Family Support Services Program
The Family Support Services Program or ‘Urban Aboriginal Representative’ (UAR) is responsible to serve status, non-status, and metis people, who reside off reserve and live in the Greater Vancouver Regional District area. The UAR is responsible for offering guidance, case consultations with families faced with systemic barriers in relation with Child Protection, as well as, receive court notification and attend court, provide counseling support, material and human resource referrals, and other voluntary preventative social services to assist the child/families with developing effective, quality plan of care. The UAR will work with the Ministry of Child and Family Development in the ”Best Interest” of the child. For more information contact Heather Aikman at uar@vafcs.org or call: 604-251-4844 ext: 307.
