Are you looking for more information on how you or your organization can help Fairness for Children Raised by Relatives Society (FCRR) to mobilize and advocate for systemic changes to ensure all children are receiving adequate supports? Here is some information to get started.
Access to post-secondary education expanded for former youth in care
Great news! On Tuesday March 14th, the province of BC announced that former youth in care in B.C. of all ages will have their tuition waived for post-secondary education. Read the full press release… Fairness for Children Raised by Relatives … Read More
Giving Kinship Care a Voice
Wednesday, February 22, 2023 – 10:30 -12:00 Pacific Time Sponsored by Advocacy, Canadian Federation of University Women and Fairness for Children Raised by Relatives this webinar will provide an overview of Kinship Care, an update on progress to date and … Read More
Submission to MCFD (August 2022)
In June and July of 2022, Fairness for Children Raised by Relatives Society collaborated with the Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD) to organize special meetings for Kinship Caregivers to provide input into the Family Services Legislative Reform. The … Read More
2023 Budget Consultation
President of Fairness for Children Raised by Relatives presented at the Province of BC’s Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services Budget 2023 Consultation in June 2022. Here is her submission: Good afternoon my name is Shari Monsma and … Read More
Let your voice be heard!
British Columbia is reforming child and family service legislation, and MCFD is calling for engagement from First Nations, Inuit, and Métis persons, community organizations, social sector service providers, and other individuals with lived experience with child and family services. And, … Read More
Be part of a video documentary
Megan Wilde is a UBC graduate student in journalism and mother of three from Texas. For her final MJ project, she would like to produce a video documentary about kinship caregivers in B.C. She is looking to connect with kinship … Read More
Advocacy at work!
The new Fairness for Children Raised by Relatives Society has its first win in its attempt to improve the supports for all of our children. This is a good example of our grassroots advocacy at work. Families may be eligible … 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
Write to your MLA!
Below find a sample email to MLA’s that Fairness for Children Raised by Relatives (FCRR) is encouraging grandparents and other kinship caregivers to consider mailing It refers to a submission that Fairness for Children Raised by Relatives wrote about a … 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
Submission to the 2022 Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services
FCRR submitted the following document to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services today. “Our organization was formed to advocate for children who would otherwise be in the BC provincial foster care system if they had not been … Read More