Family Service in Mi'kma'ki

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Freeman House, 629 and 641 King Street, and Family Service Association of Western Nova Scotia

Family Service Association of Western Nova Scotia (FSAWNS) leverages structural transformation – at system, community, and intergenerational family levels – to support under-served and over-criminalized youth, families and communities, across diversities of unique experience, rurality and culture. We work to support all youth and families to be included in safe and sustainable communities, and to be contributors to a diverse and thriving region.

At the intergenerational family and individual level, we leverage youth and family knowledge of individual, community and system violations, and skill at responding, to - for example - address the barriers that make it difficult for youth and family access to support and services.

At the community level, we leverage the Government of Canada’s National Housing Strategy, Nova Scotia’s Department of Community Services Prevention and Early Intervention strategy, and Municipal commitment to preventive Coordinated Access in order to - for example - develop a Rural Coordinated Access System in our communities. Coordinated Access live-maps local supports and services as well as system gaps, it standardizes intake and assessment process across local support and services, relies on people-centred data rather than inaccurate organizational profiling of the people we serve, and adopts uniform prioritization policies and coordinated referral processes.

At the system level, we leverage UNICEF’s advancement of #ChildrensRights 0-18, Canada’s #Right2Housing, the Province of Nova Scotia’s commitment to #affordablehousing, and Town of Bridgewater’s commitment to address #energypoverty, to - for example - support and advocate for local achievement of #Right2Housing policy and practice.

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