Category: Advocacy

Enhancing Collective Impact: The Financial Empowerment Community of Practice

Financial Empowerment at FSGV is building a Community of Practice for frontline organizations that offer (or want to offer) trauma-informed financial empowermen...

Respecting the Person Behind the Story: FSGV’s Client Story Philosophy

We treat people as people rather than as marketing and fundraising tools. This approach is about trust, both building and maintaining it. We are committed to ou...

There’s More Support for Survivors: What Client-Led and Trauma-Informed Means at FSGV

Making support for victims and survivors equitable means making it free; making it trauma-informed means making sure it's client-led and that survivors get to d...

There’s More to Brenda’s Story

Brenda Lochhead doesn't particularly like the spotlight to be on her, however we're sharing a bit of her work and advocacy today to celebrate what she has broug...

Support for Seniors Experiencing Harm (New Westminster)

About FSGV's New Westminster Elder Abuse Victim Support Program

There’s More to Your Family’s Story: You Define Family, We Support It

Every day of the year, Family Services of Greater Vancouver is there with a helping hand for families across the Lower Mainland. Each person gets to define fami...

Community Partnership: Fighting for Food Security

Vancouver Food Runners (VFR) launched in 2020 in response to seeing article after article about the rapidly rising rates of food insecurity during the pandemic....

Pride at Directions Youth Services

Since Directions began, there have always been 2SLGBTQIA+ youth coming, and welcome, here. At the beginning of 2023, we were able to launch the Directions 2SLGB...

Justice After Exploitation: Our 2nd Annual Webinar for Victims and Survivors of Crime Week

A brief overview of our 2nd annual webinar in honour of Victims and Survivors of Crime Week along with a link to the recording and slides from the presentation....

Thinking Beyond the BC Budget

The 2024 BC Budget was delivered on February 22, 2024, promising action for a stronger British Columbia. Like many non-profits in the community social services ...

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