We Help Build Healthy and Resilient Families
We are a national network of leaders from community-based social service agencies across Canada. Through shared learning and leadership development, we strengthen our organizations to the benefit of Canadian families.
For more than 25 years, Family Service Canada members have tackled some of the most significant and pressing issues, trends, and challenges that face leaders in the nation’s social service sector. By working together, we’re better equipped to develop and deliver the support Canadians need as they face increasingly complex challenges.
Our mission is to promote learning and the exchange of expertise through the dynamic relationships between executive leaders of family-serving organizations in Canada.
Our vision is to be a vibrant network of exceptional family serving organizations building capacity in communities across Canada.
About Family Service Canada
Learn more about who we are, what we do, and how we’re helping Canadians navigate some of the most complex issues of their lives.
Explore Membership
Every new member brings (and gains) knowledge, experience, and insight. Learn more about membership and how you can join.
March 11, 2021 – Virtual Community of Learning Conference
Conference Registration Open!
Family Service Canada’s 2021 Conference explores Leadership in 2021. Join us on March 11 for a one-day online event, including keynote speakers Sacha Médiné and Kendal Netmaker, program presentations from members, and networking. Your agency’s first registration is free. Register additional leaders from your organization for $50 each. Click here to learn more.
Call for Member Presentations
At each Community of Learning Conference, we create space for presentations from member agencies. A benefit of coming together is learning from each other about the good work already happening across Canada.
For the virtual conference on March 11, we’re looking for three agencies to present on internal inclusion initiatives that impact programming, practice, or policy. Presentations should be 20 minutes, including 5 minutes for Q&A.
Criteria include:
- Other Family Service Canada organization could replicate the initiative
- The program promotes transformation at either the organizational or community level
We are also hoping to share a montage of pictures of our work representing hope in our community.
If you are interested in presenting or have an image of work in your community, please send an email to Pauline.Smale@familycentre.org
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I love FSC. The networking, comradery, and intelligence of the members have supported me in making good decisions and positively impacting children and families in our Edmonton community.
Our membership in Family Service Canada has been invaluable. From the leadership development and connection to learning about initiatives across the country to sharing information and intel about granting opportunities, policy and government relations.
Being a member of Family Service Canada has greatly enriched my network of professional connections providing leaders to seek advice from, to learn from and to get support when it is needed. Our Community of Learning initiatives have influenced our local strategies and provided great insights and solid examples of successful service delivery models.
It is truly wonderful to belong to an organization like FSC! Here leaders come together in a spirit of generously sharing their experiences and expertise, all in the service of a common goal to provide exemplary supports to families in need of assistance.
In my experience, FSC has felt like being part of one big family. I’ve appreciated
- being able to connect, share, ask for advice and give advice concerning all the good and less good things that happen in our field of work
- knowing that whatever happens, there is always a “colleague” to listen and help
- experiencing continuous enrichment through COLs and meetings
Family Service Canada and the network of agencies across the country have been instrumental to me as a community organization leader here in Saint John, New Brunswick. Connecting with like organizations, hearing about tried and true programs and different funding opportunities, and the training and professional development I’ve attained were invaluable. Within the network, I’ve felt very comfortable reaching out to my colleagues when I needed a policy, a template, or just to debrief or chat; these professionals were only an email or phone call away.
It isn’t easy to put into a few words the benefits that Family Services of Peel has gained over the years as a Family Service Canada member. The collective experience, knowledge and intuitive understanding of the issues NGO’s face are shared openly; after all, who wants to continually spend their time reinventing the wheel. It’s great having an encyclopedia of knowledge and experience you can tap into.
The opportunity to work with other family service agency leaders across the country is invaluable. Family Service Canada gives me immediate access to a network of dynamic professionals who share my commitment to supporting families by providing quality programs.
Our organization has benefitted and grown immensely from being a Family Service Canada member through the shared learning and collaboration of programs and ideas! As an Executive Director, I look to FSC for valuable insight into trends impacting our sector and potential areas of program enhancement!
