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Family Place Model Expands

Once West Side Family Place was established, word spread, and many parents travelled across Vancouver to this new kind of facility for young families. Enjoying the experience, it wasn't long before parents took the idea back to their own neighbourhoods.  In Vancouver...

Toy Lending Library

In the early days of Family Place, a toy lending library was introduced, and it remains popular! We owe the continued success of the toy library network in BC to the work and dedication of Val Fronczek who sadly passed in 2013. Val had a long and distinguished...

Early Programming…

  When WSFP opened, the goal was to have a place for parents and children to come together in a safe environment, but the founders sought to offer more in the way of programming. The team experimented with many ideas over the decades and some of them stuck while...