Community resources
Family Services
Families can find a wide range of support services. In some cases, you can request service on behalf of a family member. Services may include:
- child care support
programs — support, resources and referral services for child care
providers and parents
- arranging for child
care
- parenting education
- respite services
- home support worker
assistance
- a one-on-one child
and youth counselor who works with the child and their family and consults
with the child's school
- family counseling
- assistance for
Aboriginal families by Aboriginal support workers
- assistance for immigrant families by settlement workers
A list of other services available from the Ministry of Family and Children Development (BC) is available online.
Other resource directories for BC include:
| Community Resources - Human Early Learning Partnership | |
| This list of provincial organizations and online resources may be of interest to parents, service providers, and those working in the area of community development in British Columbia. | |
| The Redbook Online | |
| An online guide to community, social and government agencies and services across the Lower Mainland | |
For more information, call your local district office, (listed in the blue pages of your phone book) Monday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Updated: January 14, 2009
