Sea to Sky

The organization supports families and caregivers in order to provide safe care for Indigenous children and youth that promotes and respects their well-being and cultural identity. Here we provide information for families on how to navigate our services and potential child protection concerns and outline our family preservation and reunification programs to support families through their healing journey.

Provides in-home child and youth intervention, assessment, case planning, parenting training, counselling, support groups, mentoring, and supervised visitation. Also provides immediate, short-term, crisis-oriented service. All referrals through VACFSS Child Protection Services.

Types of family homes: VACFSS is seeking short and long-term family care homes as well as relief and respite caregivers. Respite care is when a person or family temporarily cares for another family’s child. This gives the child’s biological family a break so the parents can get step away for some restorative time. Relief care is providing a break to other foster caregivers.

Steps To Becoming a Caregiver:

• Establish what your reasons and motivations are for wanting to become a caregiver
• Submit contact form: Click here
• Attend an information session: Caregiver will then be invited to an information session where the process of becoming a caregiver will be described on a visual or in person platform with other applicant.
• Request and complete an application to provide care: after attending an information session, an application package will be mailed to you to complete then return in person or mail to our office to begin processing. A resource file will be opened and our recruitment team will process the application; if successful, your application will move forward with a home study.
• The Structured Analysis Family Evaluation (SAFE) Home Study: A social worker will commence the SAFE home study interviews with a number of sessions that will be arranged. Areas that will be discussed are: your history, personal characteristics, partner relationship, a conversation with everyone who lives in the home, addressing extended family relations, viewing the physical environment of your home and assessing general parenting styles and skill.