ABOUT US
OUR STORY
Every day across this beautiful province, our members deliver high-quality services to children, youth, adults, and families within their communities. The organization that comprise the Community Social Services sector, provide a vast array of diverse, and complex services and programs, guaranteeing that every British Columbian will have access to these services, as they ensure our provinces social, and financial well-being. In fact, nearly every citizen in British Columbia will utilize social services at some point in their lifetime.
Community Social Services Member Range of Services
Our member organizations services are grouped into three main categories:
- Community Living Services: Support services for individuals with developmental disabilities, Autism, or FASD, assisting with daily tasks.
- Indigenous Services: Programs focused on education, employment, health and healing, housing, legal assistance, and support for women, youth, and First Nations and Métis communities and councils.
- General Services: A variety of services such as immigrant support, harm reduction, youth and family services, shelters, housing, food banks, needle exchange programs, language instruction, counseling, family and refugee support.
CSS sub-services include: child and family services, community justice programs, community living services, housing services, immigrant services, indigenous services, women’s services and much more.
Promoting Safer & Healthy Workplaces
The Community Social Services Health and Safety Association of BC (CSSHSA) is composed of over 2,500 member organizations, all integral to the Community Social Services (CSS) sector. Our mission is to foster and promote safer and healthy workplaces for the CSS sector in British Columbia.
What started as a pilot project, and a joint undertaking of The Federation of Community Social Services of BC, Community Social Services Employers’ Association of BC (CSSEA), Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA) and WorkSafeBC under the auspices of the Innovation and Sustainability Roundtable, has now become an independent, non-profit with the support of the CSS sector.
CSSHSA provides support and delivers health and safety information, education, and resources to employers and employees (unionized and non-unionized) of our membership. We engage the CSS sector to implement best practices in health, safety and well-being. We continue to build industry partnerships to improve the health and safety culture of the sector.
The Federation of Community Social Services of BC
A group of social services organizations whose goal is to influence decision making to improve the well-being of communities.
Community Social Services Employers’ Association of BC (CSSEA)
The accredited bargaining agent for its members and negotiates three sectoral collective agreements on their behalf. CSSEA is responsible for coordinating labour relations and human resources activity for the community social services sector for a sustainable, resilient and robust workforce.
Community Social Services Bargaining Association (CSSBA)
The bargaining agent representing over 15,000 unionized community social service workers in B.C.
WorkSafeBC
A provincial agency dedicated to promoting safe and healthy workplaces across B.C. It partners with workers and employers to save lives and prevent injury, disease, and disability.