Our Services

Family Support Service offered by the Yellow Thunderbird Lodge are designed to:

keep families together
keeping families out of the child protection system
creating safe environments and interventions for families by minimizing safety and risk issues.

Yellow Thunderbird Lodge offers 6 Family Support Service Programs available to Member First Nations from the organization. Each program offers service planning that will work with families and children who are trying to keep their children out of child welfare care, trying to have their children returned to their care and/or repatriation of children to return to their families/community.

Community Based Prevention Services:

All Prevention Services requests must identify who the request will benefit from the following ISC Prevention Funding Criteria: Children in Care Children at-risk Repatriation/Reunification of Children Enhanced Community Based Prevention…

YTCCFS Community Based Prevention Principles

Principle 1: The community-based approach fosters trust and positive relationships among First Nations practitioners, community members, community participants, funders (YTC CFS, prov/feds), and First Nations evaluators and should be constantly…

First Nation Family Placement Program

The First Nation Family Placement Program is essentially a long-term development project that will serve to strengthen the safety & well-being of First Nation children, families & Nations in their…

Program Advocate/System Navigations Program

Our main responsibility is Court support and advocacy. We will work to protect Member First Nations children’s and families’ rights, freedoms and interests according to the will and purpose of…

Non-Transferred Support Program

We can offer support to Member First Nation families who have children in care with MSS. We can assist to bring a review of the family situation and assist to…

Family Support Technical Information Program

Research, develop and sustain information for First Nations children, family and community awareness on various supports, information and services. Facilitate information and provide resources for children, families and community members.…

Family Enhancement Program

Family enhancement services will provide early intervention and or prevention to families at risk while remaining within the community. This is done by informal visiting through interacting with the family…

Community & Family Connections Program

The Community and Family Connections Program is to prevent the further involvement with the child protection systems, to increase support for the families and children. Contributing to the safe and…