Reimagining FamilySupport Services: Perspectives from Kinship Caregivers

Prepared by : Shari Monsma, Gail Molliet, Barbara Lee, Choi Shan Ng, Kyle Turone, Kolbe Neva and Maddie Cathcart Kinship caregivers play a vital role in supporting children and youth who cannot live with their parents, providing stability, cultural connection, … Read More

Reimagining Family Support Services: Listening to Kinship Caregivers

Fairness for Children Raised by Relatives (F4CRR) teamed up with UBC’s Centre for the Study of Services to Children and Families (CSSCF) to host a webinar on October 30, 2025 called Reimagining Family Support Services: Perspectives from Kinship Caregivers. This … Read More

VIDEO: Practice and Research Together (PART)

We are so grateful for Dr. Barbara Lee (Assistant Professor, School of Social Work; Director, Centre for the Study of Services to Children and Families; Knowledge Exchange and Mobilization (KxM) Scholar) at the University of British Columbia for providing the opportunity for Fairness … Read More

UBC Research Project

Examining Support Needs for Children, Youth and Caregivers in Kinship/Out-of-Care Arrangements This is the first time Fairness has been involved in a research project. The purpose of this research project was to examine the necessary support(s) for kinship/out-of-care families. This … Read More

Recommendations Arising from Research

The following is a list of 26 recommendations that arose 2020 – 2021 State of Kinship Care Research Report Recommendations (A): Provincial Policy Reform That all children being raised in kinship care, regardless of legal status and duration of care, … Read More

The State of Kinship Care in BC

This report is an outcome of a research project funded by: The Victoria Foundation – Adoption and Permanency Fund of BC, and the Law Foundation of BC. The opinions expressed in this document do not necessarily reflect the opinions or … Read More

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