Surrounded by Cedar Child and Family Services

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• Children and Youth Programs

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  Intensive Youth Support Services provides support to youth ages 12 to 19 in collaboration with their guardian.

  Intensive Youth Support Services provides support to youth ages 12 to 19 in collaboration with their guardian. Assists youth in achieving agreed on time-sensitive goals, connecting with cultural resources in the community, finding shelter, accessing basic needs, and developing independent living skills. Also arranges for mentorship, guidance, and short-term intervention for low- and high-risk youth, including critical incidents where required. Referrals accepted from youth's legal guardian. Lifelong Connections assists in identifying and locating a child's family or other close community member to help facilitate ongoing connection and possible placement where appropriate. Helps search for placements with extended family when a child has been placed in foster care where it is in the best interest of the child. Also helps to facilitate and coordinate out of region and out of province kinship placements if required. Referrals accepted from social workers.

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  • surroundedbycedar.com/intensive-youth-support-services

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  • 211-1497 Admirals Road
    Victoria, BC, V9A 2P8

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• Cultural Programs

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  Provides a range of cultural programs for urban Indigenous children and youth, with an emphasis on children and youth in care, their caregivers, relevant family, and community members.

  Provides a range of cultural programs for urban Indigenous children and youth, with an emphasis on children and youth in care, their caregivers, relevant family, and community members. The Cultural Continuity Worker supports urban Indigenous children and youth in care to build and maintain meaningful connection to their ancestral territories, community knowledge keepers, and sense of cultural identity. XE'XU T'ULUTS'THUT Youth Leadership (Sacred Circle) is a culturally-based leadership program for Indigenous, Metis, and non-Indigenous youth to deepen self-identity, stewardship, and individual growth. Other cultural programming activities include spring and summer break cultural camps, child and youth workshops, coming of age ceremonies, and aging out of care ceremonies.

  Website

  • surroundedbycedar.com/cultural-programming

  Address

  • 211-1497 Admirals Road
    Victoria, BC, V9A 2P8

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• Guardianship and Permanency Services

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  Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) delegated Indigenous agency that supports the well-being of Indigenous children, youth, and families.

  Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) delegated Indigenous agency that supports the well-being of Indigenous children, youth, and families. Social workers provide guardianship services to urban Indigenous children and youth continuing care. As legal guardians, social workers focus on permanency planning, while ensuring that the child or youth's cultural identity is preserved. Connects with other urban Indigenous community resources, service providers, and caregivers to ensure stability and continuity; and when possible, reconnects children and youth to their cultural home community and/or family.

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  • surroundedbycedar.com/guardianship

  Address

  • 211-1497 Admirals Road
    Victoria, BC, V9A 2P8

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