Social Return on Investment Study 2022

The BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres is pleased to share the Social Return on Investment (SROI) analysis for the activities of child and youth advocacy centres (CYAC) in British Columbia. Highlights: SROI Study and Outcome Highlights Full report: BC Network of CYACs SROI Analysis Final Report 2022 This SROI study confirms what […]

BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Practice Principles

The BC Network is very pleased to publish the first edition of the BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Practice Principles. This manual is a culmination of hundreds of hours of work put in by the exceptional members of our network and was developed in order to facilitate the consistent practice of child abuse response in […]

2021 Provincial Report

Six of the operational child and youth advocacy centres in BC came together to develop and implement data collection tools to assess how the CYAC model is impacting the response to children and youth who have experience abuse and violence, service to their families and the work of the professionals responding to these cases. Four […]

The BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres is thrilled to have received a recommendation again this year.

August 21, 2020 The Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services released their unanimous report on the Budget 2021 Consultation today. The report is available at: www.leg.bc.ca/cmt/finance The BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres is thrilled to have received a recommendation again this year. “The Committee also heard about the need to […]

BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres makes a budget presentation to the Select Standing committee on Finance and Government Services

June 2020 – Victoria, BC BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres makes a budget presentation to the Select Standing committee on Finance and Government Services Video submission: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOB8WdxoHus Testimonials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ7b1um_Nd4&feature=youtu.be https://youtu.be/5Po0RpKzhOI

The need for operational funding of child and youth advocacy centres in British Columbia.

March 2020 – Victoria, BC BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres finance committee members met with the Ministry of Public Safety & Solicitor General’s Honourable Mike Farnsworth, Deputy Minister Mark Sieben and Assistant Deputy Minister Lisa Anderson for the Community Safety and Crime Prevention Branch to speak about the need for operational funding […]

BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres hosts the Provincial Practices Work Teams on Case Management and Child & Youth Interviewing for a full day of intensive discussion.

January 2020 – Vancouver, BC BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres hosts the Provincial Practices Work Teams on Case Management and Child & Youth Interviewing for a full day of intensive discussion. The work teams are developing practice principles for BC’s child and youth advocacy centres that can be adapted at any centre […]

Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services Report on the Budget 2020 Consultation

From: Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services Report on the Budget 2020 Consultation https://www.leg.bc.ca/content/CommitteeDocuments/41st-parliament/4th-session/fgs/reports/FGS_41-2-2_Budget-2020-Consultation-Report_2019-08-07.pdf The B.C. Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres informed the Committee that unresolved childhood trauma has a profound lifelong impact on children, families and communities, but when treated early, children have the capacity to heal from abuse. Children […]

BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres makes a budget presentation

June 2019 – Vancouver, BC BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres makes a budget presentation to the Select Standing Committee on Finance and Government Services advocating for operational funding for child and youth advocacy centres.  

BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres hosted an in-person meeting of multi-disciplinary professionals from across all operational and in-development CYACs in BC

February 2019 – Surrey, BC BC Network of Child and Youth Advocacy Centres hosted an in-person meeting of multi-disciplinary professionals from across all operational and in-development CYACs in BC to discuss the need for work teams to develop provincial practices for the work of the centres. The 60 professionals spent the day having in-depth discussions […]