Applications for the 2024 FCSSBC Youth Education Bursary are now open.

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The Fed is excited to announce that applications for the 2024 FCSSBC Youth Education Bursary are now open. The FCSSBC Youth Education Bursary assists young people, ages 30 or younger, that are in or have been in care, and want to pursue a career in human and social services. Bursarie ...Read More
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Support 2 Practice Management to be offered virtually in April 2024

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Overview Building on the learning and feedback through delivering Support to Practice Supervision (S2PS) to over 16 cohorts, the Federation, through facilitators Chris Burt and Gord Cote, is now piloting the next iteration of management practice workshops. Support to Practice Managemen ...Read More

SAJE | Strengthening Abilities and Journeys of Empowerment: Updates and Insights

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The Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) is implementing new programs and expanding services and supports for youth and young adults with experience in government care. The Strengthening Abilities and Journeys of Empowerment (SAJE) program envisions that every y ...Read More

Applications to participate in Cohort 4 of the Transformative Reconciliation program is open

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We are excited to announce that applications to participate in Cohort 4 of the Transformative Reconciliation program is open. This program has been designed for Federation members to engage in transformative reconciliation through collaborative learning, design ...Read More

Government Engagement & Advocacy: Get Involved

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Since 1982, The Federation has been a strong representative voice for BC’s social care sector. We bring forward issues and concerns—as well as possible solutions—on behalf of our members, their clients, and the broader community services sector. We engage in collaborative action with our allies and partners t ...Read More

What happened at the Social Policy Forum & GM

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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

Projects & Issues Update: Compensation, Training & Education, CYSN…

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We are well into the new year and, as you may suspect, The Federation remains hard at work on a number of important issues that also demanded our attention through 2022. Our board of directors and staff team are continuing to support you, our members, while also advocating on your behalf acros ...Read More

Advocacy and Engagement Updates

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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

New Grant Funding for Technology

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Back in 2020, The Federation launched the Community Social Services Training Fund—a pool of grant funding provided by the provincial government to support inclusive training and development efforts throughout our sector. In August of this year, our government colleagues announced another pool of grant funding to address gaps i ...Read More

CYSN and The Federation…

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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