. No part of this publication can be stored in a retrieval systems by any means, recorded or otherwise, without written permission from the publisher. Printed in Canada. All photos from our annual Faces of Family photo contest. Featuring the Akhavan, Altizer, Armstrong, Beeman, Benndorf, Borkowski, Bradbury, Bradley, Carroll, Ciccone, Claycamp, Davis, Dick, Domonkos, Easterbrook, Franco Cea, Fredrick, Giesbrecht, Ho, Hogan, Imrie, Keno, Kilpatrick, L., Lafortune, Lane, Larocque, Legare, Magnuson, Mayeta Cumba, Nanji, Nishi, O’Leary, Patenaude, Pimentel, Pon, Preston, Rennison, Walker, Watters, Widen, and Yuen families. REGIONAL RESOURCE GUIDE | 2 ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BC Contents ABOUT THIS GUIDE 5 PROVINCIAL 6 COAST/FRASER 11 EVERYONE HAS A STORY: MEET THE DOMONKOS FAMILY 15 KOOTENAYS/THOMPSON-CARIBOO/OKANAGAN 17 NORTH 22 VANCOUVER ISLAND 25 EVERYONE HAS A STORY: MEET THE LAFORTUNE FAMILY 29 ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BC MEET YOUR FAMILY SUPPORT WORKER No matter where you are in BC, we’ve got you covered! Contact us for support, information, and connections at any stage of your adoption journey. Sarah Reid Manager, Family Services Elaine Hsu Brandi Kennedy Program Coordinator, [email protected] [email protected] Family Services 604-566-8122 778-256-5350 [email protected] 604-320-7330 ext 101 Angie McMullen NORTH [email protected] Adopt BC Kids Info Line 778-789-5183 1-877-ADOPT-07 Lucy French THOMPSON [email protected] COAST FRASER CARIBOO 604-320-7330 NORTH & CENTRAL ext 105 VANCOUVER ISLAND KOOTENAYS OKANAGAN SOUTH Tara Pugh [email protected] 250-507-0716 ADOPTION BASICS Adopt BC Kids Info Line : 1-877-ADOPT-07 bcadoption.com/about-adoption [email protected] www.bcadoption.com REGIONAL RESOURCE GUIDE | 4 ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BC About this guide Welcome to our Regional Resource Guide! We’ve compiled resources from each region of BC into a handy guide for our community. This guide is split into five sections: provincial, Coast/Fraser, Kootenays/Thompson-Cariboo/Okanagan, North, and Vancouver Island. We’ve also thrown in a couple of family stories and photos throughout to keep things interesting! While we’ve worked hard to find resources in all the regions, we’re sure there are some great ones we missed. If you know of a great resource we should include please email us at [email protected] and we can look into it. Please note that AFABC does not in any way favour or promote these individuals, groups, or organizations, nor does AFABC endorse any programs, or services that they may provide. AFABC also does not endorse any information that they may distribute. AFABC has not verified the quality of any of these individuals, clinics or agencies, or the credentials of their staff. We have compiled this list of groups and organizations for your information and to assist you in finding resources. It is up to you to determine which resource works best for you. Connect with us You can find us on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, as well as through our website! We also have 10 active Facebook Support Groups, where you can connect with other members of our community to help you along with every step in your adoption journey. Facebook Support Groups Family Support Workers Search on Facebook or click the links here! z All Ages Adoptive Parents Our team of Family Support z Waiting Parents Group Workers are experienced adoptive z Single Adoptive Parent Support parents, and they’re here to z Adoptive Parents of support you! Indigenous Children Our Family Support Workers z FASD Parent Support provide free community-based z Transracial and Intercountry FIND US ONLINE one-to-one support, workshops, Adoptive Parents and family events to adoptive z Adoptive Parents of Teens @bcadopt and waiting parents as well as to z LGBTQ - Adoptive Parents people considering adoption. Support Network - BC bcadoption.com z Families Raising Family in BC Find the Family Support Worker in z *NEW* Adoption Basics: New [email protected] your region online at: to Adoption bcadoption.com/familysupport ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BC REGIONAL RESOURCE GUIDE | 5 PROVINCIAL Provincial AFABC resources the adoption journey. Whether Facebook support groups, and are you are thinking about adopting, available for online chat. Adoption Basics are already parenting, or a bcadoption.com/abasics professional in the field, there Education are courses designed with you in Adoption Basics is an online Pivot Point Family Growth mind. Complete your mandatory presentation that answers your top Centre Inc. adoption education program, questions about adoption. You’ll pivotpoint.ca | 1.866.531.4544 participate in one of our online learn about the adoption programs workshops, or view an on-demand in BC, the adoption process, and Through Distributed Learning, webinar—all online! have a chance to reflect on your Pivot Point provides a wide range of educational services to students motivations to adopt. Online resource centre from pre-school through post- bcadoption.com/resources You can do this presentation any secondary and University. time, at your own pace. Our online resource centre is Teacher’s Tutoring Service (TTS) designed to provide adoptive AgedOut.com tutor.bc.ca | 604.730.3410 families and adoption AgedOut.com professionals access to in-depth TTS’ mandate is to provide AgedOut.com is for young adults information on adoption issues students with one-to-one who were in government care in and parenting. professional tutoring of a BC. It’s an up-to-date warehouse consistently high standard at a Online support of information on resources and reasonable rate. All TTS tutors are bcadoption.com/online-support services available to young adults qualified teachers. and a learning tool to help people We offer a number of online feel empowered as they leave care. supports including Virtual Support Families Sessions once a week during the Education BC Council for Families (BCCF) day, plus one evening session per bcadoption.com/education bccf.ca | 604.678.8884 month. We also host online FASD Education supports and Parenting Support Meetings and BCCF develops and delivers strengthens families throughout Waiting Parents Meetings, have 10 family support resources and REGIONAL RESOURCE GUIDE | 6 ADOPTIVE FAMILIES ASSOCIATION OF BC training programs to professionals and friends of people with Sources Community Resources PROVINCIAL across the province that focus on schizophrenia. Since then, BCSS sourcesbc.ca | 604.531.6226 prevention, inclusiveness, and has grown into a province-wide Sources Community Resources building skills and confidence. family support system. They are Society is an internationally- dedicated to supporting each They support families and accredited, community-based other, educating the public, family service practitioners by non-profit organization. They raising funds for research, and sharing knowledge and building have been providing help, advocating for better services community connections. encouragement and hope for for people with schizophrenia individuals and families in White Family Support Institute of BC and other serious and persistent Rock, Surrey, Delta, Langley, Prince familysupportbc.com | mental illness. George, Parksville, and beyond for 1.800.441.5403 FamilySmart Together over 40 years. The Family Support Institute familysmart.ca | 1.855.887.8004 Indigenous assists and supports families who FamilySmart® comes alongside have a family member with a First Nation Health Authority young people and families to disability. (FNHA) provide support, navigation fnha.ca | 1.866.913.0033 Found Families assistance, and information, foundfamilies.com and then invites them and The FNHA is responsible for professionals to come together planning, designing, managing Found Families is an organization to learn with and from each and funding the delivery of First that provides free family other to enhance the quality of Nations health programs across BC. photography sessions, through a experiences and services for child Guide to Indigenous network of volunteers, to families and youth mental health. that have recently adopted a child. organizations and services Health Link BC gov.bc.ca/gov/content/ Health/wellness/ healthlinkbc.ca | 8-1-1 governments/indigenous-people/ aboriginal-organizations-services mental health HealthLink BC provides This guide is a resource listing of British Columbia Schizophrenia reliable non-emergency health Indigenous community-based Society (BCSS) information and advice in BC. services and organizations. bcss.org | 1.888.888.0029 Information and advice are available by telephone, their The guide provides other BCSS is a non-profit organization website, a mobile app, and a community service organizations, founded in 1982 by families collection of print resources.
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