Life Skills for Youth provides resources and parenting support to parents who have children with special needs and have diverse abilities.
The program delivers life skills education to youth 13 through 18 years of age who are diversely abled or with special needs. encouraging and creating varied opportunities to live a more independent and socially active lifestyle.
It’s all about appreciating and empowering the youths and their families!
Raising a child or a teen who has diverse abilities or special needs can be very overwhelming and requiring extra support to maximize the quality of their family life.
The Life Skills Program, at Family Dynamix, provides that extra professional support services for the special needs youth and their families. It is for encouraging and creating varied opportunities for our youths with diverse abilities, to live a more independent and socially active lifestyle; for their families to gain more knowledge and tools in supporting their youth and helping them build a new network of support; and giving an opportunity to the community to understand these youth better and integrate them with empathy, into the folds of its cultural fabric.
It is an exciting opportunity for youth with diverse abilities to connecting with each other and their community. It also gives the parents a platform to get to know other parents whom they have things in common.
Key Resources
Youth are referred to this program through:
Patricia Braniff
Child & Youth Special Needs Social Worker
Ministry of Children and Family Development
Golden, BC
Phone: 250-344-7773
Fax: 250-244-7592
Email: Patricia.Braniff@gov.bc.ca
Contact Youth Life Skills Worker, Family Dynamix for more information:
250-342-5566
