South Surrey – August 14, 2024 – Join us on Tuesday, September 24, 2024, as we reflect on our past year of service to individuals and families on the mainland, Vancouver Island and Northern BC.
We welcome registrants to invite a friend or family member for an evening of meaningful dialogue and observing our accomplishments over the last year.
For more information feel free to contact: Tina Rasmussen, Executive Coordinator at TRasmussen@SourcesBC.ca or 250.240.1699.
Please check out our websites for information on our programs and events: SourcesBC.ca (Society) and SourcesFoundation.ca (Foundation). We look forward to seeing you on September 24th!
Agenda:
5:00–5:30 PM
Registration and Light Refreshments
5:30–5:40 PM
Welcoming Address – Chief Harley Chappell
5:40–6:00 PM
Sources Community Resources Society Annual General Meeting
6:00–6:20 PM
Sources Foundation Annual General Meeting
6:20–6:50 PM
Keynote Speaker – Dr. Steve Mathias
6:50–7:00 PM
Closing Remarks
Location: White Rock Community Centre – 15154 Russell Ave, White Rock, BC
Dr. Steve Mathias is the co-Executive Director of Foundry, British Columbia’s community-based, integrated health and social service network for young people (12-24 years old) and their families. Steve trained as a psychiatrist at the University of British Columbia and obtained fellowships in both Addiction Medicine (ABAM) and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (FRCPC). In 2009, he co-founded the Inner City Youth Program, the first intensive case management team in Canada to work with homeless youth and later, led the opening of the Granville Youth Health Centre (later re-named Foundry Vancouver-Granville) in 2015. During that time, his proposal to the British Columbia Parliamentary Select Standing Committee on Child and Youth Mental Health led to the funding of the first five Foundry centres. From 2017-18, Steve served as the co-head of the Department of Psychiatry, and Physician Director of the Mental Health Program at St Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver.
Today, Foundry is a provincial network of 18 integrated youth services centres and Foundry Virtual. Each Foundry centre offers an array of health (mental health, substance use, single session brief therapy, physical and sexual health) and social (e.g. peer support, family peer support, and individual placement and support) services. By 2027, it is anticipated that 35 Foundry centres will be in operation across British Columbia.
Dr. Steve Mathias, his partner Leane, and their three teenagers, are settlers on the unceded lands of the Squamish, Musqueam and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations, residing in North Vancouver. They acknowledge that these lands have been home to Indigenous people since time immemorial and they recognize and honour the First Nations, Inuit and Metis people as the stewards of the land, waterways and ocean coasts that they so enjoy.
