EXPRESSION OF INTEREST: Next Steps Project Community Consultation (Live/In-Person/Kamloops/Spring 2025)

BCAPOP was awarded $100,000 from the Community Prosperity Fund to increase its capacity between September 2024 and August 2026 in preparation to operate a bed-based program in Kamloops for perinatal people who have used substances and their infants. This bed-based program will ensure Kamloops participants remain in the community, strengthen the parent-baby attachment, and stabilize the dyad with proven evidence-based, best practice approaches. The outcomes will be reduced child removals that result from a lack of access to a safe and supervised bed-based program, increased capacity of parents to safely care for their children while simultaneously addressing their substance use.

If you are a local professional, helping peer, community member or person with lived/living experience with perinatal substance use and you are interested in finding out more about the Next Steps Project, then please complete this expression of interest to attend one of our community consultations in the spring of 2025.  Once the event details are solidified, you will receive an invite to register.  This expression of interest does not signify a commitment to engage or attend this event.    

Our Board of Directors and team could not be more grateful to the Community Prosperity Fund, BC Interior Community Foundation and the Province of British Columbia for investing in our organization, our community and most importantly, their investment in improving the outcomes for perinatal people and their infants.