Pilot Family Connection Centres

The Province is piloting a new service approach for children and youth with support needs and their families in four communities starting in 2023. 

Pilot family connections centres (FCCs) are operated by contracted community organizations in four centres in the Central Okanagan and the North Coast / Bulkley Nechako. 

Their service approach that is being piloted will be evaluated and this time will be used to allow for deeper engagement with all partners to build a better system of services for all children and youth with support that needs that is co-developed with Indigenous communities. 

These pilot centres will open in Kelowna, Prince Rupert, Terrace, and Smithers. 

The community agencies that will be delivering services in the four pilot areas are:

• ARC Programs Ltd. in Central Okanagan/Kelowna 
• North Coast Community Services Society in Haida Gwaii/Prince Rupert 
• Terrace Child Development Centre Society in Terrace/Kitimat 
• Northwest Child Development Centre Society in Bulkley Valley/Stikine

The Province committed to engaging in deeper consultation with children and youth with support needs, parents and caregivers, First Nations, Indigenous peoples, communities, experts and practitioners, and others with lived experience to understand how the system of supports for children and youth with support needs can be transformed and together build a better system of supports, co-developed with Indigenous communities. The four pilots will be evaluated during this process. 

The Province has launched an engagement portal to collect feedback as part of its overall work to design an effective system of services for children and youth with support needs

Visit the ministry’s CYSN Engagement Updates page for more information on this subject.