Child and Family Services of Western Manitoba exists
so that children are safe and nurtured in strong, loving families
within a community of caring people.
CFS Western offers a broad continuum of services and programs designed to strengthen families and protect children. Under The Child and Family Services Act of Manitoba, the Agency is funded and mandated to provide protection and preventive services such as intake, child protection, foster care, children in care, family support services and adoption, to Westman children seen to be at risk of neglect and abuse.
However, funding for family strengthening programs, such as those offered through our Elspeth Reid Family Resource Centre and our Rural Prevention Programs, are solely provided by private, public, individual, corporate, community and organizational donors as well as grants and sponsorships. These funders include the Child and Family Services of Western Manitoba Foundation Inc. and the United Way of Brandon and District as well as other community groups such as service clubs and Donor’s Choice.
Our family strengthening programs include (but are not limited to): parenting courses and workshops, parent-child home programs, in-home family support services, early childhood development programs, the Preschool Enrichment Program, the Victoria Day Care Centre, life skills and literacy sessions, new immigrant programs, programs where parents and children learn and play together and much more.
These programs and services would not be possible without the generosity of our community funders. CFS Western also relies on volunteers to help operate many of these family strengthening programs. As well, many of these services are offered in partnership with city and rural school divisions and community organizations all across southwestern Manitoba.
