Family & Youth

Objectives:

• To strengthen and enrich families and individuals who are experiencing challenges through counselling services, support services and family life education
• To advocate for the rights of individuals and families

Services:

• Counselling Services: Provides individual counselling, couple counselling, family counselling, problem gambling…
• Chinese Help Lines : Provides informational and emotional support via Cantonese and Mandarin telephone help lines
• Youth Programs: A multi-model approach to facilitate personal growth
• Multicultural Early Childhood Development / Multicultural Family Resource Centre Programs: Provides services for families with children under 6 years old in the Tri-cities area
• Family Life Education Programs: Provides workshops, courses and cross cultural training to the Chinese community as well as mainstream agencies

Target Population:

• Clients who are primarily of Chinese origin for Counselling Services, Chinese Help Lines and Family Life Education Programs
• Youth Programs serve multicultural youth who are between 13 – 25 years old
• Families with children under 6 years old who reside in the Tri-cities area and are from  Korean, Farsi and Chinese communities for Multicultural Early Childhood Development/Family Resource Centre Programs