Know Your Community Organizations
This Dawson Creek organization provides food hampers, pantry access, and community meals.
What is St. Mark's Food Bank?
This basic need is addressed by food banks and community meal programs.
What is food security?
Before referring someone, a worker should confirm these to avoid sending them to a closed office.
What are current operating hours?
Listening carefully and trying to understand another person's feelings demonstrates this helping skill.
What is empathy?
A family needs groceries and has limited income. This local organization is one possible resource to explore.
What is St. Mark's Food Bank?
This organization supports people with developmental disabilities to participate in community life.
What is the Dawson Creek Society for Community Living?
This type of housing provides immediate, short-term safety for someone fleeing violence.
What is emergency or transition housing?
This process allows someone to contact an organization for assistance without a professional referral.
What is self-referral?
Protecting someone's private information is part of this professional responsibility.
What is confidentiality?
An adult with a developmental disability wants greater social participation. This organization may offer relevant community inclusion supports.
What is the Dawson Creek Society for Community Living?
This provincial ministry is responsible for child protection and provides services to children, youth, and families.
What is MCFD?
This type of support helps individuals develop independence and participate in community activities.
What is community living support?
This barrier may prevent someone without a vehicle from reaching an appointment during a Dawson Creek winter.
What is transportation?
Supporting people to make their own informed decisions demonstrates this principle.
What is self-determination?
A parent is worried about their child's developmental needs and wants family support. This organization is one potential referral option, depending on program eligibility.
What is Axis Family Resources?
This organization provides family and community supports, with some programs requiring referrals from MCFD or CLBC.
What is Axis Family Resources?
This INS program was identified in the student research as supporting children and youth with developmental, behavioural, and emotional needs.
What is the Starling Program?
This information determines whether someone meets a program's requirements.
What is eligibility criteria?
Recognizing personal assumptions and remaining willing to learn from different cultural experiences demonstrates this approach.
What is cultural humility?
Someone experiencing family violence needs immediate safety. The worker should prioritize this rather than assume second-stage housing provides immediate emergency shelter.
What is safety assessment and connection to appropriate emergency supports?
This organization offers programs including Starling and B.E.A.R., as described in the student research.
What is Independence Networking Services (INS)?
This type of support helps families navigate multiple services rather than requiring them to coordinate everything independently.
What is service coordination or case management?
A service exists, but its hours, transportation requirements, and intake procedures prevent someone from using it. This illustrates the difference between these two concepts.
What are availability and accessibility?
Focusing on people's abilities, relationships, resources, and resilience rather than only their problems demonstrates this approach.
What is strengths-based practice?
A parent works during food hamper hours and has no vehicle. Before making a referral, a worker should take these steps.
What are discussing the family's needs, verifying service details, and exploring accessible alternatives together?