New Resource: The Power of Knowing Each Other
“The Power of Knowing Each Other” is meant to inspire and stimulate people’s thinking about informal safeguards.
Community Living BC and Family Support Institute (FSI) have worked together to create a new safeguards resource, “The Power of Knowing Each Other: Stories about Informal Safeguards told by BC Families”.
This book contains 12 stories plus a forward and concluding story about the creative and unique connections families have built and nurtured with their family members who have a developmental disability. These relationships offer many things, all of which contribute to people living good and safe lives in welcoming communities.
CLBC believes that the best way to keep safe is to have family, friends and people in our lives who know and care about us. Having a personal support network made up of many different people is one of the best safeguards. Support networks are an important informal safeguard. As a book of stories told by families, “The Power of Knowing Each Other” serves as a powerful vehicle for sharing this message about informal safeguards.
Family Support Institute’s connection with families, and their dedication to making sure that families’ voices are heard, has ensured that the book contains authentic, powerful and real stories.
This resource is meant to inspire and stimulate people’s thinking on informal safeguards. The stories bring to the reader wonderful ideas and ways to build supportive networks. These personal stories demonstrate the incredible strength and love family members have for each other and how families have built informal safeguards in community, with their loved ones. Stories from the book will be featured in future issues of The Citizen.
“The Power of Knowing Each Other: Stories about Informal Safeguards told by BC Families” can be viewed and downloaded on the CLBC website under Individuals and Families > Safeguards. If you are interested in requesting a copy of the book, please e-mail info@communitylivingbc.ca.
