Family Strengthening Team
The Family Strengthening Team supports parents and caregivers with guidance, advocacy, and access to resources, helping children stay safely connected to their family, culture, community, and identity. We’re here to help families work through challenges and build strong support systems along the way.
Our role is to walk alongside families, recognizing the strengths that each family already brings, while helping identify resources, build skills, strengthen supports, and find ways forward. Our goal is to keep children safely connected to their family, culture, community, and identity. To do that, services are flexible, voluntary, and tailored to each family’s unique circumstances.
This program offers holistic, family-centred support. This includes:
Parenting guidance
Support with family goals and planning
Help navigating systems and services, and accessing resources and referrals
Mental wellness support
Child and youth advocacy
Stronger connections to culture and community
Coordinated wraparound support when additional needs arise
F.A.Q.
Yes. We can provide support, coaching, referrals, and practical assistance.
Yes. Advocacy and systems navigation are core parts of our work.
Where funding and program criteria allow, we may be able to provide short-term assistance or connect families with available resources.
No. Services are voluntary and available regardless of child welfare involvement.
Contact Information
Family Strengthening Team Lead
250-306-4387
fstl@okanagan.org
Family Strengthening Worker
250-503-7987
fsw@okanagan.org
Family Strengthening Peer Support Worker
250-306-2330
fstl@okanagan.org