VANCOUVER FAMILY
PRESERVATION AND 
REUNIFICATION SERVICES

Vancouver Family Preservation and Reunification Services helps diverse families increase their safety and wellbeing.

Services offered are broad, tailored to a family’s unique needs, and can include meeting concrete needs.

HOW WE HELP

We help families with a range of challenges, including:

  • Parent/child conflict
  • Life crisis
  • Children with special needs
  • Single-parenting issues
  • Parent-child separation
  • Grief and loss
  • Relationship difficulties/breakdown
  • Family violence
  • Poverty
  • Racism
  • Family court involvement
  • Stress
  • Difficulty accessing resources and housing
  • Physical and mental illness
  • Addictions
  • Trauma, and more

There is no fee for Vancouver Family Preservation and Reunification Services, funding is provided by the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD).

A referral from an MCFD social worker is required to access this program.

PROGRAMS AND SERVICES

  • Counselling for individuals, couples and families
  • Group sessions to develop parenting skills, life skills, and more
  • Coordination with other community resources
  • Supervised visits with children in care
  • One-to-one support for children and youth
  • Mentoring programs for children, youth and parents
  • Homemaking services
  • Mediation
  • Play therapy
  • Specialized therapy
  • Parent education programs
  • Information and referral to other community resources

PARENTING GROUPS AND PROGRAMS

VFPRS at Family Services of Greater Vancouver has educational community parenting groups.

We invite you to come learn about your child’s development and deepen your understanding of what parenting means to you.

Our groups cover topics like:

  • attachment-based parenting
  • connecting with your child through play
  • communication strategies
  • skills to support your child’s emotional regulation
  • guiding your child with positive forms of discipline
  • promoting your child’s problem-solving skills and sense of responsibility
  • how to practice self-compassion in parenting (it’s hard!)

The groups we offer change throughout the year and include:

  • Circle of Security
  • Positive Discipline
  • Focus on Fatherhood
  • Your Unique Family (raising neurodivergent kids)
  • The Language of Play (expressive arts)
  • Parent-Tween Series
  • Self-Compassion Workshops
  • And more!

To see which groups are currently running and the dates, times, and locations of each, check out our calendar or get in touch with us. 

See the Calendar

“This service let me think differently about my life. They helped me to become more independent and strong. And helped me to become a more responsible mother to my son.”

– Family Preservation client

GET IN TOUCH

VANCOUVER

Vancouver Family Preservation
and Reunification Services

4103 Fraser Street
T: 604 875 6277

 

 

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