Family Focused Practice

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Family Focused Practice

A Family-focused practice is a way of working with families across various service systems to enhance their capacity to care for and protect their children. It focuses on children’s safety and needs within the context of their families and communities and builds on families’ strengths to achieve optimal outcomes.

“Families” can extend much further than a traditional nuclear family. A family-focused practice prioritizes putting the children first and emphasizes keeping children with their immediate family, their extended-family, and within their community. Traditional CFS systems have a long history of apprehension and cultural discrimination. Our Métis CFS System focuses on exactly the opposite and puts the children, youth, families, community, and culture at the forefront of everything we do.