Thank you to everyone—our members, allies, and partners—who joined us in Victoria last week to participate in The Federation’s 2023 Social Policy Forum. All of you took time from your lives and your work to spend a day thinking and designing ways to better serve some of our most vulnerable young people and th ...Read More

Procurement, Labour Market Development, CYSN Systems Change, Youth Justice One of the things that all of our members have in common is that you are doing a lot of things all of the time. This sector can be hectic and it often seems like a lot is happening all at once—contracts, recruiting, board meetings, fundraising, co ...Read More

How we got here… Last year, MCFD announced significant changes to the system of care for children and youth with support needs (CYSN). Consultations for this process began back in 2019, albeit without a lot of clarity about how the harvest from the consultations would be used and before the upheaval and tragedy of the pandemic—w ...Read More

Apply to participate in the program’s next cohort! In 2020, The Federation partnered with Dr. Dustin Louie from the University of Calgary (now at UBC) to create a custom-built, cohort-based, year-long program called Transformative Reconciliation in Community Social Services. The program was designed to provide a ...Read More

Living into reconciliation has been an intentional goal of The Federation for nearly a decade and is also the foundation of our strategic plan. It is not easy. We have made mistakes and we will continue to make mistakes. But The Federation strives to change the conditions in which we are living and create mo ...Read More