Family Support Institute BC

06/06/2026

FINAL HOURS to order your raffle tickets in support of FSI!

The raffle closes at 6:00pm, and the winner will be announced at 7:00pm tonight at our Celebration of Families Awards.

Will it be you??

🎫TICKETS: https://fsibc.rafflenexus.com/

How it works: Select "Order Tickets," choose a quantity of individual tickets or ticket packs, place your order, and stand a chance to win 50% of the total jackpot!
All proceeds from the remaining 50% go toward supporting FSI programs.

This fundraiser will be open until Saturday, June 6, 2026, at 6:00pm.

Your support of this fundraiser keeps families in BC connected to free peer support, shared experience, and a community that understands.

ORDER TICKETS NOW: https://fsibc.rafflenexus.com/

Odds of winning are 1 in 2,475 (total tickets for sale) to win a prize. Actual odds depend on number of tickets sold.

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The Family Support Institute of BC (FSI) is a provincial not-for-profit society committed to supporting families who have a family member with a disability. FSI is unique in Canada and the only grassroots family-to-family organization with a broad volunteer base. FSI's supports and services are FREE to any family.

FSI's peer-to-peer model connects families to one of their many volunteer Resource Parents and Peers (RPs) across the province. This network supports families by sharing experiences, expertise, and guidance. This model builds relationships, reduces isolation, and increases individual and family capacity.

ORDER TICKETS NOW: https://fsibc.rafflenexus.com/

06/06/2026

Wow, what a great open we had to our 2026 Training Weekend! This is an event that we look forward to every year at FSI, ever since our first one held 40 years ago on Bowen Island, BC.

At Training Weekend, our volunteers and staff enjoy a weekend getaway together at a peaceful spot in BC, close to nature, sharing meals and knowledge. We reflect and learn together, with the guidance of seasoned mentors, on the best ways to support families, navigate systems, and break down barriers.

This year, we are gathering hybrid for the first time—participants are joining through a mix of in-person and online. Our team is in Kelowna this year. We are having such a wonderful and emotional time together! This gathering is so good for our soul. We are sharing laughter and shedding tears... hearing stories of pain and stories of triumph... embracing the gift of community.

06/05/2026

ONE DAY til the raffle closes and we announce our lucky winner!

The jackpot is up to $3765 already! Will we see $4000 today??

We will not publish the winner's full identity, so don't let that hold you back from getting in the pool!

Final day to get your raffle tickets

🎫TICKETS: https://fsibc.rafflenexus.com/

How it works: Select "Order Tickets," choose a quantity of individual tickets or ticket packs, place your order, and stand a chance to win 50% of the total jackpot!
All proceeds from the remaining 50% go toward supporting FSI programs.

This fundraiser will be open until Saturday, June 6, 2026, at 6:00pm.

Your support of this fundraiser keeps families in BC connected to free peer support, shared experience, and a community that understands.

ORDER TICKETS NOW: https://fsibc.rafflenexus.com/

Odds of winning are 1 in 2,475 (total tickets for sale) to win a prize. Actual odds depend on number of tickets sold.

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The Family Support Institute of BC (FSI) is a provincial not-for-profit society committed to supporting families who have a family member with a disability. FSI is unique in Canada and the only grassroots family-to-family organization with a broad volunteer base. FSI's supports and services are FREE to any family.

FSI's peer-to-peer model connects families to one of their many volunteer Resource Parents and Peers (RPs) across the province. This network supports families by sharing experiences, expertise, and guidance. This model builds relationships, reduces isolation, and increases individual and family capacity.

ORDER TICKETS NOW: https://fsibc.rafflenexus.com/

06/04/2026

Join this accessible online session to learn and share about how local government systems affect and impact people with intersecting identities, and practical solutions to make our communities more inclusive and accessible!
Wednesday June 17, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Register: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/9PZob3BUR2qG1QpF7KcHuw #/

💡Shape Your Community: Local Government and Tools for Change (Online) 🚌🍎

Date: Wednesday June 17, 6:00pm-7:30pm
Where: Zoom

From public transit to housing to food security, city governments make decisions that have daily impact for disabled and neurodivergent people with intersecting identities. As we approach the 2026 local elections, join Women Transforming Cities (WTC) and Live Educate Transform Society for a 90 minute Zoom workshop to learn more about how local government works – and ways to engage that acknowledge barriers to participation. Share your experiences, and brainstorm with others for what you need in your community to thrive, and discuss the issues our local government should prioritize over the next 4 years and beyond.

All community members are welcome. Zoom registration required.

📍Accessibility:
ASL interpretation provided
Presentation will be screen reader compatible
Images from presentation will be verbally described
Access needs check in during workshop
Relaxed environment, can opt in or out of activities
Activities will include:
Large group discussions via chat and voice
Small group discussions of 3-4 people (verbal or non-verbal options)
Participation is encouraged but not required

For more information and accommodations, please contact: Heather at [email protected]

06/04/2026

TWO DAYS til we find out who will get to bring home 50% of the final jackpot amount!

Have you gotten in on the fun?

Buy your raffle tickets now before it's too late!

🎫TICKETS: https://fsibc.rafflenexus.com/

How it works: Select "Order Tickets," choose a quantity of individual tickets or ticket packs, place your order, and stand a chance to win 50% of the total jackpot!
All proceeds from the remaining 50% go toward supporting FSI programs.

This fundraiser will be open until Saturday, June 6, 2026, at 6:00pm.

Your support of this fundraiser keeps families in BC connected to free peer support, shared experience, and a community that understands.

ORDER TICKETS NOW: https://fsibc.rafflenexus.com/

Odds of winning are 1 in 2,475 (total tickets for sale) to win a prize. Actual odds depend on number of tickets sold.

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The Family Support Institute of BC (FSI) is a provincial not-for-profit society committed to supporting families who have a family member with a disability. FSI is unique in Canada and the only grassroots family-to-family organization with a broad volunteer base. FSI's supports and services are FREE to any family.

FSI's peer-to-peer model connects families to one of their many volunteer Resource Parents and Peers (RPs) across the province. This network supports families by sharing experiences, expertise, and guidance. This model builds relationships, reduces isolation, and increases individual and family capacity.

ORDER TICKETS NOW: https://fsibc.rafflenexus.com/

06/04/2026

For generations, First Nations children were taken from their families, communities and cultures through the Indian Residential School System rooted in forced assimilation and cultural elimination. As Chief Commissioner of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada, the Honourable Murray Sinclair helped lead a historic process of truth-telling by listening to the experiences of thousands of Residential School Survivors across the country. In 2015, the Commission released the landmark TRC Final Report and its 94 Calls to Action to redress the legacy of residential schools and advance the process of reconciliation. This National Indigenous History Month, we recognize the Honourable Murray Sinclair’s lifelong commitment to justice, truth, and reconciliation, and reaffirm our shared responsibility to continue advancing the Calls to Action.

Photo by TBNewsWatch

06/04/2026

Last chance to register to attend Family Support Institute's 2026 Annual General Meeting (AGM) happening tonight, June 4, 2026, at 6:30 pm.

Register now: https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/GBL0lnMkRF-Gj8mhpug_Pw

All are welcome to attend and hear about FSI's year in review; only attendees with an up-to-date FSI membership and who have a family member (related by blood, marriage, common law or adoption) with a disability, or are a person with a disability themself, will be eligible to vote in the AGM.

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Want to become an FSI Member so you can vote in next year's AGM?
Become a Member: https://familysupportbc.com/membership/

06/03/2026

Pride started out as a protest.

And in many, many countries around the world, it still is today. It is still illegal in many cities, and still, humans do not back down. That does not mean a lack of fear. Q***r people are ESPECIALLY scared for their lives right now. But it means, in spite of the fear, humans refuse to stay silent and invisible in the midst of oppression.

Pride is a celebration, but it didn't begin that way.

Pride started as a movement for safety, dignity, and equal rights. Many of the people who helped lead that fight were q***r and trans people who were also Black, Indigenous, racialized, poor, or otherwise pushed to the margins.

At its heart, anti-racist parenting is about helping children become more fully themselves, not less.

To know who they are, love who they are, and understand that other people deserve that same freedom.

When children feel secure in their own identity, they are less likely to fear, judge, exclude, or try to suppress people who are different from them. Children who don't feel the need to shrink themselves to belong are less likely to try to make others shrink themselves too.

As parents, our job isn't to make our children conform to the norm. It's to help them become fully themselves while teaching them not to fear, diminish, or silence others who are doing the same.

The fight for 2SLGBTQIAA+ rights is deeply connected to the fight for racial justice. Black, Indigenous, and racialized q***r and trans people continue to experience unique barriers and forms of discrimination, both within society and sometimes within 2SLGBTQIAA+ spaces themselves.

So this Pride Month, let's celebrate 2SLGBTQIAA+ joy, perseverance, culture, and community, while continuing the work to ensure that safety, dignity, belonging, and human rights extend to everyone.

Because every person deserves to be safe, valued, and free to show up as their whole self.

***rJoy

06/03/2026

FSI will be closed over the next four business days while staff and volunteers participate in the annual FSI Training Weekend:

Thursday, June 4 and Friday, June 5
Monday, June 8 and Tuesday, June 9

> If you experience an emergency during this time, please call 911 immediately.

> If you experience a mental health crisis, please call or text the Su***de Crisis Helpline at 988.

> For non-emergencies, you can call 811 for health information and advice in BC.

> Indigenous families can access culturally competent support by contacting Hope For Wellness, available 24/7.
Phone: 1-855-242-3310
Online Chat: https://www.hopeforwellness.ca/

>If you have an urgent matter involving CLBC, please contact your CLBC Facilitator.

>If you have an urgent matter regarding the Ministry of Children and Family Development, please contact your MCFD social worker.

>Urgent FSI-related matters relayed to the Executive Director or FSI Office may only be responded to intermittently.

06/02/2026

The venn diagram has a LOT of overlap!
Pride was built by Black and Brown and Indigenous people. Pride was also built by the kink and leather communities, which overlaps heavily with various disability communities due to the radical acceptance of body diversity.