teams

what we do

Community Teams:

  • Our Community Navigation Team serves as the first point of contact for individuals seeking support or inquiring about a child's or family's wellness, as well as our programs and services. 
  • Our Community Caregivers Team is dedicated to keeping children with their families and communities when parents or caregivers need time to focus on their own healing. This team actively works to move away from the western foster care model, instead supporting the extended family members and the broader community in caring for young people, ensuring that community and cultural connections are preserved.
  • The Community Team provides support through building relationships with each of the band representatives and key contacts within each of the five communities as well as agencies located within the Nicola Valley. Through community planning we build capacity and community readiness through work planning, training, skills development, collective education and ongoing evaluation and feedback.

Prevention Services Teams:

  • Our Child Wellness Team is dedicated to supporting children from prenatal through 12 years of age, promoting healthy development at every stage. We empower parents by helping them develop, enhance, and strengthen traditional parenting skills, ensuring the overall wellness of the entire family.
  • Our Youth Team provides individual support to young people using culturally safe and strengths-based strategies. They plan individual and group activities to promote connection, support our youth by meeting them where they're at, and offer regular check-ins. Programs include Youth Outreach, Youth Transition, Youth Wellness, and the Nicola Canoe Pull. 
  • The Family Prevention Team is responsible for supporting parents, couples and families in actualizing their holistic wellness goals, building capacity, and creating strategies to ensure families are healthy and whole. Programs include Family Circles, Relationship Wellness, Men's Group, and Women's Group.

Other teams:

  • Our Culture & Language Team works to incorporate nłeʔkepmx and syilx language and cultural practices into our services and programs. Elders and Knowledge Keepers help guide the cultural teachings and language in our programs, and our Cultural Program Coordinators develop and facilitate these programs – all to help people retain and spread knowledge of traditional teachings and practices. 
  • Our Child and Youth Mental Health Team provides confidential therapeutic services to young people impacted by various measures of intergenerational trauma. They also offer outreach services for Indigenous family members experiencing difficult feelings or behaviours - this support is free, confidential and provided both on and off reserve.
  • Our Emergency Services Team assists in the prevention, mitigation, preparedness, response and recovery of emergencies – working in close collaboration with other SCFSS teams and community members.

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