Family Friend

Be A Family Friend

Safe Families is committed to supporting parents and bringing love and healing into families that are often isolated and alone.

By becoming a Family Friend, your mentoring relationship becomes the cornerstone of healthy living and healing as you support and strengthen a struggling family so that they may thrive.

Responsibilities of a Family Friend may include, but are not limited to:

  1. Providing friendship
  2. Listening when a parent wants to talk
  3. Providing encouragement when a parent needs a little extra support
  4. Sharing helpful information about parenting and life in general
  5. Connecting needy parents to a vast resource network of services and items available at minimal cost.
  6. Supporting parents with children placed with Host Families
  7. Advocating with/for families seeking the proper academic setting, mental and physical health opportunities and other resources for their children.

Family Friends are trained volunteers that are supported by a network of resources that includes: community development organizations, schools, clinics, counseling and churches.

Mission Statement

Safe Families Canada is creating a world where children are safe, and families are together.  With over 300,000 children and youth in Canada living in vulnerable families and at risk of abuse and neglect, SFC is on a mission to transform families and ensure that no family will face a crisis alone. Volunteers, known as the Circle of Support, are motivated to practice biblical hospitality, disruptive generosity and compassion fuelled by mercy.  Host Families, Family Friends, Family Coaches and Resource Friends support families in crisis while they get back on their feet.

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