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What We're About!
(Our Mission)
By encouraging healthy patterns of living, Pacific Centre Family Services enhances and promotes the quality and dignity of life of individuals and families within our diverse community.
What We Do!
Pacific Centre Family Services Association is dedicated to maintaining outstanding services for the people we work with through education, counselling and creative programming. We have locations in Victoria, Colwood, Langford and Sooke and feature the following programs:
- Alcohol and Other Drug Program (Counselling and Referrals for Adults)
- Community Outreach Prevention and Education (Support for Youth 5-18)
- Employee Assistance and Fee for Service (Counselling)
- Family Violence Project
- Project Break-Through (Parent/Teen Mediation)
- Project Parent (Intensive Parenting Program)
- Stopping the Violence (Counselling for Women Dealing with Abuse)
- Urgent Short Term Assessment and Treatment (Mental Health Counselling)
- Youth and Child Counselling and Expressive Therapy Program (SAIP)
What About Accountability?
Pacific Centre's operations are administered by an Executive Management Team and are overseen by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of members of the community.
Professionally trained counselling staff includes social workers, counsellors and child, youth and family care workers.
Counselling staff are professionally qualified and/or may also be registered with:
-Board of Registration for Social Workers
-Canadian Counselling Association or BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
-Registered Art Therapists
- Child and Youth Care Association of BC
Pacific Centre utilizes satisfaction surveys in order to fulfill its commitment to effective, efficient services and satisfied clients and staff. Pacific Centre is accredited through C.A.R.F. (Commission of Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities)
- Pacific Centre Family Services Association is a non-profit society registered in 1968 under the Societies Act of British Columbia and serving families and individuals in Greater Victoria.
Our Funders and Supporters
- Ministry for Children and Family Development
- Vancouver Island Health Authority
- Ministry for Housing and Social Development
- United Way of Greater Victoria
- Provincial Employees Community Services Fund
- The City of Langford
- The City of Colwood
- The District of Highlands
- The District of Metchosin
- Victoria Foundation
- Queen Alexandra Foundation for Children
- Telus
- Minerva Foundation
- Status of Women
Pacific Centre Family Services Association gratefully acknowledges the donated time and resources of WebBloom Designs in the ongoing design and development of our website.
