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Specialized Counselling/Assesment Services (SCAS)
Mandate/Mission
To support families remaining together - to see children raised by their parents in a stable, caring home enviroment. The SCAS offers two programs to facilitate this goal.
Client Group
Assessment and Counselling services are provided to families, with children 0 - 19, who have chronic or complex issues where the child protection risk has not been ameliorated through family preservation or other less intensive programs or single-focussed interventions. Children may be in care, with hope of reunification, or living at home.
Access
| Phone: | 250 983 2344 |
| Fax: | 1888 341 6746 |
| Address: | 209-488 McLean St
Quesnel BC
V2J 2P2 |
| Email: | jdinsdale@xplornet.ca OR qpc09@telus.net |
| Procedure: | All referrals must come in writing from a MCFD child Protection Social Worker |
Services
MCFD social workers may request a Family Assesment that explores a range of factors within a family. The purpose of the assessment is 1)to identify barriers to family stability 2) to identify strengths within the family 3) to develop stratigies/make recommendations that will assist the family to move towards their most positive potential 4)to identify accessible community resources 5) to present the process of positive change as a series of measurable steps and 6) to present this information in a manner that all can understand and implement
MCFD social workers may also request the SCAS program to provide Counselling Services. These would be provided to parents and/or parents/children/families where a clear understanding of presenting issuses already exists, where services are not readily avaliable elsewhere in the community and where this intervention will support efforts to maintain positive family relationships and unity.
Assessment and Counselling service are not provided at the same time to the same family. In some cases Intervention (counselling) may follow Assessment.
Organization Information
| Funded By: | Ministry of Children and Family Development
MCFD |
| Administration: | Jeffrey Dinsdale MSW, RSW
Bruce Landon Med, RCC
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