Boundary Family Centre Network

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Boundary Family Centre Network

• Integration and Partnerships

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Boundary Integrated Services Collaborative
Christina Lake Family Centre

Glanville Family Centre
Big White Virtual Family Centre
Hutton Family Centre
Beaverdell Family Centre
Park Site Family Centre
Rock Creek Family Centre
Greenwood Family Centre
Midway Family Centre
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Child Youth Committee of the Boundary
Communities

Grand Forks
Christina Lake
Greenwood
Big White
Midway
Beaverdell
Rock Creek
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Boundary Family Centre Network
Full CoLocation Integration
Phase 3 2007 Ongoing Integration of MCFD
Synergistic Services into School Based Family
Centres
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Our First Principle Services are locally
accessible in ways that suit parent and child
preferences, personal resources and needs
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Aboriginal Family Support
Family Centre Coordinator
Early Years Services
Early Learning Continuum
Peer Mentors Parent Training
Heathy Development, Screening Assessment

Early Literacy
West Boundary Integrated Services
Ready Set Learn
Just Call Me Dad
New Rural Partnerships
Respectful Relationships
Child Care Resource Referral
Child Youth Family Services
Public Health

• Children First

Sexual Health Services
Success by Six
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Our Partners and What They Bring to Our Family
Centre Network
Public Health Nursing
Ministry for Children Family Development
School District 51
Other Partners
Boundary Family Individual Services Society
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• Ministry for Children
• Family Development
• Child Protection Family Support
• Child and Youth Mental Health
• Guardianship and Resources
• Youth Services
• Contracted Services for Child and Youth Mental
  Health, Early Childhood Development, Aboriginal
  Family Support and Non-Aboriginal Family Support

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Boundary Area MCFD

• Currently located at the Park Site Family Centre,
  co-located with BFISS
• The continuum of co-location to integration
• Integral MCFD connection with all Boundary Family
  Centres
• Ongoing dialogue helps to address staff concerns
• Bending inflexible systems

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Public Health Nursing
Ministry for Children Family Development
School District 51
Other Partners
Boundary Family Individual Services Society
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• Public Health
• Nursing
• Early Childhood Development, Screening
  Breastfeeding Support
• Baby Family Visits Mom Me
• Immunization/Communicable Disease
• Sexual School Health Services
• Healthy Community Development
• Dental Program
• Screening, Intervention, Health Promotion,
  Financial Assistance

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Public Health Nursing

• Bring Population Health Framework
• ? Community Mobilization
• Raise Health Issues
• Staff - Clients Community
• Difficulty in Getting Larger Health Authority to
  Recognize Benefits of Integration

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Public Health Nursing

• Integration Has Changed Our Work
• ? Responsiveness Synergistic Support
• Being linked to Community has de-stigmatized our
  role given us the opportunity to work much
  earlier with people families facing multiple
  vulnerabilities
• ? opportunities via Family Centers for Health
  Promotion Screening Communicable Disease
  Follow-up

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Public Health Nursing
Ministry for Children Family Development
School District 51
Other Partners
Boundary Family Individual Services Society
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• School District 51
• Education and Supports
• Family Centre Space in Schools
• School Board Engagement Support
• Technical Infrastructure Administrative Support

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School District Partnership Services

• Early Childhood Development
• Ready Set Learn, EDI, Just Call Me Dad,
  Kindergarten Project
• Partnership Programs
• Friends, Respectful Relationships, Kids in the
  Middle
• School Based Team Supports
• Integrated Case Management

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Focus of School Board Trustees

• Politics
• Open dialogue gives people a platform to voice
  their fears and find compromise
• Support
• School Board engagement
• Values
• Schools as the heart of community
• Value of all children and focus on what is best
  for students
• Trust in the vision
• Local Autonomy

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Public Health Nursing
Ministry for Children Family Development
School District 51
Other Partners
Boundary Family Individual Services Society
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• Boundary Family Individual
• Services Society
• Pregnancy Outreach
• Infant Development
• Physio Occupational Therapy
• Aboriginal Family Support
• Community Action Program for Children
• Community Integration Program

• Children Who Witness Abuse

• Child and Youth Counseling

• Family Support Youth Services

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Community Agent for Change

• The philosophy of BFISS is to act as an agent of
  the community
• Our vision lies within the shared dreams of the
  community
• We seek to empower and strengthen other groups
  and citizens to serve our community through
  action
• BFISS has been an agent of strengthening the
  early years services through providing
  opportunities to work collaboratively
• Co-location has deepened the work we do together

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Public Health Nursing
Ministry for Children Family Development
School District 51
Other Partners
Boundary Family Individual Services Society
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• Mobilizing
• Community Partnerships from the
• Inside Out

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Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communities
Selkirk College
Advisory Committees
Food Security
Boundary Child Care Resource Referral
Youth in Philanthropy

Faith Communities
Columbia Basin Alliance for Literacy
Blessings Boutique
Rock Creek Medical Society
Womens Shelter
Child and Youth Clubs
Ankors

• Youth Addictions Services

Options for Sexual Health
Success by Six
Credit Union
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Public Health Nursing
Ministry for Children Family Development
School District 51
Other Partners
Boundary Family Individual Services Society
Boundary Family Centres
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• Boundary Family Centres
• Early Years Programs Services
• Family Drop In
• Food Security
• Child and Family Services
• Services for Youth
• Parenting Programs Services
• Community Lead Initiatives
• Community Development

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Boundary Family Centres

• Therapy
• Speech Physio OT
• CYMH

• Programs Services Access through Funder
• Protective Family Services
• Child Youth Mental Health

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To Strengthen Our Family Centre Network We
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Resourcing Sustaining our Boundary Family
Centres

• Partnership Programs and Services
• Collaborative Approach
• School District 51
• Space Occupancy Rebate
• Technology Resources
• Phoenix Foundation Endowments

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Determining Direction

• Information data sharing
• Streamlining with use of shared technology
• Evidence based planning
• Challenging our assumptions
• Citizen involvement

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Challenges

• Base Funding for the Family Centre Network
• Time to deepen collaboration
• Attracting and retaining local qualified staff

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Goals for 2007-2008

• Continue to align efforts with community
  interests
• Broaden our base and deepen collaboration
• Effective communication and marketing strategies
• Base funding for the network

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Remember

• To listen to the voice of community citizens
• To challenge personal, group and community
  assumptions and encourage dialogue
• To be grounded in evidence and reality
• To believe in the power of sharing and
  collaborating

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• YOU CAN
• MAKE A DIFFERENCE

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Contacts

• Teresa Rezansoff, Trustee
• School District 51
• 250-442-8258
• Teresa.Rezansoff_at_sd51.bc.ca
• Maxine Ruzicka, Director of Instruction
• School District 51
• 250-442-8258
• Maxine.Ruzicka_at_sd51.bc.ca
• Leda Leander, Executive Director
• Boundary Family and Individual Services Society
• 250-442-2267
• Leda.Leander_at_bfiss.org
• Linda Mazon, Public Health Nurse
• Interior Health Authority
• 250-442-3150
• Linda.Manzon_at_interiorhealth.ca