Member Events
Federation members can submit information about upcoming events, training sessions, and workshops by filling out the online form in the members-only area of the website. Federation staff will post and update this list regularly.
Member Events
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Emerging Practices in Decolonizing Child, Youth and Family Services
2023-12-05 | Emerging Practices in Decolonizing Child, Youth and Family Services
Organization: BC Council for Families
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Start Date: 12/05/2023
End Date: 12/06/2023
Event Times: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Event Website: https://shop.bccf.ca/catalogue/emerging-practices-in-decolonizing-family-services-december-2023_1176/
Description: This workshop hosted by the BC Council for Families is designed for family service professionals who are looking to deepen their knowledge and practice in decolonization strategies. We will explore how current practices inform support for Indigenous families, and how we can create space for culturally safe approaches during service delivery. Participants will get the chance to learn through interactive exercises and group work while being guided by the facilitators.
It would be helpful for participants to have some background knowledge in Indigenous Cultural Safety prior to attending this workshop. Indigenous Cultural Safety for Family Support Agencies is available through the BCCF and is also facilitated by Harley Eagle.
Workshop Highlights:
-Review Indigenous Cultural Safety in the context of family services
-Learn how to create "ethical spaces" in social work practice
-Explore decolonization strategies in service delivery stages
-Consider creating a community of practice within the field
About the Facilitators
Harley Eagle is of Dakota and Ojibway Indigenous heritage and a long time resident on Vancouver Island. He is a well experienced consultant and trainer in the fields of transforming conflict, anti-racism, dismantling oppression, cultural safety and trauma healing as well as an Indigenous Cultural Safety educator for the Regional Health Authority on Vancouver Island. He is often contracted to consult and advise organizations, companies and government agencies and invited to speak at conferences both nationally and internationally on issues pertaining to his work. Harley looks to Indigenous life ways to guide his work.
Azadeh Miley is a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) and an Approved Clinical Supervisor (ACS) with the BCAAC and holds a Master’s Degree in Counselling Psychology. She is the Lead for the Integrated Child and Youth Teams with Fraser Health and provides guidance and clinical supervision to children, youth, and family programs in the Fraser Region. In her previous role Azadeh was a clinical supervisor for family preservation and reunification programs as well as youth services programs with Sources Community Resources. Azadeh enjoys working with youth and families while adapting a culturally safe and trauma-informed lens. Azadeh has also been taking leadership on an organizational level towards reconciliation and decolonization of mental health and social services programs. She has been guiding programs and staff in recognizing colonized practices and considering how to weave decolonization into the fabric of programs. -
Trauma Aware Communication
2024-02-05 | Trauma Aware Communication
Organization: BC Council for Families
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Start Date: 02/05/2024
End Date: 02/12/2024
Event Times: 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
Event Website: https://shop.bccf.ca/catalogue/trauma-aware-communication-february-2024_1194/
Description: Being aware of how trauma presents in people is a critical skill for anyone, including family support professionals. In this workshop, we will learn about ourselves, explore how we perceive and filter information, and learn communication strategies that are based on understanding trauma.
In the first part of this workshop hosted by the BC Council for Families, we will create the foundation for our time together. We will share our understanding of trauma (our personal and societal views) and we will look at the concept of a “spectrum of trauma.” We will briefly explore self-compassion and how this approach is a powerful ally and tool for better communication.
In the second part of the workshop, we will experiment with somatic witnessing, or becoming aware of body sensations (for example, a tightness in the stomach) and how this may relate to trauma. We will examine emotions, needs, and feelings, as well as communication styles and cognitive distortions, (all of nothing thinking, mental filtering, mind reading, and more). Through self-compassion and non-judgemental activities, participants will be able to see how information is filtered and perceived, and how this can affect communication.
Past participants have shared that this workshop has highlighted the importance of personal responsibility in communication. Others have shared that it helped make a positive shift in their workplace as employees/co-workers started to communicate differently, using "I language," and a better understanding of how they are communicating and perceiving information.
Learning Objectives
-To understand the role that we play as the professional individual in trauma aware communication
-To recognize your personal “triggers” and how to separate that from your current situation
-To learn how to be self-compassionate and curious (rather than judgemental) as you become aware of your cognitive distortions and communication style
-To become aware of communication styles and how to be a responsible communicator
-To acquire skills on how to be mindful with information, internal dialogue, and how one communicates information -
Mothers Mental Health Toolkit Training
2024-02-07 | Mothers Mental Health Toolkit Training
Organization: BC Council for Families
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Start Date: 02/07/2024
End Date: 02/08/2024
Event Times: 9:30 AM-1:00 PM
Event Website: https://shop.bccf.ca/catalogue/mothers-mental-health-toolkit-training-february-2024_1206/
Description: This newly updated workshop hosted by the BC Council for Families will enhance your mental health literacy, provide a guide for the promotion of mental wellness for mothers, and promote practices that build resiliency and a strong network of community supports.
The valuable toolkit is a workbook-style resource that will increase maternal mental health knowledge, skills, and confidence among those working with mothers and families.
This toolkit and workshop will:
-enhance your mental health literacy,
-provide you with a guide for promoting mental wellness for mothers,
-teach tools and techniques to help you prevent mental health issues,
-help you recognize the risks and signs of possible mental illness,
-help you guide women and their families—and other people supporting them—to understand and access assessment and treatment services, and
-enhance your knowledge of community responses and support that encourage recovery and decrease stigma.
As a bonus, participants will have access to the Growing Together Toolkit, a complementary resource designed by the BC Council for Families, that presents services providers with strategies to build healthy relationships with babies and toddlers and focuses on mothers who are dealing with depression, anxiety, substance use, trauma and other challenging circumstances. Accompanying Parent Handouts are translated into 9 languages! -
Strengthening Self-Regulation through Self-Compassion: how to create peace, patience and less overwhelm
2024-02-14 | Strengthening Self-Regulation through Self-Compassion: how to create peace, patience and less overwhelm
Organization: BC Council for Families
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Start Date: 02/14/2024
End Date: 02/21/2024
Event Times: 9:30 AM-12:00 PM
Event Website: https://shop.bccf.ca/catalogue/strengthening-self-regulation-through-self-compassion-how-to-create-peace-patience-and-less-overwhelm-february-2024_1203/
Description: Learn to identify and practice self-compassion
In this workshop hosted by the BC Council for Families, we will explore some of the myths about self-compassion as well as what self-compassion is and what it is NOT. We will introduce the three pillars of self-compassion: mindfulness, common humanity, and kindness, and explore them both individually and collectively. We will look at some of the benefits of self-compassion and the resistance we experience to it, including the beliefs that lead to this resistance.
Learning Objectives
-Explore our thoughts, feelings, and internal dialogue about self-compassion
-Discuss the myths about self-compassion and what it is and is not
-Begin to understand the science behind self-compassion
-Learn what it means to “create space,” and to get curious about yourself with self-compassion, mindfulness, and personal awareness (using somatic awareness exercises)
-Gain an introduction to the three pillars of self-compassion and spend time exploring them through solo and group activities/explorations -
My Tween and Me Program Facilitator Training
2024-02-21 | My Tween and Me Program Facilitator Training
Organization: BC Council for Families
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Start Date: 02/21/2024
End Date: 02/23/2024
Event Times: 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Event Website: https://shop.bccf.ca/catalogue/my-tween-and-me-leader-training-november-2023_1188/
Description: My Tween and Me is a parenting program for families with children aged 7-12 years.
The BC Council for Families' 15-hour training is newly revised to provide family service professionals with practical strategies and techniques that are flexible and adaptive in promoting positive youth development for tweens as they transition into adolescence and early adulthood.
Learn new facilitation skills to engage both parents and their tweens in our innovative curriculum that goes beyond parent education to promote strong family relationships and positive youth development for children aged 7-12 as they move through the critical transition from childhood to adolescence.
Learn how to help parents:
-Strengthen their pre-teen’s self-confidence, esteem and worth
-Positively influence their pre-teen’s choices, values and goals
-Support their tweens in making healthy decisions
The training centers around five core topics:
1) Healthy development of children age 7 – 12
2) Life at school as a pre-teen
3) Building strong family relationships
4) Encouraging strong peer relationships
5) Exploring today’s pre-teen world and building community
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Boundary Practice for Managers
2024-02-26 | Boundary Practice for Managers
Organization: BC Council for Families
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Start Date: 02/26/2024
End Date: 02/28/2024
Event Times: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Event Website: https://shop.bccf.ca/catalogue/boundary-practice-for-managersfebruary-2024_1202/
Description: How can managers and administrators support frontline workers to establish and maintain healthy boundaries?
Organizations are increasingly encouraging frontline staff to participate in boundary workshops for professional development.
In this workshop hosted by the BC Council for Families, managers will learn to see common communication issues, conflicts, and workplace dynamics through a boundary lens, with a view to creating a “boundary-informed” culture at work.
A boundary-informed workplace is one that cultivates and supports healthy boundaries and integrated self-care for all. Managers will learn about their own boundary styles and patterns of relating, how to practice and model boundaries specifically in their role as a manager, and how to support staff in their own boundary practice and goals.
Workshop Highlights:
-The context of human service work and the helping professions
-Three boundary styles and how to recognize them
-Somatic exercises and boundary practice
-Applying boundary practice to the role of manager, with staff, clients and organizations
-Interactive exercises in partners/small groups
-Practice examples and scenarios -
Restorative Self-Care for Sustainable Practice
2024-03-04 | Restorative Self-Care for Sustainable Practice
Organization: BC Council for Families
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Start Date: 03/04/2024
End Date: 03/06/2024
Event Times: 9:30 AM-12:30 PM
Event Website: https://shop.bccf.ca/catalogue/restorative-self-care-for-sustainable-practice-march-2024_1207/
Description: Self-care can help prevent burnout and compassion fatigue, but not all forms of "self-care" are restorative and helpful.
In fact, sometimes the responsibility of self-care can become an additional burden in difficult times. It can lead us to choose performative activities that don't address the harmful stress we're experiencing and become one more thing we have to do.
Is it an act of self-care to get up off the couch and go for a walk, or to find a blanket and stay on the couch? Either of these actions could be self-care, so how do we know which would be most restorative for us on any given day? Is self-care always an activity? We might book a massage, and then feel stress driving in traffic, finding parking, and sitting in the waiting room, when it may have been more restorative for us to stay home and take a nap or call a friend.
In this workshop hosted by the BC Council for Families, participants will learn how to personalize self-care practices, and to distinguish between restorative and performative self-care. We'll learn to identify 'stress cycles' in our personal and professional lives, and examine the link between these cycles and burnout. With reference to self-compassion and boundary practice, we'll do a deep dive into the real work of caring for ourselves when our job is to care for others.
Workshop Highlights
-Identifying and understanding restorative self-care, burnout and the stress cycle
-Assessing our current self-care across various dimensions of health
-Supporting yourself and others in sustainable practice
-Practice examples and scenarios -
Nobody’s Perfect Parenting Facilitator Training: March 2024
2024-03-08 | Nobody’s Perfect Parenting Facilitator Training: March 2024
Organization: BC Council for Families
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Start Date: 03/08/2024
End Date: 03/14/2024
Event Times: 9:00 AM-4:30 PM
Event Website: https://shop.bccf.ca/catalogue/nobodys-perfect-parenting-facilitator-training-march-2024_1204/
Description: Learn how to help parents with children aged 0-5 years connect, build knowledge, and gain confidence.
Develop new skills for delivering strength-based learning and conducting non-judgmental and inclusive community programming. Participants learn how to facilitate experiential learning in which parents gain information and insight and learn how to apply what they have learned to many areas of their lives. NPP is a core training for family support professionals hosted by the BC Council for Families.
This crucial program, developed in Canada for parents of every cultural community, has been consistently demonstrated to positively impact the parenting knowledge, skills and confidence of participants. For parents in particularly stressful situations – when there simply isn’t enough money, when they’re new to the community or to the country, when they’re young, or under-educated, or struggling without a partner or family support – being part of a supportive group of parents who understand and share their difficulties can make all the difference.
Who is this training for?
The Nobody’s Perfect facilitator training is specifically aimed at those with previous experience and/or education in facilitating groups and working with children, youth and families. You will be comfortable with the basic principles of adult education, currently employed with or volunteering at a multi-service or family support organization, and passionate about supporting families in all their diversity.
After attending this training, you will have developed:
-Knowledge of Nobody’s Perfect program objectives and materials
-Increased awareness of the principles of adult education and their application to the Nobody’s Perfect program parents
-Enhanced skills in assessing the needs of parent groups
-Ability to plan and direct program sessions
-Enriched practical facilitation skills
-A complete training and program materials package is included in the cost of the training.
Technology Check
Please note that there will be a tech check on Friday, February 23rd at noon that all participants are expected to attend.
Dates and Times
-Tech Check: Friday, February 23, 12:00 p.m. PST
-Friday, March 8th, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. PST
-Monday, March 11th, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. p.m. PST
-Thursday, March 14th, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. PST
-Friday, March 15th, 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. PST -
Integrated Strategies for Home Visitors
2024-04-09 | Integrated Strategies for Home Visitors
Organization: BC Council for Families
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Start Date: 04/09/2024
End Date: 04/12/2024
Event Times: 10:00 AM- 3:00 PM
Event Website: https://shop.bccf.ca/catalogue/integrated-strategies-for-home-visitors-april-2024_1200/
Description: Acquire new knowledge, tools, and techniques to support families (with children aged 0-6 years) in their homes in this core training developed by Great Kids, Inc.* (GKI).
In this hands-on, engaging, and informative program, hosted by the BC Council for Families, you’ll learn about the protective factors that increase the health and well-being of children and families, as well as practical strategies to teach and strengthen these factors in the families you work with. Participants will receive a manual and international training certification from GKI.
Participants will benefit from:
-Opportunities to concretely apply theory to practice
-Action tools, assessment tools and practical strategies for engaging families in home visiting
-Strategies for building parental confidence and competencies that support growth in families and promote positive parent-child relationships
-Informative discussions on professional boundaries, limit setting and self-care tips
-Networking with other family practitioners who do home visits
-A comprehensive manual full of tools and ideas.
Participants will receive certification for full attendance.
Assignments
Please note there are Learning Assignments in this virtual training model that must be completed after Days 1, 2 and 3 - for approximately 2 hours.
Dates and Times
April 9, 10, 11 and 12, 2024 from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. each day
Orientation Session
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Nobody’s Perfect Parenting Facilitator Training: April, 2024
2024-04-24 | Nobody’s Perfect Parenting Facilitator Training: April, 2024
Organization: BC Council for Families
Event Location: Online via Zoom
Start Date: 04/24/2024
End Date: 04/30/2024
Event Times: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM
Event Website: https://shop.bccf.ca/catalogue/nobodys-perfect-parenting-facilitator-training-april-2024_1196/
Description: Learn how to help parents with children aged 0-5 years connect, build knowledge, and gain confidence.
Develop new skills for delivering strength-based learning and conducting non-judgmental and inclusive community programming. Participants learn how to facilitate experiential learning in which parents gain information and insight and learn how to apply what they have learned to many areas of their lives. NPP is a core training for family support professionals hosted by the BC Council for Families.
This crucial program, developed in Canada for parents of every cultural community, has been consistently demonstrated to positively impact the parenting knowledge, skills and confidence of participants. For parents in particularly stressful situations – when there simply isn’t enough money, when they’re new to the community or to the country, when they’re young, or under-educated, or struggling without a partner or family support – being part of a supportive group of parents who understand and share their difficulties can make all the difference.
Who is this training for?
The Nobody’s Perfect facilitator training is specifically aimed at those with previous experience and/or education in facilitating groups and working with children, youth and families. You will be comfortable with the basic principles of adult education, currently employed with or volunteering at a multi-service or family support organization, and passionate about supporting families in all their diversity.
After attending this training, you will have developed:
-Knowledge of Nobody’s Perfect program objectives and materials
-Increased awareness of the principles of adult education and their application to the Nobody’s Perfect program parents
-Enhanced skills in assessing the needs of parent groups
-Ability to plan and direct program sessions
-Enriched practical facilitation skills
A complete training and program materials package is included in the cost of the training.
Dates and Times
-Wednesday, April 24th 1:00 p.m. –.4:30 p.m PST
-Thursday, April 25th 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. p.m. PST
-Friday, April 26th 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. PST
-Monday, April 29th 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. PST
-Tuesday, April 30th 9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. PST